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Let's Talk! Discussing Whiteness

In this interactive webinar, we'll discuss whiteness as a racial identity with the understanding that acknowledging whiteness and the privilege and power attached to it is a necessary step in working toward racial justice.

October 25, 2016

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Equity Matters: Understanding Equity Literacy

The final webinar in the Equity Matters series will address how to move from a deficit-based approach to an equity-literacy framework for meeting the needs of students and families experiencing poverty.

Topic

Class

February 28, 2017

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Let's Talk! Teaching Black Lives Matter

This sequel to Let's Talk! Discussing Black Lives Matter in the Classroom reviews the education related policy demands within the Movement for Black Lives' platform: Invest-Divest and Community Control.

Topic

Rights & Activism

January 31, 2017

webinar

Equity Matters: Confronting Implicit Bias

The third Equity Matters webinar delves into implicit biases—the subconscious biases we all have that influence how we respond to others.

Topic

Bullying & Bias

February 21, 2017

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One Survivor Remembers

This Oscar-winning documentary presents Gerda Weissmann Klein’s account of surviving the Holocaust as a child. (Available for streaming only)

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Religion Bullying & Bias

Subject

Social Studies

History

June 29, 2017

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Issue 56, Summer 2017

Walking Undocumented

Wildin Acosta will walk across the graduation stage in June—but he almost didn't make it. Read about his incredible journey and the team of student journalists and teachers who helped make it happen.

Topic

Immigration

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Elizabeth Kleinrock

Liz Kleinrock (she/her) is an anti-bias and anti-racist educator of both children and adults, and creates curriculum for K-12 students, specializing in designing inquiry-based units of study. In addition to her work as a classroom teacher, Liz works with schools and companies to facilitate learning for adults that supports anti-bias and anti-racist practices. In 2018, she received the Teaching Tolerance Award for Excellence in Teaching, and in 2019 delivered her TED Talk, “ How to Teach Kids to Talk About Taboo Topics.” In the spring of 2021, Liz released her first book, Start Here, Start Now

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December 12, 2017

Teaching in the Shadow of Trauma

When we teachers get a so-called “problem child” in class, it’s crucial to ask ourselves, “What is causing this behavior to manifest? What is occurring in this child’s life that we can’t see?”

Topic

Class

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Informational

A Law for Regulating Negroes and Slaves in the Night Time

A New York City law from 1731 details the punishments for the enslaved and free black people who are in the streets after dark.

Will. Sharpas and Council

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Slavery

Subject

History

December 13, 2017

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Issue 40, Fall 2011

You Spoke, We Listened

Reader responses: you talk social media, bullying and speaking English.

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