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Inclusive Education for All Our Children

Justice. Equity. Diversity. Inclusivity. These are the foundational principles of a thriving, multiracial and inclusive democracy. Such a democracy is essential in building a more just future for all our children. And to build that future, we need inclusive education to develop understanding of these foundational principles.

  • Tips for Advocating for Inclusive Education
  • The Promise of Inclusive Education
  • Exclusion Is Unconstitutional
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National Standards

Standards Alignment Made Easy At Learning for Justice, we recognize the importance of both rigor and relevance—and we also recognize that content standards are an important tool for many educators. That’s why we’ve
July 24, 2017
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Extreme Prejudice

Extreme Prejudice
Join us and our friends from the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding for this one-hour webinar, and learn try-tomorrow strategies that can help you teach about extremism accurately, responsibly and safely.
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Religion
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Jill Spain

Jill Spain is a middle school language arts teacher in New Jersey. She has earned a bachelor of arts degree in special education and a master of arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. She is the recipient of an Outstanding Lessons Award for a Holocaust lesson for sixth graders, has participated in the “Lest We Forget” study tour to historic Holocaust sites in Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic and is a member of her school’s curriculum council.
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Betsy DeMulder

Betsy DeMulder is the Director of Initiatives in Educational Transformation at George Mason University and visiting scholar with Teaching for Change.
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Clio Stearns

Clio Stearns has been teaching for 12 years, mainly working with elementary school students and focusing on appreciating everyone’s different perspective.
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Plan to Grade Parents Flunks Out

Florida representative Kelli Stargel has proposed a bill requiring the state’s teachers to grade parents of children aged kindergarten to third grade. Stargel suggests parents be graded “satisfactory,” “unsatisfactory” or “needs improvement,” based on whether their children arrive at school well-rested, well-fed and on time with homework completed. Her bill also requires regular communication between parents and teachers.
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Sarah-SoonLing Blackburn

Sarah-SoonLing Blackburn, Ed.D., is Learning for Justice’s associate director for learning in schools. Sarah has experience teaching at both the secondary and elementary levels and in 2011 was named Teacher of the Year at Lakeside Upper Elementary School in Lake Village, Arkansas. As a teacher educator, her areas of focus have included classroom culture, learning environments, and diversity, equity and inclusiveness. Sarah has an M.A. in Social Justice and Education from University College London’s Institute of Education and her doctorate from Johns Hopkins University. She is based out of
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Marco Torres

Marcos Torres teaches and lives in Corona, California. He has taught for nearly a decade and currently teaches 9th-grade Language Arts and AVID at Corona High School. He is also the single-father of Phaedra and Isaiah.