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Toolkit for “Reimagining Digital Literacy Education to Save Ourselves”
The digital literacy resources in this toolkit, which can be integrated across all subject areas, are designed to meet present-day challenges in navigating online information and countering online hate.
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Don’t Stop Talking About Gun Violence
We must push for more restrictive gun laws to change the cycle of mass shootings, collective outrage and minimal action.
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Inclusive Education Means Safe, Welcoming Schools for All Students
Schools should be safe and welcoming for all children—on this point responsible adults agree. But currently, discriminatory laws and censorship policies threaten the well-being of children. LGBTQ+ young people and families are being targeted, along with Black, Indigenous and other people of color and members of historically marginalized groups, whose histories and experiences are being misrepresented and erased.
- Social Justice Standards
- A Refuge for LGBTQ+ Young People
- Speak Up at School
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Introduction to Action Planning: Toolkit
This toolkit facilitates an introduction to action planning, offering a structure for planning individual or collective action for change.
August 11, 2024
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“Why Keisha Can't Write”: The Marginalization of Black Student Writing
A writing teacher responds to the famous essay “Why Johnny Can’t Write.”
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The History of African-American Social Dance
Why do we dance? African-American social dances started as a way for enslaved Africans to keep cultural traditions alive and retain a sense of inner freedom. They remain an affirmation of identity and independence. In this electric demonstration, packed with live performances, choreographer, educator and TED Fellow Camille A. Brown explores what happens when communities let loose and express themselves by dancing together.
September 28, 2018
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Exclusion Is Unconstitutional
Acts of censorship in education perpetuated by a small group with concentrated power go against the principles outlined in the United States Constitution.
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Slavery a Positive Good
A speech given by Senator John C. Calhoun in which he argues in favor of slavery, saying that it benefits enslaved people, enslavers and the United States as a whole.
February 20, 2018
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Homegrown Solutions
A resourceful Kansas town adapts to changing demographics.