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Appendix A: The Social Justice Standards
The Social Justice Standards are a road map for anti-bias education at every stage of K-12 instruction.
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Recognizing Caregivers as Funds of Knowledge
When educators take the time to build and sustain engagement with students’ caregivers, they illustrate social justice in action, showing students that their identities and living situations are valuable and worthy of understanding.
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Engagement With Community Interests and Concerns
When students witness activist resistance to injustices in their own communities, it helps them better understand a core component of social justice education.
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Inclusion of Community Wisdom
Partnerships with community organizations can help extend classroom activities, provide additional support for students’ needs and add new perspectives to teaching material—all while sending the message that communities are valuable learning resources.
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Home-to-School Connections
Educators who connect their teaching to students’ cultures, languages and heritage create classroom environments that value critical home-school relationships, affirm student identities and challenge stereotypes.
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Family and Community Engagement
Educators are not alone in the work of social justice education, and families and community members can be strong advocates and teachers as well.
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Student Leadership
Educators and other adults can help students develop their leadership skills in a variety of ways, from preparing students for formal leadership positions to supporting student-driven actions for social justice.
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Collaboration and Building Alliances
Building alliances is about working together, giving and receiving support, and creating a sounding board for social justice planning.
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Creating and Upholding Just Systems
Social justice leadership includes regularly assessing and improving systems and structures that promote student well-being and equity—in both experiences and outcomes.
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Self-Awareness and Cultural Competency
Cultural competency—the ability to work effectively and sensitively across cultural contexts—involves learning, communicating and connecting respectfully with others regardless of differences.
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