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An Educator Workshop With Black Children at the Center
An executive director of educational equity explains how her district planned a workshop for Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action—and how you can, too.
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The War on Drugs—Mechanisms and Effects
Mass incarceration is fueled by a highly funded and minimally constrained criminal justice system that traps people branded as “criminals,” even individuals without a criminal record, into a permanent undercaste.
October 13, 2014
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"What Is Being Normalized?"
TT Educator Grants support social justice work at the classroom, school and district level. TT's grant manager caught up with grantee Chris Hass, whose project included families in his students' social justice education.
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Examining Stereotypes in Books
This lesson is intended to help guide children to respond to literature with an eye toward social justice.
July 10, 2017
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Toolkit for "Segregation by Design"
This toolkit suggests ways to use primary sources to help students uncover the realities of segregation and how it was deliberately perpetuated in the United States.
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‘Never Again’ Starts With Education
Mandating Holocaust education in U.S. public schools and simultaneously banning or censoring other “hard histories” is ineffective, disingenuous and further demonstrates the importance of teaching honest history.
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Dr. King’s Global Impact
When I teach lessons about Martin Luther King Jr., I always wonder exactly how students will connect with the events and themes. My adult students are refugees and immigrants from different cultural backgrounds. Some of them were cultural minorities in their countries. Others are experiencing racial discrimination for the first time in the United States.
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Helping Hunter Spanjer Keep His Name
Grand Island Public School District (GIPS) in Nebraska wanted 3-year-old Hunter Spanjer to change his name because they said it violated the school's weapons policy. I am outraged. But more than that, I realize that students like Hunter need advocates.
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Connecting Freedom Summer of 1964 to Today
Young Black organizers who confront oppressive systems have always been met with violence—educators can look at the uprisings of Freedom Summer in 1964 and those in Minneapolis in 2020 for evidence. Despite the pushback they face, Black activists’ work leads to changes in laws and culture. Use these resources to teach about Freedom Summer and highlight how Black people have asserted their agency in efforts to effect policy change in the United States.
- Freedom Wasn’t Free in ’64—and It Isn’t Free Now
- Season of Terror
- Lessons of 1964: The Movement Continues