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September 16, 2020

Teach This: Is Voting a Privilege or a Right? Returning Citizens and Voting

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Reading and discussing an article from The Marshall Project, students learn about voting rights for incarcerated people and discuss questions of voting rights more broadly.

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Rights & Activism

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September 14, 2020

Schools Confronting Racism and Community Pushback: Three Lessons from ‘Sounds Like Hate’

A new podcast offers valuable lessons about fighting racism in schools and communities.

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Rights & Activism

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A Playlist for the Movement

Episode 3, Season 3 Music chronicles the history of the civil rights struggle: The events, tactics and emotions of the movement are documented in songs of the era. From The Freedom Singers to Sam Cooke, historian Charles

September 3, 2020

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August 31, 2020

Educators’ and Students’ Rights During COVID-19

A children’s rights attorney and a policy analyst from the Southern Poverty Law Center explain educators’ rights to workplace safety, students’ rights to education access and what it might take to advocate for both.

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Ability Class Rights & Activism

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August 28, 2020

Resources for Confronting White Nationalism

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Educators can play a critical role in recognizing and addressing white nationalism. Two authors of Western States Center’s toolkit, ‘Confronting White Nationalism in Schools,’ explain how.

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Bullying & Bias Rights & Activism

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August 25, 2020

Teach This: Texas Students Fight for Their Right to Vote

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Use this discussion guide to start a conversation with students about what voter suppression looks like today. Outlining the historical and present-day barriers to voters faced by students at one Texas HBCU, the featured video in this guide helps students recognize voter suppression and see how other young people are fighting it.

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Rights & Activism

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Get Started!

Are you preparing to register future voters in your school community? These recommendations from experts in the field can help you lead safe, inclusive voter registration drives. Best Practices for High School Voter

August 24, 2020

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Beyond the “Master Narrative”

Episode 2, Season 3 Students don’t enter our classrooms as blank slates. When it comes to the civil rights movement, we often have to help our students unlearn what they think they know while we’re teaching them what

August 21, 2020

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August 25, 2020

Supporting Student Voter Registration Remotely

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The continuation of distance learning—and ongoing social distancing regulations in most states and localities—has added obstacles to holding student voter registration drives. But it’s not impossible.

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Rights & Activism

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Professional Development

Help students recognize the value of a diverse democracy in their classrooms, schools and communities. These PD resources include best practices and strategies for building community, tailoring instruction, and engaging

August 17, 2020

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