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Secret Audiotapes of JFK Decrying Civil Rights Violations in Birmingham

This 2005 news segment reports on a recently discovered recording from 1963, in which Kennedy responded to news of police violence against civil rights demonstrators in Birmingham, Alabama.

NBC Learn

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement Rights & Activism

Subject

Civics

History

Geography

July 2, 2014

teaching strategy

Community Inquiry

Readers' Theater

During a readers’ theater, two or more students dramatize a text by reading expressively.

Grade Level

3-5

CCSS

RF.3-5.4, RL.3-5.3, RI.3-5.3, SL.3-5.6

July 13, 2014

teaching strategy

Community Inquiry

A discussion strategy that asks students to infer how a particular author or character from a text would respond to questions and scenarios. Students must defend their conclusions using evidence from the text.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

CCSS

RL.6-12.1, RI.6-12.1, SL.6-12.1, SL.6-12.3, SL.6-12.4, SL.6-12.6

July 13, 2014

student task

Do Something

Identity Artifacts Museum

Students create a display of artifacts to represent aspects of their identities.

Grade Level

K-2

July 13, 2014

article

Issue 54, Fall 2016

Advice From the Experts

TT answers your tough questions. This time, advice on creating a transgender-inclusive school culture and a successful Mix It Up event.

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

publication

Only Young Once: Alabama’s Overreliance on School Pushout and For-Profit Youth Incarceration

[2024] This report details how a narrative of youth crime contributes to overly punitive school discipline, racial disparities, and an expensive youth legal system that is not designed for rehabilitation.

September 12, 2024

article

November 3, 2017

I Can See Russia From My Mouse: Bipartisan Hearings Produce a Nonpartisan Way to Teach About Fake News

This week’s congressional hearings on Russian interference with the 2016 presidential election offer a great opportunity to teach about the larger implications of misinformation: the dismantling of democracy.

webinar

Justice in the Science Classroom

Join Learning for Justice and cohosts from the Smithsonian Science Education Center for a webinar on integrating social justice into your practice as a science educator!

March 9, 2022

article

May 15, 2020

Teaching as Activism, Teaching as Care

I have begun to feel helpless during this time. But I never felt helpless as a teacher.

Topic

Rights & Activism

text

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Bella Abzug

Bella Abzug was a prominent liberal activist and politician in the 1960s and 1970s who championed women’s rights, human rights and the environment.

Learning for Justice Staff

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Class Gender & Sexual Identity

Subject

Civics

History

August 7, 2017

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