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Issue 39, Spring 2011

Social Media in the Schoolhouse

Illustration of a small schoolhouse next to a tree

Twitter, Google Docs and their cousins shrink the spaces between cultures even as they expand the reach of a typical classroom. How can you use them to promote social justice?

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Rights & Activism

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November 14, 2011

2011 Teaching Tolerance Award Winners

Teaching Tolerance recognized five outstanding educators with the first-ever Teaching Tolerance Award for Excellence in Culturally Responsive Teaching on Dec. 9th in Washington, D.C.

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Issue 18, Fall 2000

Healing Waters

An Oregon educator breaks the logjam of environmental conflict.

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Marvin Reed resides in the Bay Area and teaches third grade at Rosa Parks Elementary School in the Berkeley Unified School District. He holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology, a master’s degree in higher education and leadership policies, a Multiple Subjects Teaching Credential and currently is pursuing a doctorate in educational leadership from California State University, Sacramento. He was recognized in 2021 as the Computer-Using Educators (CUE) Emerging Teacher of the Year. He has served as a judge and as a leadership clinician with many prestigious marching band programs around the state

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December 29, 2017

17 Good Things That Actually Happened In '17

Woman's March of January 2017 | David Moriya | 500 Pens

In a year when hate thrived, we thought it was important to remember some of the good things that happened in 2017.

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Issue 61, Spring 2019

Reading Together

Illustration of several people reading books, superimposed over various houses and top of a large book.

How one group of parents created space for their children to learn, think and teach about social justice.

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Issue 63, Fall 2019

Authors of Their Own Stories

Several student-created books on a table, with the top one opened to a page featuring a drawing of a person of color named Sienna.

When these students wanted to see themselves in the books they read, their educators helped them do something about it.

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Issue 57, Fall 2017

You Spoke, We Listened

Our latest magazine issue, a brand-new guide for serving English language learners and posts about school choice have inspired a lot of dialogue with our readers.

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What is a Hate Crime?

This lesson leads students to analyze the nature of hate and explore legislation that addresses hate crimes.

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3-5 6-8

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Reading & Language Arts

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July 11, 2017

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Issue 5, Fall 2023

Civics for Democracy

Illustration of Fanni Lou Hamer's quote "Nobody's free until everybody's free."

LFJ Director Jalaya Liles Dunn contends that civics should “represent the agency and change of each generation, demonstrating the needs of the time and how people showed up for the collective good.”

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