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Humanity, Healing and Doing the Work
Honoring our collective humanity will result in an education system in which all children thrive.
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Social and Emotional Support
Research shows that students need to feel physically and emotionally supported to learn, but culture, climate and social emotional learning must focus on more than just empathy, kindness and inclusion.
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Where Do We Go From Here?
LFJ Director Jalaya Liles Dunn explains that "Education is not merely a way of upward mobility for the individual, it is a way of collective movement."
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Closing the Diversity Gap
New research sheds light on how to inspire, recruit and retain teachers of color.
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Toolkit for "What Is White Privilege, Really?"
This toolkit offers advice, activities and further reading suggestions for educators who want to unpack the concept of whiteness and white privilege with themselves and with students.
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To Sustain the Tough Conversations, Active Listening Must Be the Norm
We have to prepare students—and ourselves—to communicate, question and work our way through a disconnect when the outside world spills into the classroom.
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Partnering With Families to Support Black Girls
Educators can take specific actions to make schools more supportive spaces for Black girls, whose trauma is often overlooked.
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Appendix B
LGBTQ Historical Figures The erasure of LGBTQ figures from our history books and classrooms does a disservice to students on three fronts: 1) It introduces bias into our studies, providing an incomplete and unfair
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Why “Both Sides” of a Story Aren’t Enough
Students are capable of processing complex narratives; we just need to give them the tools.
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Self-Care in the Movement
Being healthy and nurturing ourselves enable giving that stems from general well-being and overflow.