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Then and Now
Will the Supreme Court outlaw purposeful integration of our schools?
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Advocate for BIPOC Mental Health This Year
It’s essential that educators, students and the entire school community work to reduce stigma associated with mental health issues, especially during Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) Mental Health Month. Help interrupt school practices that disregard mental health—particularly for Black youth, who are less likely to receive adequate mental health care. Use these webinars to understand and practice self-care and address challenges students face.
- Black Minds Matter
- Student Mental Health Matters
- The Value of Educator Self-Care
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Ending Curriculum Violence
Yes, curriculum can be violent—whether you intend it or not. Here’s what it looks like and how you can avoid it.
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Write to the Source
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Small Moment asks students to demonstrate their narrative skills when writing about personal experiences.
July 19, 2014
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Talking With Students About #JusticeForLucca
The news—and disturbing footage—of police officers assaulting an unarmed black teenager in Florida last week shines yet another spotlight on the dangers black youth face every day. Your students have likely seen the video and conversation surrounding #JusticeForLucca. These resources will help you understand how this violent footage can affect students, how to discuss this news with them and how you can bring #BlackLivesMatter into your classroom.
- Don't Say Nothing
- Why Teaching Black Lives Matter Matters | Part I
- Living With the Bear
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Jim Crow, Lynching and White Supremacy
Episode 4, Season 3 Jim Crow was more than signs and separation. It was a system of terror and violence created to control the labor and regulate the behavior of Black people. In this episode, historian Stephen Berrey
September 22, 2020
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Uplifting Accurate and Inclusive Education
In the latest issue of Learning for Justice magazine, a Black Alabama teenager recounts the damage an education that is neither accurate nor inclusive has caused in her life.
- It Has Stayed With Me
- Black Minds Matter
- Ask, Investigate and Advocate
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Walking in Their Shoes: Using #BlackLivesMatter to Teach the Civil Rights Movement
Episode 16, Season 3 The civil rights movement offers critical context for understanding the systemic police violence, voter suppression efforts, ‘law and order’ rhetoric and criminalization of activism we see today. It
April 13, 2021
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Wings of Witness
A 7th grade Holocaust history project evolves into a memorial sculpture.
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Student Plays Get Discussion Rolling on Race
I do a lot of things in my classroom to teach, manage and assess my students. Countless assignments, procedures and projects are designed to keep the academic machinery of my classroom running smoothly. But when I want to know what my students really think about the world, I ask them to write a play.