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Tomorrow Night
After planning for a long time, an enslaved family risks everything to live together and be free.
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Little Rock 60 Years Later
Looking back and looking ahead at the struggle to end segregated education.
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Producing Digital Information
This lesson focuses on what it means to produce digital content and share information using online platforms.
September 25, 2017
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How Online Communication Affects Privacy and Security
In this lesson, students will examine their digital footprints, discuss the positives and negatives of having a footprint, and determine how they can most safely manage their footprints.
October 3, 2017
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Informational
The Thrilling Tale of How Robert Smalls Seized a Confederate Ship and Sailed it to Freedom
This story is the retelling of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery with his entire family in tow. With a plan "as dangerous as it was brilliant," Smalls commandeers a Confederate ship and successfully navigates it out of Charleston's blockaded port and into the hands of the Union army.
July 31, 2018
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Literature
Tomorrow Night
Bibi and her family escape their plantation and journey to a better life.
February 19, 2020
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‘Bibi’ Lesson 1: What Makes Us Who We Are?
In this first lesson in a series of three, students will explore how people are comprised of personal and social identities.
June 2, 2020
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All Students Need Anti-racism Education
Schools across the nation are committing to the all-important work of anti-racism. Schools with predominately white or privileged students should be no exception.
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A Remote Control for Learning
Artist, author and educator Gene Luen Yang speaks with LFJ (formerly Teaching Tolerance) about teaching, comics and the importance of diverse characters.
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Literature
The House on Lemon Street
In 1916, one family battled against the unjust laws aimed at immigrants of Japanese ancestry. In doing so, they lent their own voices to the growing chorus of Asian Americans insisting: "We belong here."
July 13, 2018