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Recognize Mental Illness Awareness Week

Students and educators have faced countless, unprecedented hardships over the past two school years. We hope that during this Mental Illness Awareness Week, you’ll incorporate mental health literacy into your work with students. These LFJ resources highlight ways to destigmatize mental illness and feature tips for interrupting harmful school practices, which especially affect Black youth. We all need to be good to ourselves and to each other.

  • Demystifying the Mind
  • Broken and Healing: Normalizing Mental Health Issues in Our Classrooms
  • Black Minds Matter
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Susan Coryat

Susan Coryat has taught English in public high schools for 20 years. She most recently developed and teaches a "Contemporary Connected English Studies" course that focuses on marginalized voices and uses experiential learning at Perkiomen Valley High School in Pennsylvania.
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Leah Patriarco

Leah Patriarco taught for 10 years, starting with preschool and ending with middle school social studies. She has a master’s in Education and Innovation with a focus on building sustainable, social justice-focused schools and recently left the classroom to pursue other ways to address oppression.
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Steffany Sorensen Moyer

Steffany Sorensen Moyer is the program coordinator at Learning for Justice. Prior to joining LFJ, she worked at a public library for several years, and is currently completing her master’s degree in secondary education from Auburn University Montgomery.
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National Suicide Prevention Week

National Suicide Prevention Week reminds us that many people are struggling, including students and educators who need schools and communities to be safer, more accepting spaces. Support young people by helping to create inclusive school environments, speaking up against bias and bullying, and providing information about available resources. Talk about mental health, and encourage the people in your life to reach out for support when needed. We hope these LFJ resources help.

  • Demystifying the Mind
  • Black Minds Matter
  • A Refuge for LGBTQ+ Young People
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Student Tasks

Assess your students with performance tasks and rubrics that measure writing, civic engagement and critical literacy skills. Write to the Source tasks allow students to demonstrate their argumentative, explanatory and
June 28, 2017
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Lisa Ann Williamson

Lisa Ann Williamson is associate editor at Teaching Tolerance. Before coming to SPLC, she worked as a multimedia journalist. Her jobs at newspapers in Iowa, Michigan and New York included covering crime, education, theater and religion stories. Williamson also taught college courses in journalism, literature and interpersonal communication. She graduated from Illinois Wesleyan University with a major in theater and earned her masters at the University of Iowa.
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Michelle Garcia

For the last 12 years, Michelle Garcia has been an educator and policy advisor on issues of social justice and civil rights. In Boston, as Associate Regional Director at the New England Office of the Anti-Defamation League, she worked on anti-bias education and municipal anti-hate programs. Michelle began her career designing and implementing classroom-based interventions for underserved high school students in Southern California, after which she spent five years with the City of Los Angeles Human Relations Commission as a Policy Advisor specializing in youth policy and programs. Over the