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Starting With Ourselves: Preparing for Tough Classroom Conversations
This school administrator offers recommendations for setting up courageous conversations in the new year, with discussions among colleagues as the first step.
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Art Fosters Healing
This reflection accompanies the feature story " Voices of Columbine." Upon hearing of the Columbine High School tragedy, Virginia Wright-Frierson was affected as a mother and an artist. Further, her cousin, Ellin Hayes
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Tell Us About Your Day: The Significance of a Closing Circle
One elementary teacher explains how she uses closing circles to create a safe, reflective space for students to discuss their days with their classmates and leave school knowing that others care.
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Belonging
Podcast host Erica Young tells of her family’s multi-generational experiences of otherness and the goals of storytelling on ‘Belonging.’
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Educators Resist East Tennessee ICE Raid
Local school, church and nonprofit staff members gathered to protest an immigration raid at a local meat packing plant—and to support the children of detained workers.
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For These New York City Fourth Graders, a Project on Immigration Hits Home
To study immigration with her fourth-grade students, half of whom are from immigrant families, this teacher decided on a class project that went far beyond Ellis Island.
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Celebrating Freedom Means Celebrating Defiance
Given the controversy around kneeling during the national anthem, studying and discussing two landmark Supreme Court cases can provide students with examples of an oppressed group of people who defied authority and won.
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A Message From Our Director
LFJ Director Jalaya Liles Dunn emphasizes that “Teaching an honest history counters a prevailing narrative that denies the real origins of this country and maintains an unjust society.”
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The Bravery of Linda Brown
As we remember Linda Brown Thompson, we must also consider the reality of the world she lived in when, at the age of 9, she became the face of school desegregation.