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LGBT Teachers Need Allies
When LGBT teachers have to live in fear of being outed, their capacity to service students in an authentic way is diminished.
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Building a Community of Upstanders: Planning
In the final installment of the three-part blog series, this Mix It Up coordinator shares how her school plans for the big event
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Exploring Texts Through Read Alouds
Creating Questions to Engage Critically with Texts
This strategy provides tools to create questions that help students engage critically with Perspectives central texts and examine them for issues of power and social inequity. The activities suggested here also encourage readers to bring their knowledge and experiences to the reading of a text.
July 16, 2014
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Close and Critical Reading
Window or Mirror?
This task helps students consider if the text is a window or a mirror through practicing literacy skills and using technology.
April 18, 2016
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Teaching First-Graders About Microaggressions: The Small Moments Add Up
For younger students, understanding that identity-based microaggressions pose a heavier burden than other painful moments is critical to developing anti-racist, empathetic behaviors.
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Teachers of Color Pushed Out: Why I Left the Classroom
This educator explains why she left teaching—and some common reasons why so many other urban teachers of color leave too.
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‘Bibi,’ Complete Sentences and the Stories Students Need
LFJ is proud to introduce our short film, ‘Bibi.’ Here‘s the value it holds for students.
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Not Just a Joke: Understanding & Preventing Gender- & Sexuality-Based Bigotry
This report helps readers identify warning signs that a young person has become susceptible to hateful, male-supremacist ideologies, best practices for responding, and ways to build resilience against manipulation.
December 18, 2024
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Write to the Source
I'll Be the Judge
I’ll be the Judge asks students to demonstrate their argumentative and comparative writing skills.
July 19, 2014