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Digging Deep Into the Social Justice Standards: Identity
In the first PD Café in our series about the LFJ Social Justice Standards, learn how to help your students dig deep on the concept of identity.
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Sensible Consumers
As children use digital media with increasing frequency, advertisers who work with digital platforms continue to understand kids as an ideal target audience. Among other things, this means it is important to help children learn to read online ads sensibly and critically.
September 25, 2017
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Toolkit for ‘The Opioid Crisis’ and Trauma-Sensitive Practices
Students who experience trauma often exhibit behaviors we associate with defiance, indifference or attention-deficit disorders. This toolkit and additional resources can help us overcome those assumptions and respond to such behaviors in trauma-sensitive ways.
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Self-care Can Be Social Justice
Self-care is critical for all educators. But for BIPOC educators, it can be a first step toward self-sustaining, anti-racist practices in schools.
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What Critical Race Theory Is and What it Means for Teachers
Education law and policy expert Bob Kim answers some key questions for educators about these so-called “anti-critical race theory” laws and what’s really going on.
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Maj Britt Theorin
“Maj Britt devoted her life to solving some of the most critical and intractable problems in the world today: peace, women’s rights and especially, nuclear disarmament.”
August 8, 2017
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
In this passage from the autobiography, Jacobs describes her life as a teenager in the household of her enslaver. She describes the sexual advances of her adult male enslaver, as well as the jealousy and ire of her adult female enslaver those advances caused.
January 6, 2018
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Voting and Democracy Grants Roundup: High School
TT Voting and Democracy Grants fund projects that encourage students to become empowered advocates for voting in their communities. Here are a few of our favorite projects happening this fall in high schools across the country.
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Survey Questions Where is your school or district located? Which of these best describes your work setting? Elementary school Middle/intermediate school High school Ungraded/Alternative school Comprehensive (K–12) school
April 23, 2019
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Hate at School: March 2019
Hate incidents last month included threats and even violence. We’ve got to do better.