Search

text

Visual

Effects in Africa

These images show the negative effects that slavery had on Africa and African people.

Various

Grade Level

3-5 6-8 9-12

Topic

Slavery

Subject

History

January 28, 2020

article

November 28, 2017

Teach This: Navajo Code Talkers, Pocahontas and Andrew Jackson

teacher helping stressed student with computer work

The November 27 Oval Office ceremony honoring Navajo Code Talkers included what has become a highly controversial remark by the president referencing Pocahontas. Use our discussion questions to address this current event—and the history behind it—with your students.

article

November 18, 2016

Teach Standing Rock With Purpose

This educator—originally from North Dakota—shares two reflections that inform how and what she teaches about Standing Rock and the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Topic

Rights & Activism

author

Susan C. Faircloth

Susan, an enrolled member of the Coharie Tribe of North Carolina, is a professor in the Educational Leadership Department at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Faircloth’s research interests include: Indigenous education, the education of culturally and linguistically diverse students with special educational needs, and the moral and ethical dimensions of school leadership.

the moment

FREEDOM TO LEARN NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION—MAY 3, 2023

“Because we know that attacks on knowledge are fueling threats to freedom, and that repression in one place fuels its spread elsewhere, we call for global resistance to all efforts to destroy the vital tools that help us to imagine and create more equitable and inclusive futures for us all.” —African American Policy Forum

Freedom To Read, Freedom To Learn
Debbie Reese on Book Bans and Native Representation
‘Never Again’ Starts With Education

May 1, 2023

article

Issue 12, Fall 1997

Nations Within

American Indian scholar Karen Gayton Swisher envisions effective education for all Indian children.

the moment

Liberation Lit: Book Reviews

Banned Books Week is Sept. 22 to 28, 2024. Learning can help us to resist hate and bias and counter limited narratives that have traditionally excluded diverse perspectives.

Liberation Lit
Reading Together: Books for Children
Reading for Justice: Books for Teens and Young Adults

September 23, 2024

article

Issue 44, Summer 2013

Toolkit for ‘I Am Asian American’

This toolkit accompanies the article “I Am Asian American” and provides professional-development resources to help teachers reflect on their own assumptions and knowledge gaps about Asian Americans and include a variety of Asian American voices in their curricula.

article

Issue 14, Fall 1998