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November 28, 2016

The Students Have Spoken

Last week, we posed a question to students via their teachers: What advice would you give to the new president? Their thoughtful responses blew us away.

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Rights & Activism

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March 19, 2015

Confronting Students’ Islamophobia

What do you do when anti-bias teaching strategies are derailed by real, in-the-moment fears? See how one educator responded to Islamophobia in her classroom.

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Religion Bullying & Bias

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Issue 39, Spring 2011

Social Media in the Schoolhouse

Illustration of a small schoolhouse next to a tree

Twitter, Google Docs and their cousins shrink the spaces between cultures even as they expand the reach of a typical classroom. How can you use them to promote social justice?

Topic

Rights & Activism

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Marvin Reed resides in the Bay Area and teaches third grade at Rosa Parks Elementary School in the Berkeley Unified School District. He holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology, a master’s degree in higher education and leadership policies, a Multiple Subjects Teaching Credential and currently is pursuing a doctorate in educational leadership from California State University, Sacramento. He was recognized in 2021 as the Computer-Using Educators (CUE) Emerging Teacher of the Year. He has served as a judge and as a leadership clinician with many prestigious marching band programs around the state

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Issue 61, Spring 2019

Reading Together

Illustration of several people reading books, superimposed over various houses and top of a large book.

How one group of parents created space for their children to learn, think and teach about social justice.

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Issue 63, Fall 2019

Authors of Their Own Stories

Several student-created books on a table, with the top one opened to a page featuring a drawing of a person of color named Sienna.

When these students wanted to see themselves in the books they read, their educators helped them do something about it.

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What is a Hate Crime?

This lesson leads students to analyze the nature of hate and explore legislation that addresses hate crimes.

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3-5 6-8

Subject

Reading & Language Arts

Civics

July 11, 2017

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Issue 5, Fall 2023

Civics for Democracy

Illustration of Fanni Lou Hamer's quote "Nobody's free until everybody's free."

LFJ Director Jalaya Liles Dunn contends that civics should “represent the agency and change of each generation, demonstrating the needs of the time and how people showed up for the collective good.”

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Issue 66, Spring 2021