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Learning for Justice: The Road to 60 Freedom Summer Session
These learning modules center learning to inform our action for liberation and justice in our communities.
August 11, 2024
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Teaching Hard History Podcast Season 2: American Slavery
Season 2: American Slavery Season 2 expands the in-depth look at the hard history and legacy of American slavery to focus on the enslavement of Indigenous peoples. Few, if any, textbooks talk about what historian Andrés
June 17, 2025
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Back to School: Creating a Nurturing School Culture
This back-to-school season, educators, parents and caregivers can commit to partnering to support all young people. A nurturing school culture that prioritizes well-being along with learning is essential for keeping children in school and ending pushout — a critical step in dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline. Building and sustaining relationships in nurturing ways can help to create the sense of safety and support young people need for learning. The effectiveness of these practices increases when combined with strong family, school and community partnerships.
- Creating School Culture That Nurtures Young People
- Education Justice
- Advocating for Public Education
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Civics for Democracy
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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Confronting Ableism on the Way to Justice
To build a society that advances the human rights of all people requires the social justice movement to be intentional in including intersecting identities and diverse equity struggles.
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No Student Is Too Young to Use Their Voice This Election Season
Here are three easy ways to encourage younger students to participate in their democracy.
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One Year After Parkland, A Reminder to Take Pride in Students’ Action
On the anniversary of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, we remember the students and educators we've lost and recognize those who have mobilized their grief into action.
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Whose Renaissance Is It?
These middle-schoolers spent months exploring the bridges that connect their gentrifying community and the barriers that divide it.
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Maya Angelou
This lesson focuses on questions of identity as students read and analyze Angelou’s inspirational poem “Still I Rise” and apply its message to their own lives. Students learn how Maya Angelou overcame hardship and discrimination to find her own voice and to influence others to believe in themselves and use their voices for positive change.
May 3, 2012
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Ramadan
This picture book explains the Muslim holiday Ramadan by answering the 5 Ws: who, what, where, when and why.
July 2, 2014