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Teach This: Native American Appropriation at the Super Bowl
This weekend’s Super Bowl offers an opportunity to talk with students about appropriation and identity.
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The Learning Center and Civics for Democracy
Introducing LFJ’s Learning Center, our new online popular education space for everyone (adults, youth and children), offering learning for civic and political action. The Learning Center continues our Community Justice Sites programming in our Southern states and extends our resources to a national audience. This new landing page and menu provides links to our new learning resources and series.
- Our Votes Matter: Action Steps in Planning to Vote
- Civics for Democracy
- The Learning Center
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Witness
What happens when the role of guest and substitute teachers is complicated through witnessing racism, sexism, prejudice or other mistreatment?
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Arabic Spoken Here
Language lessons create common ground in a Detroit elementary school.
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Focus on the Family Goes After LGBT Students
For the last few days, an “educational analyst” for Focus on the Family has been getting a lot of press. She’s been suggesting that anti-bullying efforts that draw attention to the harassment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students are part of a “gay agenda” to “sneak homosexuality lessons into classrooms.”
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Overcoming Cultural Gaps and Digital Divides
Teacher-librarian Amy Hamrick found out the hard way why it’s important to learn about students’ many cultures.
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Let the Freedom Rides Roll Through Your Class
When many students think of buses and desegregation, their minds instantly go to Rosa Parks and the 1954 Montgomery Bus Boycott. But the larger civil rights fight over transportation took place seven years later with the Freedom Rides.
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Where Scholars Disagree: How SCOTUS Influenced the Civil Rights Movement
Scholars are divided on the role of the U.S. Supreme Court in the civil rights movement. This blogger, a history teacher, explains why this debate is a valuable lesson.
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Do You Teach About Ideological Diversity?
Bringing diverse political viewpoints into the classroom is vital in the polarized, echo-chambered world our students inhabit.