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March 20, 2019

Existence Is Resistance: Supporting Student-led Social Change

Students marching together holding a Black Lives Matter sign

As we encourage students to take action against injustice, what are we doing to support them in this work? An educator offers five practical lessons she’s learned in doing just that.

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Rights & Activism

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“Give Light and People Will Find the Way”—Ella Baker

We commemorate this Fourth of July in the shadow of assaults on our human rights and bodily autonomy from those who do not uphold the values of democracy. We recognize that these efforts to strip away our rights are a backlash to positive social justice movements. Let us commit together to the movement for justice and democracy.

‘Selma Online’: Young People Impact the Vote
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A Supremely Historic Moment

July 2, 2022

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Issue 47, Summer 2014

Radical!

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Nine visionaries who changed the way we think about education.

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Home-to-School Connections

Educators who connect their teaching to students’ cultures, languages and heritage create classroom environments that value critical home-school relationships, affirm student identities and challenge stereotypes.

May 26, 2023

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Issue 55, Spring 2017

“Conversations Aren’t Enough”

Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones tells the hard truth about why so many students still attend segregated schools.

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Keep Her Safe: Centering Black Girls in School Safety

[2024] This case study and report by NWLC and SPLC demonstrates how critical insights can come from centering Black girls in the school safety conversation.

May 1, 2024

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December 1, 2014

Talking With Students About Ferguson and Racism

This teacher believes it’s crucial for white teachers like her to seek out productive ways to talk about race and racism with students.

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 58, Spring 2018

Every Student. Every Day.

Ron Stahley looks back on a career that took him—and his district—where the students needed to go.

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Issue 60, Fall 2018

Strong Connections

Knikole Taylor explains how technology can be a tool for equity and community.

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September 9, 2015

Names Do Matter

The start of the school year is an important time to remember that names have meaning—whether they belong to monuments, mountains or to your own students.

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Rights & Activism

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