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Expanding Expectations for Students
This teacher wanted to empower her female students through literature. She boosted all students’ reading skills and self-confidence in the process.
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Centering Black Girls in School Safety
School hardening policies—such as the presence of police and security, metal detectors, and harsh discipline codes—contribute to a criminalization culture in schools and students being pushed out of classrooms and into the school-to-prison pipeline. For Black girls, this criminalization culture causes serious additional harms.
- Keep Her Safe: Centering Black Girls in School Safety
- What Is the School-to-Prison Pipeline, and How Do We Dismantle It?
- You Are Welcome Here
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Student teachers in Washington state experiment with multicultural science
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The Origins of Lynching Culture in the United States
Paula Gidding, a professor of Africana studies at Smith College, discusses the history and origins of lynching.
November 3, 2015
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Heritage Months: Hard to Handle?
Heritage months offer opportunities to model yearlong inclusive teaching practices.
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'Persepolis' in the Classroom Led to Understanding
Persepolis helped make the case for open discussion and books reflecting a variety of cultures.
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Dockery: The Life and Times of Oliver Hart Dockery—A Colored Narrative
An excerpted biography of a colonel from 1888 that shows how views about race evolved for some while racism persisted.
December 14, 2017
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What We're Watching
Dim the lights and get ready to learn with these LFJ-approved films!
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Frederick Douglass Describes Enslavers
In this specific passage, which comes from the book’s first chapter, Douglass describes his enslavers. The passage focuses on Douglass’s memory of his first encounter with the brutality of his enslavers.
January 6, 2018