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Who's Helen Keller?
Do children's books distort the truth of Helen Keller's life?
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New Program Promotes Safety for Secular Students
Secular Safe Zone helps educators make schools friendlier to non-religious students.
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After San Bernardino
We had a hard conversation at our department meeting today. San Bernardino: What should we say to our community?
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Papalotzin and the Monarchs: A Bilingual Tale of Breaking Down Walls
The day finally arrived when the Great North built a Great Wall to separate itself from the Great South. But would they live to regret it?
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Supporting Students From Immigrant Families
After recent news and photographs from El Paso—of asylum-seeking families held in chain-link, barbed-wire pens—your immigrant students may be feeling afraid, and you may feel unsure how to support them. These resources recommend steps you can take inside and outside your classroom to address injustice and insist on the human dignity of all people, no matter where they're born.
- Call to Action: All Children Deserve to Be Free
- This Is Not a Drill
- Toolkit for "Immigrant and Refugee Children: A Guide for Educators and School Support Staff"
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Teaching About Voter Suppression and the 2020 Election
Voter suppression is not a thing of the past. It’s essential that students learn to identify it in history—and in this current election cycle. Including insight from Carol Anderson, John Lewis and others, these resources can help you teach about the Voting Rights Act, the historic back-and-forth fight for voting rights, the ways voter suppression manifests today and the ways young people are demanding better of the democratic process.
- Teach This: The Voting Rights Act
- The True History of Voting Rights
- Teach This: Texas Students Fight for Their Right to Vote
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Diversifying Classroom Texts
Join antiracist education experts Dr. Sonja Cherry-Paul and Tricia Ebarvia together with Learning for Justice for this thought-provoking webinar highlighting the importance of diversifying classroom texts.
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Applying Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Supports Inclusive Education
Ensuring education is inclusive of young people with diverse needs and abilities takes intentional practice; UDL can help educators design experiences that benefit all students.
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An Open Letter to Ann Coulter
Following a presidential debate in 2012, Ann Coulter referred to President Barack Obama as a "retard" in one of her tweets. Stephens, a 30-year-old man with Down syndrome wrote this open letter to Coulter in response to her hurtful and uninformed comments.
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