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Native American Heritage Month

As Native American Heritage Month comes to a close, be sure to continue incorporating this history in your curriculum and support Native American students year-round. Use these resources to help students contextualize the true history and contemporary issues of Native peoples.

With and About: Inviting Contemporary American Indian Peoples Into the Classroom
Rewriting History—for the Better
Q&A: Native Knowledge 360°

November 30, 2020

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Issue 64, Spring 2020

Digging Deep Into the Social Justice Standards: Justice

Help students recognize both justice and injustice so they can celebrate justice and also call out injustice when they see it.

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March 22, 2019

Land of Freedom: Civil Rights Movement in East Alabama

Several older students in discussion with each other, gathered around two tables with open books on them.

In this high-school, classroom-level grant, students researched the history of the fight for civil rights in their region and shared their findings with their community.

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Rights & Activism

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Among Friends and Neighbors

Many stories people shared with us dealt with difficult moments involving friends and neighbors. Factors that affect how they speak up include how well or little they know each other, how often they interact and how damaging they consider the offense to be.

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Bullying & Bias

July 20, 2009

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Issue 30, Fall 2006

Cooperative Learning

How to help your students talk about race.

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April 28, 2016

Students Jailed for “Disorderly Conduct”

A law fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center details a disturbing pattern: A student is arrested for minor misbehavior, the parents are kept in the dark, and the family finds itself navigating the criminal justice system.

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Ability

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Issue 55, Spring 2017

Pink

A social justice educator comes to terms with his not-so-hidden biases.

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Bullying & Bias

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March 7, 2016

Educating “Those Kids”

After a colleague told her, “I’m not coming back next year,” this teacher reflected on what makes her an effective anti-bias educator.

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March 13, 2017

“But You Don’t Look Like a Muslim”

A student's comment prompted this classroom teacher to initiate an in-depth conversation about Islam, Muslims and Islamophobia.

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Religion

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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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