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Designing Their Own Black Future
How Black students in a predominately white town are using their voices to lift their community.
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The Digital Literacy Universe
Episode 1 Digital citizens need digital literacy. But what does this mean, and how is it different from traditional media literacy? Experts Matthew Johnson and Shana White map the landscape and give critical advice to
November 7, 2018
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Recovering and Teaching Local History
Local history has a profound effect on our communities. It’s up to educators to learn and teach students about the hard history in their own backyards.
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Connect Voting Rights History to Current Policies and Discourse
Uncovering the honest history of voting rights in the U.S. is crucial to create an inclusive society and realize the democratic ideals expressed in the Constitution.
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Social Justice in Science Class
In science classes, we teach students to think carefully about the relationship between observation and hypothesis. Let’s encourage them to use that thinking to create a more just world.
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How Culturally Responsive Lessons Teach Critical Thinking
Rigor and cultural responsiveness are not mutually exclusive.
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Race and Ethnicity
Racial bias—of all sorts—is the most common driver of incidents, making up 33 percent of the number reported by educators and 63 percent of those reported in the news media. Black students are the ones targeted in an
May 1, 2019
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Lies My Bookshelf Told Me: Slavery in Children’s Literature
Children’s books are a common way to introduce the topic of slavery to our youngest students. But what do we do when the stories get it wrong?
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“We Are Our Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams”
As part of our series highlighting educator voices, we spoke to five Black teachers who teach in predominately Black or all-Black settings to ask how they approach the topic of slavery.
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Expanding Democracy Through Intersecting Movements
The connections between past and present intersecting movements in the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Civil Rights Memorial Center educate and inspire individuals to continue the fight for justice.