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Rigor + Support = Success
One-sixth of American children live in poverty. Experienced teachers offer a formula for change.
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Stop Using Schools to Enforce Immigration Laws
U.S. public schools are not branch offices of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. That’s the message the Obama administration sent out in a letter to the nation’s school districts last week.
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A Lawyer's Story From the Field
A Southern Poverty Law Center lawyer relates to a student who has been suspended repeatedly from a Florida school district where the Center is challenging the discriminatory treatment of African-American children.
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Seamless Teaching : Navigating the Inclusion Spectrum
Giving Gen Ed teachers the tools to realize the potential of inclusive classrooms.
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A Student's View on the Silence Over Bullying
Growing up, no one told me that people shouldn’t be gay. My parents didn’t tell me I shouldn’t talk to kids whose parents were lesbian. My neighbors didn’t rant against the horrors of gay rights. Instead, all the people in my life encouraged me to live openly, to take people’s personalities and see the beauty in them, to smile at the adorable young couple clutching each other’s hands, no matter their gender. Love was love. I lived in a world blissfully ignorant about the cruelties of the “real world.”
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Practice Self-care Now and Next Year
A pandemic rages on, police violence continues to affect Black communities, and this school year is like no other. We know anxiety and burnout have been commonplace this year, and we hope you can find time to pause to practice self-care. These resources can help you reflect, rest and refresh so that you can be present for yourself and your students in 2021.
- Self-care Can Be Social Justice
- The Value of Educator Self-Care
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Countering Disinformation to Affirm Trans and Nonbinary Youth
With the increase in politically motivated attacks on the rights of transgender youth to receive affirming care, we must all work to create safer spaces in schools and in our communities for trans and nonbinary students. Understanding gender-affirming care for youth is an essential step, and the willingness to learn will help you counter the disinformation that endangers LGBTQ+ youth. These LFJ resources can help foster such understanding.
- Gender-Affirming Care: What It Is and Why It's Necessary
- Toolkit for "Being There for Nonbinary Youth"
- Policymakers and Lawmakers Want To Erase Trans Identities; Don’t Erase Them in Your School
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Education Justice Is Crucial for a Thriving Democracy
During this back-to-school season, let’s support the education and well-being of all young people. Learning for Justice offers new and updated education justice resources with research-based practices that benefit all students and help ensure more inclusive public schools that foster excellence and equity. Education justice is crucial if we are to achieve a thriving multiracial democracy.
Visit the Education Justice series for resources!
- Education Justice
- Why Public Schools Matter
- Understanding the Role and Responsibilities of the Department of Education
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Know Your Audience, Find Your Power
"There’s nothing wrong with the way your grandparents talk,” my elementary school teachers used to say. “Standard English is different. Not better or worse. It’s just a way of talking that you need to know.”