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Create Social and Emotional Safety Through Solidarity

In the latest LFJ article, school counseling professor Riley Drake, Ph.D., outlines a model of social and emotional learning and explains “‘feeling safe’ is contextual,” especially for Black and Brown children whose needs are often overlooked in our nation’s classrooms. Relying on community partnerships, promoting mutual aid to foster solidarity and advancing restorative justice are strategies educators and other adults can employ to increase children’s feelings of safety and well-being. These LFJ resources offer more detail.

  • Solidarity as Social and Emotional Safety
  • Black Minds Matter
  • Toolkit: The Foundations of Restorative Justice
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Build a deeper understanding of wealth, poverty and systems of economic class. Empower students to understand income and resource disparity. Empower yourself to recognize the unique assets of low-income students and to
June 28, 2017
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Rodney Trice

Dr. Rodney Trice is an educator with 20 years of experience as a high school teacher, principal, and central office administrator. He holds a bachelor's degree in biology from Morehouse College and a master's degree in educational leadership from the University of Detroit Mercy. Dr. Trice earned his doctorate in 2005 in educational leadership from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has a passion for advancing equity leadership as a means to interrupt unjust educational systems and structures. Dr. Trice is currently the assistant superintendent for equity affairs for Wake
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Denial Fails as an Effective Anti-Bullying Program

The suicides of boys tormented by anti-gay harassment grabbed the public’s attention this fall. Those suicides are the tip of the iceberg. For every tragic and unnecessary case that makes it to the news, there are others we don’t hear about. These are the ones that families are too ashamed to disclose. Then there are scores of suicide attempts that leave parents desperately trying to convince schools to do the right thing.
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Gender & Sexual Identity Bullying & Bias
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Mapping Out a Get-to-Know-You Project

One of the simplest ways to foster compassion and understanding in our classrooms is to give students opportunities to share stories about their lives. By communicating and listening, students can break down stereotypes and see each other as real people. This can be done through curriculum-related projects such as personal narrative and poetry or as part of a daily class meeting.
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Bullying & Bias
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Reflecting on Practice

Is your classroom a calm, relaxing day or a violent, destructive storm? Is it sunny, cloudy or rainy? Is it frigidly cold? Are you a calm, refreshing breeze or a tornado?
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Teacher Leadership
July 12, 2009