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Reflecting on Personal Stories

Students learn about the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans from people who lived through it. This video depicts how students use metaphorical thinking to deepen their understanding using the thinking routine, Color-Symbol-Image.

Densho.org

Grade Level

3-5

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Class Bullying & Bias Rights & Activism

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History

February 22, 2019

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Antonio's Card/La tarjeta de Antonio

In this story, Antonio learns that words have power, and that can be both a good and bad thing. As Mother’s Day approaches he must decide how to show his love for his mother and her partner and whether he wants that declaration to be public.

Rigoberto González and Cecilia Concepción Álvarez

Grade Level

K-2

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

July 29, 2016

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Freedom To Read, Freedom To Learn

These resources can help you learn, teach and advocate for education justice and a more inclusive, multiracial democracy that rejects book bans and resists hate.

April 28, 2023

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February 27, 2023

Conversations About Gun Violence, Disinformation and Extremism

A group of teens sits in a circle having a conversation.

To support young people as they grapple with harms motivated by extremism, PERIL director of research, Pasha Dashtgard, Ph.D., argues that it’s incumbent upon the whole community to address hate-fueled violence.

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Bullying & Bias Rights & Activism

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Issue 44, Summer 2013

Toolkit for “Out at Last”

This toolkit accompanies the article “Out at Last,” and provides professional-development resources to support LGBT educators, and their straight allies, through the process of coming out.

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September 26, 2016

Ban? No, Teach the Topics.

Gender, sexuality and religion are common themes in challenged books of 2015. Rather than effectively ban these topics from the classroom, TT recommends teaching about them and offers student texts to do so.

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Issue 49, Spring 2015

Toolkit for A Hand to Hold

As educators, we can never be sure of what we will face in our classrooms. This toolkit will help you and your colleagues think about how to be best prepared for your students’ needs.

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Issue 54, Fall 2016

Burning 'Brown' to the Ground

Illustration of a schoolhouse split in two pieces, one black and one white, and both pieces are on fire.

Carol Anderson explains how, in many Southern states, Brown v. Board of Education fueled decades of resistance to school integration.

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Rights & Activism

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The Awakening

This 1915 cartoon by Henry Mayer depicts the struggle for women’s suffrage.

Henry Mayer

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6-8 9-12

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Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism

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Civics

History

Geography

July 3, 2014

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Rick Mula

Rick Mula is an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center. The aim of Rick’s fellowship project is to reduce the discrimination that LGBT youth living in Tennessee and Alabama experience in the education, child welfare and juvenile justice systems. His fellowship is sponsored by the Mansfield Family Foundation. Rick graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2015 where he received a graduate certificate in gender, sexuality and women’s studies. Rick was also awarded the Dean Jefferson B. Fordham Human Rights Award and the Blank Rome Alvin Ackerman

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