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Cultural Responsiveness Starts with Real Caring
Culturally responsive teaching is really about building relationships and validating students. Ensuring the academic success of students takes care and a little tough love.
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Students Break Out of Fixed-Race Box
My journalism students were brainstorming topics for their final story projects. I urged them to come up with compelling ideas that relate to their experiences but that push deeply into national trends. “Stop letting all the midlife writers (like myself) tell your stories,” I pushed. “Tell your own.”
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Text-Dependent Questions for “The Color of Justice”
Text-Dependent Questions accompany “The Color of Justice.”
July 18, 2017
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Public School Integration Still ‘Best Goal’
When my daughter pulls hard on the heavy glass doors of the Martin Luther King Jr. Laboratory School and races upstairs into her fifth-grade classroom, she is living my dream.
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One Student’s Journey From Anger to Acceptance
Sometimes student growth happens in ways we can’t anticipate or plan.
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Honest History Can Help Prepare Young People for Life’s Complexities
Learning the honest history of our nation helps us understand our diversity and strengthens us all as we work toward building on more solid national foundation of truth and justice. As we celebrate Native American Heritage Month, the Learning for Justice page offers resource to learn and teach about the diversity of Indigenous cultures and communities. To explore our historical complexity, the recent magazine article, “American Patriotic Songs: Context and Perspective,” helps us to confront the various perspectives that a single patriotic song can embody.
- American Patriotic Songs: Context and Perspective
- Celebrate Native American Heritage
- Celebrating African and Indigenous Cultures
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Celebrating African and Indigenous Cultures
Conversations about African and Indigenous cultures are essential for learning about the history of our country and making connections with a broader world.
August 17, 2024
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50,000+ Youth Report Spike in Bullying and Harassment
The Human Rights Campaign's post-election survey of more than 50,000 young people highlights the November election's damaging impact on youth.
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Why Teaching Black Lives Matter Matters | Part I
All educators have the civic responsibility to learn and teach the basic history and tenets of this movement for racial justice.
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Size Bias As A Social Construction
Body image ideals, like race and gender, are social constructs that have grown out of a combination of history, politics, class, and moral values. One need look back only a few generations, or across cultures, to see