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Tackling Implicit Bias
From Selma to Ferguson and beyond, implicit bias has been at play. But educators can take steps to understand this bias and move toward solutions.
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Expert Opinions—Students Speak About Bullying
When we talk about devoting so many minutes to each subject in a school day, we need to make time for students to communicate about what really matters to them.
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New Opportunities for Back to School
A new year offers new opportunities to create the schools our students deserve: spaces where all identities are respected and where injustice is named and addressed. If you, like us, are starting the school year with a recommitment to equity, these resources can help you get started with a policy check-up.
- Controlling the Student Body
- Best Practices for Serving LGBTQ Students
- Serving ELL Students and Families
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LGBT Teachers Need Allies
When LGBT teachers have to live in fear of being outed, their capacity to service students in an authentic way is diminished.
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Media Literacy Is Vital for Informed Decision-Making
Media literacy — being able to access, analyze and evaluate information for accuracy and reliability across a variety of mediums — is crucial for us to make informed decisions.
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Lessons Learned
Debriefing is an essential step in the postcrisis process. Bring together the incident response team to review lessons learned. But don’t stop there. “Always make sure there’s an opportunity for exchange with multiple
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Leading Conversations After the Insurrection in Washington D.C.
In the coming days and weeks, we hope you'll offer students important context for the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol—and we'll keep sharing resources to help you do so. But we know you're likely already talking with students about what happened. We hope these resources help.
- Leading Conversations After Crisis
- Let's Talk!
- To Sustain the Tough Conversations, Active Listening Must Be the Norm
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Honor Black, Indigenous and People of Color Mental Health Month
It’s essential to reduce the stigma associated with mental health and to affirm practices for wellness—especially during Black, Indigenous and People of Color Mental Health Month. These LFJ resources remind us of the ongoing impact of racism and bias and provide recommendations to support adults in helping young people during these polarizing times.
- Self-Care in the Movement
- Black Minds Matter
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Making Homelessness More Than a Stereotype
My middle school students had started to use words like “bum,” “creeper,” and “hobo” to describe people who are homeless in our city. To my eighth-graders, it was comic relief.
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Getting Clear of the ‘They’ Rhetoric
After reading a Teaching Tolerance Facebook post asking how we would be marking the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, I started to think about how I would address this in my classroom. My new group of sixth-graders will be 10 and 11 years old. What they know about these events will not be from their memories but from what they have learned from their parents and teachers. And given the proximity of our school district to New York City, it is quite possible that I will have students who lost a family member on that day. However I decide to approach it in the classroom, it isn’t going to be easy.