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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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Let's Talk! Teaching Black Lives Matter

This sequel to Let's Talk! Discussing Black Lives Matter in the Classroom reviews the education related policy demands within the Movement for Black Lives' platform: Invest-Divest and Community Control.

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Rights & Activism

January 31, 2017

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Equity Matters: Engaging Families Through Home Visits

In the second Equity Matters webinar, educators will discuss family engagement as one of many keys to student success. Find out how to implement home visits as a way to effectively and positively interact with students, families and communities.

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Class

January 17, 2017

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Community Organizing, Youth Leadership and SNCC

Episode 13, Season 3 In this episode, we talk with movement veteran Courtland Cox about lessons from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and his own development as a young organizer of the Emmett Till

February 22, 2021

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December 9, 2013

Commemorating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

chalkboard drawing of multicolored stick people standing on globe

On this important anniversary, integrate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into your classroom reading instruction.

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Rights & Activism

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Emily Tweten

Emily is an elementary school educator. She worked for 4 years with abused and neglected children in a residential setting before becoming a school counselor in the Brighton 27J school district, where she has been employed for the past seven years.

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February 14, 2017

Black LGBTQ History: Teachers Must Do a Better Job

Civil rights and LGBTQ leader Bayard Rustin talking to four students gathered around him.

Our curricula should not present a narrow, monolithic narrative about Black history that omits certain voices and identity groups, such as LGBTQ individuals.

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Gender & Sexual Identity

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July 5, 2016

How to Support First-Generation College Students

Extra attention and mentoring before first-generation students attend college can give them the tools to feel comfortable, confident and welcome when they start their higher education journey.

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The Reich Citzenship Law of September 15, 1935

The Nuremberg Laws embedded many of the racially based ideological principles held by the Nazi party into written law. The German Reichstag passed this set of laws on September 15, 1935, initiating a period of legal discrimination against those the German government deemed racially inferior. The Reich Citizenship Law is one of the Nuremburg Laws.

German Reichstag

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9-12

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Religion Rights & Activism

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Civics

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July 3, 2014

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August 16, 2013

“Say Yes” Again

Critical literacy can expose the assumption that whiteness is “normal” and provide students support for talking about difficult topics.

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Gender & Sexual Identity

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