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April 14, 2021

Use the Tools of Science to Recognize Inequity in Science

We know anti-racist STEM curriculum is critical, but it can be hard to find. These LFJ grantees have created a resource to help.

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Rights & Activism

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September 9, 2021

Another Challenging Back-to-School Season

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LFJ sends encouragement and support to parents and caregivers as we enter another school year with COVID-19.

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Rights & Activism

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Natalie Sturdevant

Natalie Sturdevant is a Teach For America alum and taught eighth grade reading in a small Texas town on the border of Mexico. As a librarian, at Crazy Horse School on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in Wanblee, S.D., since 2012, she’s created and executed a media class using current events as a lens for students to reflect on and develop their identities. Natalie seeks to help students develop a critical consciousness of their community and our world by wrestling with topics such as race, oppression, and socioeconomics.

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Issue 56, Summer 2017

Countering the Narrative

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How to turn “I’m not good at this” into “I’m not good at this—yet!”

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Issue 41, Spring 2012

Class Outing

Many teachers still feel it’s safest to teach from the closet.

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Gender & Sexual Identity Bullying & Bias

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Issue 27, Spring 2005

A Dream We All Can Share

How parents can teach kids that all history counts.

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Issue 43, Spring 2013

Mimi's Moms

Teaching Tolerance illustration of girl intersected by a female relationship sign

Creating welcoming classrooms for young children of LGBT families.

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Gender & Sexual Identity

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You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer!

Amelia Bloomer was a woman who liked to think, live and even dress unconventionally, and she encouraged other people—particularly women—to do the same.

Shana Corey

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K-2 3-5

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Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism

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Civics

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July 7, 2014

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Issue 46, Spring 2014

I Start the Year With Nothing

Teaching Tolerance illustration of peeling the wall and find a new world

When students make the rules, classroom community soars.

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Stories Can Offer Affirming Models of Love and Acceptance

This holiday season, share stories with children that deepen our values and celebrate our shared humanity. “Fireflies,” our newest children’s story about family, love and identity, gives children affirming messages and offers a model to adults on responding to a child questioning their sexual orientation or gender identity. When 10-year-old Kaden wonders whether he’s gay, he turns to his older brother Zain, who offers the love and acceptance all caring adults should give to a child.

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Growing Together: For Children and Families
Amanda Gorman

December 9, 2024

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