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Issue 66, Spring 2021

Toolkit for “Mathematics in Context: The Pedagogy of Liberation”

This toolkit will help educators consider how to “humanize math” using Learning for Justice’s Social Justice Standards. It provides opportunities for reflection and examples of real-world applications.

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Jill Spain

Jill Spain is a middle school language arts teacher in New Jersey. She has earned a bachelor of arts degree in special education and a master of arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. She is the recipient of an Outstanding Lessons Award for a Holocaust lesson for sixth graders, has participated in the “Lest We Forget” study tour to historic Holocaust sites in Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic and is a member of her school’s curriculum council.

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Looking at Race and Racial Identity in Children’s Books

This lesson, the second in a series, encourages students to think and talk openly about the concept of beauty, particularly as it overlaps with issues of race and racial identity.

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K-2 3-5

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Reading & Language Arts

Social Studies

ELL / ESL

September 9, 2011

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Issue 53, Summer 2016

Webinars for Your Summer Weekends

Summer’s here! Catch up on our on-demand webinars and spread the word.

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Issue 49, Spring 2015

Doing History in Buncombe County

A community gets to know its own stories—past and present—through the study of slave deeds.

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Rights & Activism

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At School

Like the workplace, school becomes the first or only place where some students, teachers, counselors, principals and others encounter a diverse and varied society. That presents opportunities for enlightenment — and potential for misunderstanding.

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Bullying & Bias

July 21, 2009

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Issue 54, Fall 2016

Rock the Vote

The organization clearly has great brand recognition, but what does it really mean to “Rock the Vote”?

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 14, Fall 1998

Better Together

An innovative curriculum spurs South Carolina students to fight bigotry.

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Issue 30, Fall 2006

Learning Lakota

Chris Mosner's class starts every day with a drum circle.

For a high school on South Dakota's Rosebud Reservation, culturally responsive curriculum may be the best antidote to the violence, poverty and growing cultural disconnect hindering student success.

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Introduction to the Teacher’s Guide

Teaching 'The New Jim Crow' Introduction to the Teacher's Guide In many ways, this is a dream come true. I have long hoped that a set of materials would be created that would support high school teachers who want to

July 6, 2017

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