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In the first PD Café in our series about the LFJ Social Justice Standards, learn how to help your students dig deep on the concept of identity.

What’s your go-to text by an indigenous author? This educator calls attention to the limitations of using only Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko, and offers a detailed list of suggested additional readings.

A conversation with Carlos Cortés.

How students can convert the shameful history of sundown towns in the United States into a rich opportunity for setting the record straight.

One teacher considers how to talk with students about the idea of the American Dream.

Editor’s note: The author of this essay prefers the pronoun they. In a poignant letter to their teenage self, Jey Ehrenhalt—a transgender educator and advocate—recalls jarring and painful experiences of their youth and describes how many schools urgently need to become more welcoming and supportive places for transgender students.

There are so many ways to mix up student seating at lunch that it can be paralyzing to consider them all. Don’t let this be a stumbling block. The outcome is the same, no matter the path that gets you there: You want to get students to sit with different people at lunch, and you want them to have a conversation so they get to know each other a bit.

If you dig deep, there is a WEALTH of curricular materials right outside the door of your school. Have you ever looked?