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Talk with Students About Slut-Shaming
Slut-shaming is a dangerous phenomenon in schools, but there are ways to support students.
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Toolkit for "A Teacher's Guide to Rerouting the Pipeline"
This toolkit explains five “shifts” classroom teachers can make in their teaching practices and their interactions with students to help disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline.
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New Guide for Gender-Inclusive Puberty and Health Education
Our friends at Gender Spectrum are announcing a new resource to ensure your teaching of puberty and health education is accurate and inclusive of all students.
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TT’s NEW LGBTQ Best Practices Guide
We’ve learned a lot in the last few years about what LGBTQ students need to thrive. This excerpt from our new guide offers insight into how even small policy adjustments can make a big difference in the lives of queer and nonbinary students.
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A Quick Reference Guide to Teaching Hard History
[2022] LFJ's framework for teaching about American slavery can be used to supplement current curriculum or to guide the creation of new curriculum that more honestly and courageously tells the story of American slavery.
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"Mr. D, Don't Let Them Take Our School"
An interview with Principal Frank DeAngelis of Columbine High School.
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Toolkit for "Why Talk About Whiteness?"
This toolkit for “Why Talk About Whiteness?” offers nine steps to engage high school students in a guided viewing of The Whiteness Project. The Whiteness Project, an “interactive investigation into how Americans who identify as ‘white’ experience their ethnicity,” is available for free online.
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Talking With Students About #JusticeForLucca
The news—and disturbing footage—of police officers assaulting an unarmed black teenager in Florida last week shines yet another spotlight on the dangers black youth face every day. Your students have likely seen the video and conversation surrounding #JusticeForLucca. These resources will help you understand how this violent footage can affect students, how to discuss this news with them and how you can bring #BlackLivesMatter into your classroom.
- Don't Say Nothing
- Why Teaching Black Lives Matter Matters | Part I
- Living With the Bear
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Under the Influence of Teacher Talk
At the start of my career as an eighth-grade language arts teacher, it never bothered me when students were described by teachers as “low,” “middle,” or “high” as a way to label their abilities. No disrespect was meant toward our learners; it was just a fast and easy way to describe our kids and get to know them when we had so little time with them.
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An Educator’s Guide to the Immigration Debate
What you need to know to facilitate classroom conversation about this controversial topic.