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September 10, 2013

New Program Promotes Safety for Secular Students

Secular Safe Zone helps educators make schools friendlier to non-religious students.

Topic

Religion Bullying & Bias

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December 15, 2015

Speak Truth To Power

Speak Truth To Power creates a new generation of students leaders who are not only aware of human rights abuses, but prepared to do something about them.

Topic

Rights & Activism

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Issue 54, Fall 2016

If It Can Happen Here …

Children's self-portraits hanging on a wall

When election rhetoric threatened their district culture, this group of California teachers organized a “Teach In.”

Topic

Immigration Rights & Activism

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February 16, 2018

Teaching Social Justice in Elementary Music Class

With 40 minutes—or fewer—to spend with students each week, this elementary music teacher struggled to teach meaningful content. Then she began asking herself, "Who do I want my students to be when they leave my classroom?"

Topic

Rights & Activism

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October 10, 2019

Support LGBTQ Students and Educators as Our Rights Are Decided

Two people holding hands in front of a rainbow flag.

As the Supreme Court hears cases to decide whether federal law protects LGBTQ people from employment discrimination, one queer educator explains how his colleagues can be accomplices in the fight for LGBTQ civil rights.

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism

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Engagement With Community Interests and Concerns

When students witness activist resistance to injustices in their own communities, it helps them better understand a core component of social justice education.

May 26, 2023

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What is a Family?

This lesson provides a framework that will help students talk about their own and others’ families in safe, caring ways.

Grade Level

K-2 3-5

Subject

SEL

Arts

July 10, 2017

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H. Roy Kaplan

Kaplan teaches in the Africana Studies Department at the University of South Florida, Tampa. He was the Executive Director of the National Conference of Christians and Jews for Tampa Bay and served as an advisor to President Clinton’s race relations task force. In 1998, he received a National Hero of Education Award from the U.S. Department of Education for his multicultural work in Florida schools. His most recent book is The Myth of Post-Racial America.

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March 30, 2017

To Teach a Complex Issue, Skip the K-W-L Chart

When teaching his seventh-graders about the Syrian refugee crisis, this teacher decided to step back and let his students immerse themselves in the topic.

Topic

Immigration

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April 6, 2017

Bias and Skepticism: How Far Is Too Far?

How do we help students fine-tune their skepticism so that it leads to knowledge-seeking and openness to new ideas?

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