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Jennifer Rowe

Jennifer Rowe is the Executive Director of Educational Equity for Indian Prairie School District in Aurora, Illinois. She has a strong passion for equity work and believes that through building relationships and providing opportunity, real change can occur. Rowe is the co-founder of the Valley Runway, a program that provides prom dresses and tuxedos to students, has partnered with FermiLab to create a summer STEM camp for Black and Latinx students, and has collaborated with 360 Youth Services to provide school-based mental health services in her district’s middle and high schools.
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T. Elijah Hawkes

T. Elijah Hawkes has been a public school principal for 13 years. He is currently principal at Randolph Union, in Randolph, Vermont. He was founding principal of the James Baldwin School in New York City. His writings about adolescence, public school and democracy have appeared in the Huffington Post, Education Week, Kappan, Schools: Studies in Education, and in two books published by Rethinking Schools: The New Teacher Book and Rethinking Sexism, Gender and Sexuality. You can follow him on Twitter @ElijahHawkes.
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Stereotypes and Tonto

This lesson revolves around Sherman Alexie’s poignant yet humorous and accessible essay, “I Hated Tonto (Still Do).” It explores the negative impact that stereotypes have on the self-worth of individuals and the damage that these stereotypes inflict on pride in one’s heritage. The reading is supported by a short video montage of clips from Western films. The clips offer students the opportunity to evaluate primary sources for bias and bigotry, as well as providing context for the protagonists’ experiences in the essay.
Grade Level
6-8 9-12
Social Justice Domain
Diversity
March 17, 2010
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Debra Ginsberg

Debra Ginsberg is a professional freelance writer and editor, book reviewer, workshop leader and contributor to NPR’s All Things Considered. She is the author of the award-winning and bestselling memoirs: Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress; Raising Blaze: A Mother and Son’s Long, Strange Journey Into Autism; and About My Sisters. She is also the author of the novels Blind Submission, The Grift (a New York Times Notable and SCIBA Mystery Award winner), The Neighbors Are Watching and What the Heart Remembers (a SCIBA Mystery Award winner). You can reach Ginsberg via her website.
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Maya Angelou

This lesson focuses on questions of identity as students read and analyze Angelou’s inspirational poem “Still I Rise” and apply its message to their own lives. Students learn how Maya Angelou overcame hardship and discrimination to find her own voice and to influence others to believe in themselves and use their voices for positive change.
Grade Level
6-8 9-12
Topic
Gender & Sexual Identity
Subject
Reading & Language Arts
Social Studies
Social Justice Domain
Identity Action
May 3, 2012
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Part of a Community Online

This lesson focuses on helping young children learn to participate in different kinds of digital communities. Students will solidify and work on what they know about being part of any community.
Grade Level
K-2
Subject
Digital Literacy
Reading & Language Arts
Social Studies
Social Justice Domain
Diversity Justice
September 25, 2017
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Sarah Shear

Sarah Shear is an assistant professor at Penn State University-Altoona, where she teaches courses on social studies education and education foundations. Sarah earned her doctorate in learning, teaching and curriculum from the University of Missouri in 2014 with an emphasis in social studies education and indigenous studies. Her primary research focuses on teaching and learning K-12 social studies within indigenous contexts, including work with social studies educators in New Mexico and Oklahoma. Sarah's other research includes examining race and settler colonialism in K-12 social studies
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Violence Prevention

Civil rights leader Malcolm X now appears in many history books and has been the hero of a feature film, but very few sources actually delve into the forms of leadership and resistance to oppression that Malcolm X advocated in the last year of his life.
Grade Level
6-8 9-12
Subject
Reading & Language Arts
Social Studies
Social Justice Domain
Justice
July 6, 2009
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Reading Ads with a Social Justice Lens

Children are surrounded – and targeted – by advertisements: on television, the computer, even on their journeys to and from school. Children need specific strategies for reading and talking about advertisements and their impact. Reading Ads with a Social Justice Lens is a series of 13 multidisciplinary mini-lessons that provide such strategies and build critical literacy. The lessons are designed for students in grades K-5 and include suggestions for simple adaptations. These lessons open up important conversations about the relationship between advertisements and social justice. Children will see that they have the power to decide how media will influence them. They will also engage in social justice projects that address some of the unfair messages they find in advertising.
Grade Level
K-2 3-5
Subject
Reading & Language Arts
Social Studies
Economics
ELL / ESL
Math & Technology
Social Justice Domain
Justice
June 7, 2012