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Teaching About Mass Incarceration: The Ongoing Narrative of Racial Oppression
We need to talk about mass incarceration in schools, and the conversation can’t stop after one discussion.
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Why Heteronormativity Is Harmful
The argument is not whether being LGBT is a choice. The argument is around the choice made by adults—including educators—whether or not to unconditionally support a child.
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More Than a Name: Teaching Historic Firsts
When teaching students about barrier breakers, don’t just teach “who”; teach “why.”
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Rethinking Family Engagement During School Closures
Taking time to check assumptions about family engagement can make a huge difference in the lives of your students and their caregivers.
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Knowing When to Advocate for a Student
Today, I got a laptop. Not for me. For Aeesha. Let me flash back to about six weeks ago. A team meeting took place around a table in the science classroom, completing the annual discussion about Aeesha’s Individualized Education Plan (IEP). In eighth grade, Aeesha still struggles with basic mathematics, with written expression skills and with decoding text. In many ways, she is an elementary school student trapped in a middle school student’s adolescent body.
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Stories from the Country
Teaching Tolerance director Maureen Costello considers the lack of understanding of rural schools.
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Change Starts Here (With Me): Day of Action, March 2025
Join us for a Day of Action on March 7 (or any day in March that works for you) — and organize with young people in your community. As we commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march, it is your time to step forward, just as the young people did then, and say, “Change starts here.” Your voice, your energy and your activism are essential in shaping today’s movements for justice.
- Change Starts Here (With Me): Day of Action Toolkit
- Introduction to Action Planning: Toolkit
- Youth Learning For Justice
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The Early Republic
In this lesson, students examine voting rights in the early years of the United States and the causes and effects of the first major expansion of voting rights, which took place in the late 1700s and first half of the 1800s. By the end of the lesson, students will be able to explain where various groups of Americans stood regarding the right to vote before the Civil War, and will hypothesize about what they expect happened next.
October 21, 2011
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The Kids Are All Right
Tulsa teacher Akela Leach helps her school district implement new lessons about their city’s painful history.