article
1,496 Results
publication
Supporting Student Action
Educators play a valuable role as adult allies to youth organizing for social justice.
May 23, 2023
publication
Collaboration and Building Alliances
Building alliances is about working together, giving and receiving support, and creating a sounding board for social justice planning.
May 26, 2023
article
ChangeMakers for an Inclusive and Just Future
LGBTQ+ youth activists from the ChangeMakers Leadership Institute advocate for inclusive education and community resilience in the face of oppressive legislation in Florida.
article
Expanding Democracy
LFJ Director Jalaya Liles Dunn contends that “The treatment of children from communities experiencing systemic oppressions—those at the intersection of race, gender, poverty and geography—will determine the fate of our democracy.”
text
Literature
Elegy for Peter Norman
In this poem, the speaker recounts his or her shifting view of the white man stoically standing between Tommie Smith and John Carlos during their medal ceremony in Mexico City for the 1968 Olympics.
July 16, 2018
article
Decolonizing the Classroom: Teaching With Indigenous Comics
Bring Native cultures, stories and perspectives out of the margins of your curriculum with comics by and about Native peoples.
article
Loc’d Out: How Thoughtless Dress Codes Can Harm Students From Day One
Culturally insensitive policies that force students to hide their identities defy the mission of establishing an inclusive learning environment.
article
Black History Month Teaching: Miseducation or Empowerment?
This high school English teacher encourages educators to focus on African Americans' contributions to the United States, with the Harlem Renaissance as a way to begin.
article
How We Choose to Remember
TT Teaching and Learning Specialist Lauryn Mascareñaz reflects on her visit to the new National Memorial for Peace and Justice, a necessary space that speaks to our nation’s need to confront its racial history.