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Recovering and Teaching Local History
Local history has a profound effect on our communities. It’s up to educators to learn and teach students about the hard history in their own backyards.
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Text-Dependent Questions for “The Color of Justice”
Text-Dependent Questions accompany “The Color of Justice.”
July 18, 2017
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A Student’s Take on Sugar-coated History
This Black Alabama teen and her family had to fill the gaps in her education at home. Here’s her advice to teachers.
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“Cornerstone” Speech
In this speech, Alexander H. Stephens justifies the Confederacy’s secession, arguing that the “cornerstone” of the Confederacy is the maintenance of the institution of slavery and the belief in the inferiority of African Americans.
January 6, 2018
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Chapter 1: Editorials
An excerpt from A Whale Hunt, How a Native-American Village Did What No One Thought It Could by Robert Sullivan. This piece is to accompany "Holding Onto Heritage: Native Whale Hunts & Diversity" lesson.
July 14, 2017
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Part II: Spotlights
This section of the guide describes three different social justice reading groups. These groups will give you a sense of the different structures and approaches families and communities are using to read and talk about
October 16, 2019
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Appendix C: Online Supplement
Resources for Critical Practices Introduction Perspectives by Jalaya Liles Dunn in Learning for Justice Magazine, Fall 2022 Issue Social Justice Standards by Learning for Justice I. Curriculum and Instruction “ What is
May 26, 2023
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Early Deliberations
A developmental psychologist investigates how children think about fairness and exclusion.
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'Homo High'
Some people argue “gay-friendly” schools offer needless segregation. Others say they’re the only chance some kids have to make it.
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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.
May 3, 2012