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May 4, 2015

Making “A Place in the Middle” in Every Classroom

Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Dean Hamer shares how his documentary A Place in the Middle, co-directed with Joe Wilson, can help students see the value of inclusion, the power of cultural heritage and their ability to create a more positive school climate.

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity Bullying & Bias

publication

Creating and Upholding Just Systems

Social justice leadership includes regularly assessing and improving systems and structures that promote student well-being and equity—in both experiences and outcomes.

May 26, 2023

article

October 11, 2017

Heavy Topics, Strong Classrooms

teacher giving instruction to students in class

Our democracy desperately needs diverse voices to engage in mature dialogue if we are to ever find compassionate solutions to our common problems. Schools must be where young people learn to do this.

article

Issue 38, Fall 2010

Cyberbullying

Illustration of a bully plugged into a computer with victims entangled by its chords

The stakes have never been higher for students—or schools.

Topic

Bullying & Bias

article

Issue 55, Spring 2017

Pink

A social justice educator comes to terms with his not-so-hidden biases.

Topic

Bullying & Bias

text

Informational

Redstockings Manifesto

The feminist organization Redstockings was founded in New York in 1969 on the premise that women were oppressed by male supremacy. Their manifesto calls for female class consciousness and a fight for liberation.

Redstockings

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism

Subject

Civics

History

Economics

July 2, 2014

text

Informational

"Color Guards" With No Flags

Carl Carter recalls two snapshots from 1960s Birmingham, Alabama, that changed him in ways he “wouldn't understand for years."

Carl Carter

Grade Level

6-8

Topic

Rights & Activism

Subject

History

November 18, 2014

teaching strategy

Community Inquiry

Artifact Add-ons

Artifact Add-on asks students to select and share real-life objects that illustrate concepts and ideas from the central text.

Grade Level

3-5

CCSS

RL.3-5.1, RI.3-5.1, RL.3-5.2, RI.3-5.2, RL.3-5.3, RI.3-5.3, SL.3-5.1, SL.3-5.2 SL.3-5.4, SL.3-5.5, SL.3-5.6

July 13, 2014

text

Informational

An Act to Authorize the Manumission of Slaves (1782)

This act shows the ways in which Virginia regulated manumitting (freeing) of enslaved people and the subsequent race-based laws for freedpeople.

Virginia General Assembly

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Slavery

Subject

History

January 5, 2018

text

Informational

An Ex-Slaveholder's View of the Negro Question in the South

Written in 1900, this text presents the views of a former enslaver about the value of slavery for those enslaved.

Colonel Robert Bingham

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Slavery

Subject

History

December 14, 2017

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