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Why Do Teachers Quit?
We asked your best advice for improving job quality and retaining teachers. Your answers reinforced the need for social justice in schools.
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Reading for Change
Critical reading allows students to navigate the “quest for mutual humanization.”
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Lessons of 1964: The Movement Continues
This year's civil rights anniversaries can be a call to action.
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Toolkit for "Empathy for the 'A'"
Empathy and academics need not be mutually exclusive. In fact, a focus on empathy can increase student achievement. This toolkit for “Empathy for the ‘A’” shows teachers how to build empathy into their practice with a few adjustments to the things they already do.
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Indian Occupation of Alcatraz
The announcement on November 20, 1969 from 89 American Indians – mostly students from colleges and universities – that they were taking over Alcatraz Island, set in motion what would become the longest occupation of a federal facility by Native Americans to date. This report aired a year later on NBC News, in December 1970, six months before the occupation ended.
July 3, 2014
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Excellence With Equity: A Mentor’s Approach, Part 3
This new-educator mentor discusses how mentoring can expand beginning teachers’ critical lens toward advocacy for students and their professional agency in rerouting the school-to-prison pipeline.
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How Many Studies Does It Take?
Every time a new study is released showing black students are suspended at far higher rates than any of their peers, the public seems shocked. Words like “race” and “school to prison pipeline” and “discrimination” find their way into headlines—and then the issue fades away yet again.
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Voting in Your Town
Students use online resources to analyze current voter registration and turnout rates in their state and local community. They also explore potential roadblocks to the voting process (e.g., felon disenfranchisement and voter fraud).
October 3, 2016
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Resisting Dominant Narratives
In this hostile learning environment created by censorship and book bans, these LFJ book reviews encourage us all to keep reading—and writing—to counter the narratives that have historically excluded diverse perspectives.
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Community Spotlight Cards
Students create “trading cards” spotlighting diverse community members who work toward social justice goals that connect to themes from the central text.
July 13, 2014