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What We’re Watching
From full-length features to 10-minute shorts, these films caught our attention—and deserve yours.
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Set High Expectations
Protect your school against hate, bias and bigotry by setting firm—and high—expectations early and often. And not just for students.
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Learning to Balance Your Media Diet
The current media circus thrives on spectacle and loud debate, as evidenced by a lack of nuanced, civil discussion online. These materials from our Digital Literacy Framework can help students understand why many online communities are so divided—and how to look beyond that division to help create a more inclusive, and more civil, online world.
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- News Consumers' Bill of Rights and Responsibilities
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Toolkit for Hit the Road
This toolkit provides lesson plan ideas for taking a virtual civil rights tour with your students and for bringing the voices of civil rights veterans into the classroom.
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Getting Students in the Mix
Mix It Up is about the students, and they make some of the best organizers!
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Facebook is My Classroom, Too
As teachers, we hear almost daily that we “must meet the students where they are.” It is a core tenant, a sacred truth offered as a key to successfully unlocking the hearts and minds of even the most reluctant learners.
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Dr. King Opened Doors for Historic Presidency
The confluence of President Obama’s second inauguration and MLK Day is a fitting legacy and inspiration to continue making changes.
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Reimagining Digital Literacy Education To Save Ourselves
Misinformation and online hate are crisis-level threats to democracy and liberation movements. Digital literacy education must be among the solutions.