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The Learning Center
The Learning Center is LFJ’s online popular education space, offering learning for civic and political action to build an inclusive, multiracial democracy.
August 21, 2024
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Toolkit for “We Are Our Ancestors' Wildest Dreams”
Want to take these teachers’ advice? Educate yourself on the deep and complex history of American slavery and how it shaped the American institutions and beliefs about race.
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Toolkit for ‘The Opioid Crisis’ and Trauma-Sensitive Practices
Students who experience trauma often exhibit behaviors we associate with defiance, indifference or attention-deficit disorders. This toolkit and additional resources can help us overcome those assumptions and respond to such behaviors in trauma-sensitive ways.
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Building Resilience Against Manipulative Disinformation
Supporting young people’s mental health and well-being is essential in addressing vulnerabilities to harmful disinformation.
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Affirm LGBTQ+ Young People by Creating Inclusive Learning Spaces
It is imperative to provide inclusive education because, as GLSEN’s Executive Director, Melanie Willingham-Jaggers, emphasizes, “Accurate and inclusive lessons not only affirm LGBTQ+ students, but also give non-LGBTQ+ students clear information about the diverse world around them and help prepare all young people to navigate and contribute to a multicultural society.”
- Inclusive Education Benefits All Children
- Visibility is Power
- Gender-Affirming Care: What It Is and Why It's Necessary
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Freedom To Read, Freedom To Learn
May 3 is the Freedom To Learn National Day of Action, a day of advocacy for inclusive education and young people’s freedom to read, learn and build a just future. Our collective responsibility is to counter disinformation, uplift honest history and engage our communities to serve all children.
- Exclusion Is Unconstitutional
- A Call for Anti-Bias Education
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What We’re Reading This Week: May 3, 2019
A weekly sampling of articles, blogs and reports relevant to TT educators.
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A Message From Our Managing Editor
In all the changes that have occurred in the last decade, one steady current is clear to TT Managing Editor Monita Bell: Our work is about doing right by all of our kids.
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The Classical Roots of White Supremacy
A whitewashed history of the ancient world lays the foundation for white supremacy across the curriculum.
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Supporting Immigrant Students and Families
Immigration has been at the front of the national conversation for years. Many immigrant children experience challenges adjusting to a new country and culture and being fully included in schools. In families without immigration documentation, the fear of family separation, arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and deportation continues to cause anxiety among children and their families.
- Supporting Students from Immigrant Families
- Community Organizing Uplifts Immigrant Students
- Supporting and Affirming Immigrant Students and Families