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“They Should Have Listened”: Thoughts on Spring Valley
This blogger responds to the assault of a student at Spring Valley High School and reflects on the message that “kids should just listen and stay out of ‘trouble.’”
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Under Attack
The bullying of teachers is slowly entering the national spotlight. How will your school respond?
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Independent Reading: A Curricular Workaround
By incorporating quarterly independent reading projects into her curriculum, this English teacher ensures that every student reads culturally responsive literature.
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Section One: Before a Crisis Occurs
A school climate that encourages inclusion and promotes tolerance creates an atmosphere in which bias acts are less likely to gain momentum and more likely to be quickly and widely denounced.
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Toolkit for Picture Imperfect
Racial inequity, gender stereotypes and heternormity continue to dominate children’s books. This toolkit will help you assess your classroom library and make future selections that reflect a range of cultures, genders, immigration and socio-economic statuses, sexual orientations and family structures.
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Believe It or Not
Four ways to include religiously unaffiliated students in classroom content about religion.
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Conversations About Gun Violence, Disinformation and Extremism
To support young people as they grapple with harms motivated by extremism, PERIL director of research, Pasha Dashtgard, Ph.D., argues that it’s incumbent upon the whole community to address hate-fueled violence.
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Expanding Democracy Through Intersecting Movements
In the continuing fight for justice and the expansion of democracy, understanding intersecting movements to end oppression is imperative and inspiring. Those at the intersections of geography, gender, poverty and race, as LFJ Director Jalaya Lyles Dunn explains, “will determine the fate of our democracy,” and have often been the agents of change, as witnessed by the connections between the past and the present highlighted in the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Civil Rights Memorial Center.
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- James Baldwin