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Issue 62, Summer 2019

Getting on the Right Track: How One School Stopped Tracking Students

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Tracking and ability grouping remain common practices in schools across the country despite research showing these practices contribute to segregated classes and opportunity gaps. In Walla Walla, Washington, a group of educators decided to try something different.

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August 17, 2018

Loc’d Out: How Thoughtless Dress Codes Can Harm Students From Day One

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Culturally insensitive policies that force students to hide their identities defy the mission of establishing an inclusive learning environment.

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Issue 64, Spring 2020

Ending Curriculum Violence

Illustration of several school children holding a stalk of cotton with the student of color in the center looking defeated and hurt.

Yes, curriculum can be violent—whether you intend it or not. Here’s what it looks like and how you can avoid it.

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Appendix A

The LGBTQ Library Books and Films for You and Your Classroom This list of books and films—with options for students of all ages and reading levels—offers a good starting place for educators who need to diversify their

November 6, 2018

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Amber N. Mitchell

Amber N. Mitchell (she/her) is the director of education at Whitney Plantation, where she leads educational efforts for the site.

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December 10, 2018

Take This Survey to Fight Hate in Schools

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Take concrete action against hate in schools by telling us what’s happening on the ground.

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Bullying & Bias

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Issue 1, Fall 2021

Thirty Years of Learning and Counting!

Learn more about all that LFJ has to offer!

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Riley Drake, Ph.D.

Riley Drake is an assistant professor of school counseling in the Department of Counseling, Rehabilitation, and Human Services at the University of Wisconsin-Stout School of Education. Riley’s vision for educational justice is grounded in education as the practice of freedom, and her research, including her dissertation, The Purpose Is Process: Exploring Humanizing Social Emotional Praxes in Elementary Education, explores how educators honor and struggle for liberation alongside young people, families and community organizers. Specifically, she is interested in the praxes of elementary school

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Community Guidelines

Learning for Justice Community Guidelines Moderation Goals Learning for Justice offers opportunities for educators to comment on the content published by our staff and by other educators in the form of Learning Plans

February 23, 2018

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Introducing LFJ’s Community Justice Sites

LFJ is piloting our Community Justice Sites programming at the SPLC’s Road to 60 Summit in Mississippi. Our Community Justice Sites are Freedom Schools and Citizenship Schools for everyone. When we “learn for justice,” we center learning to inform our action for liberation and justice in our communities.

Freedom Summer and Today’s Election Process
Introduction to Action Planning: Toolkit
Strategies of the Civil Rights Movement

August 13, 2024

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