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Using Editorial Cartoons to Teach Social Justice

Using Editorial Cartoons to Teach Social Justice is a series of 14 lessons. Each lesson focuses on a contemporary social justice issue. These lessons are multidisciplinary and geared toward middle and high school students.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

August 3, 2010

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August 23, 2021

What Critical Race Theory Is and What it Means for Teachers

Person writing notes while looking at computer

Education law and policy expert Bob Kim answers some key questions for educators about these so-called “anti-critical race theory” laws and what’s really going on.

article

Issue 34, Fall 2008

I Didn't Know There Were Cities in Africa!

Cluster of Building in the shape of elephants

Challenging children's — and adults' — misperceptions about the African continent.

Topic

Bullying & Bias

author

Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Ph.D.

Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Ph.D., (he/him) is the Ford Foundation Professor of History, Race and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and faculty director of the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project (IARA). His scholarship examines the intersections of racism, economic inequality, criminal justice and democracy in U.S. history.

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In Public

For some people, speaking up in public feels more difficult than any other setting. For others, speaking up in public — to strangers who have no power or ties to one's home or work life — feels easier.

Topic

Bullying & Bias

July 21, 2009

article

August 24, 2016

Unlocking Emotional Barriers to Language Learning

We need to prepare children for the increasingly globalized world we live in. Improving their learning of languages is a good start.

Topic

Immigration Bullying & Bias

article

December 16, 2013

The Classroom Closet

One writer describes his experience being both a gay man and an elementary school teacher.

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

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Issue 48, Fall 2014

The Classroom Closet

What if you couldn't be you at work?

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

article

July 29, 2019

Trump Effect: Teaching Baltimore and the Power of Place

The places we call home can play a large part in the way we see ourselves—and the way others see us. The way you talk to your students about these places matters.

Topic

Rights & Activism

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April 3, 2019

The Problem With the “Disney Version of History”

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. being detained and arrested by uniformed police officers.

We can celebrate Dr. King and interrupt the idea that our progress toward justice has been continuous and inevitable.

Topic

Rights & Activism

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