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February 16, 2018

Teaching Social Justice in Elementary Music Class

With 40 minutes—or fewer—to spend with students each week, this elementary music teacher struggled to teach meaningful content. Then she began asking herself, "Who do I want my students to be when they leave my classroom?"

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 47, Summer 2014

Teaching Students to Be Advocates for Social Justice

A ZIP code shouldn’t determine the quality of a student’s education.

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Class

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Create Social and Emotional Safety Through Solidarity

In the latest LFJ article, school counseling professor Riley Drake, Ph.D., outlines a model of social and emotional learning and explains “‘feeling safe’ is contextual,” especially for Black and Brown children whose needs are often overlooked in our nation’s classrooms. Relying on community partnerships, promoting mutual aid to foster solidarity and advancing restorative justice are strategies educators and other adults can employ to increase children’s feelings of safety and well-being. These LFJ resources offer more detail.

Solidarity as Social and Emotional Safety
Black Minds Matter
Toolkit: The Foundations of Restorative Justice

January 23, 2023

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Fun Social Justice Activities for Elementary Students

Help young students learn the meaning and value of Identity, Diversity, Justice and Action—the four domains of the Learning for Justice Social Justice Standards. Find out how to implement these activities in your classroom with this exciting webinar!

March 23, 2018

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Beyond Rosa Parks: Powerful Voices for Civil Rights and Social Justice

Most history textbooks include a section about Rosa Parks in the chapter on the modern civil rights movement. However, Parks is only one among many African-American women who have worked for equal rights and social justice. This series introduces four of those activists who may be unfamiliar to students.

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6-8 9-12

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Gender & Sexual Identity

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Reading & Language Arts

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May 3, 2012

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Issue 62, Summer 2019

The Subscribed Classroom: Using Podcasts to Teach About Social Justice

Illustration of an open book where one of the pages is set up in the style of a podcast episode player.

More and more educators are turning to podcasts to bring new ideas, arguments and voices into their classrooms.

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October 4, 2019

Sacred Spaces and the Work of Social Justice Educators

Photograph of the Civil Rights Memorial wall and fountain. The words "...until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. —Martin Luther King Jr." appear plainly on the wall.

The Civil Rights Memorial sits near TT's office. As we celebrate the birthday of its designer, Maya Lin, a TT staffer reflects on this space and its connection to the work educators do every day.

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Rights & Activism

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May 13, 2024

Connecting the ‘Brown’ Decision to Today’s Social Justice Movement

Image of woman and child on the steps of the Supreme Court with a newspaper with headline about the Brown decision

Teach the Supreme Court’s decision in 'Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka' in all its complexity and relevance to the ongoing movement for inclusive education.

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Civil Rights Movement

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January 13, 2020

Teaching About King’s Radical Approach to Social Justice

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | Bettmann/Getty Images

While Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s work is often sugarcoated, it’s important to teach that King championed economic justice and taught Black self-love while also pushing back against neutrality, imperialism and systemic racism.

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Class Rights & Activism

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Issue 62, Summer 2019

Toolkit for “The Subscribed Classroom: Using Podcasts to Teach About Social Justice”

Before you introduce a podcast to your students, consider these steps and recommendations.

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