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Teaching Digital and Civic Literacy Skills

Digital literacy is a set of critical skills students need to effectively evaluate information online and to keep themselves safe and their data secure. This edition of The Moment offers student-friendly videos, lessons for all grade levels and professional development for educators who want to hone their own digital literacy skills. 

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Mental Health and Support Are Always Important

Throughout May, we've been sharing resources supporting educator and student mental health. Now, as Mental Health Awareness Month comes to a close, we hope you'll commit to integrating mental health literacy into your curricula and normalizing discussions of mental health and wellness year round.

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Angela Hartman

Angela is the librarian for the secondary campuses of Hutto Independent School District. She has been a librarian for 24 years at the elementary, middle school and high school levels. Hartman is a member of the Holocaust Education Network of the Olga Lengyel Institute and has extensive training in Holocaust education. She plans and coordinates campus, district and community-wide programs that focus on civil rights, social justice and Holocaust education. Hartman is also a member of the Teaching Tolerance Advisory Board.
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Kelly Griffith

Kelly Griffith is a middle school social studies teacher in Brownsville, Texas—a city on the U.S.–Mexico border. She graduated with a B.A. in Political Science and Education and a Master's in Education from the University of Notre Dame. She is a recent graduate of the Alliance for Catholic Education program at the University of Notre Dame. She teaches history through a lens of literacy and is particularly passionate about the education of English language learners. Griffith is the recipient of the Charles Redd Center Teaching Western History Award and the Brownsville Rotary Endowment for
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Advocating for Undocumented Youth

With conditions at detention centers and plans for more ICE raids in the news, it’s easy to feel hopeless. But, as educators, you have more power than you may realize. These resources outline practical steps you can take today to interrupt the school-to-deportation pipeline and support undocumented students and their families.