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Community Inquiry

Value Lines

Students take a stance on a topic related to the central text and listen while classmates explain their stances.
Grade Level
3-5
CCSS
RL.3-5.1, RI.3-5.1, SL.3-5.1, SL.3-5.3, SL.3-5.6
July 13, 2014
the moment

Advocating for Honest History Education

Parent and caregiver advocacy is crucial as children’s right to inclusive learning and honest history education is being limited in some states and communities. While the media often highlights the vocal efforts of a few politically motivated parents’ groups to censor teaching and to exclude some children and families from representation, we know that most parents and caregivers support fair and inclusive education practices that protect the learning and well-being of all children.

  • Advocating for Honest History Education: A Resource for Parents and Caregivers
  • Advocating for Teaching Honest History: What Educators Can Do
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Reframing the Movement

Episode 1, Season 3 Teaching the civil rights movement accurately and effectively requires deconstructing the myths and misconceptions around it. Most people are familiar with a very specific version of the movement that
August 5, 2020
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Jamilah Pitts

Jamilah Pitts is an educator, writer, social entrepreneur and yoga teacher whose work centers the liberation, healing and holistic development of communities of the global majority. She has served in various roles and spaces to promote racial justice and healing as a teacher, coach, assistant principal and as a dean. She has worked in educational spaces domestically in Massachusetts and New York, and internationally in the Dominican Republic, China and India. As the founder and CEO of Jamilah Pitts Consulting, she partners with schools, universities, organizations and communities to advance
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Edna Brown

Edna Brown is a veteran English Language Arts teacher, essayist, poet and social justice advocate residing in St. Louis. She began her career with a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Maryville University and teaching adults with disabilities in one of the first community-based group homes in the St. Louis metropolitan area. Edna went on to study social work at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University. Finally, she earned master’s degrees in both Secondary Education (Curriculum and Instruction) and English (Composition) from the University of Missouri, St. Louis
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John Heffernan

Before joining Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, Heffernan was the director of the Genocide Prevention Initiative at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. As a senior investigator with Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), he led three investigations to the Darfur region of Sudan and was the lead author of PHR’s report, Assault on Survival. Previously, he served as the Chief of Party for the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs in Guyana. In 1995, Heffernan helped establish and run, as executive director, the Coalition for International Justice, a Washington, D.C.-based
the moment

Inclusive Education Means Safe, Welcoming Schools for All Students

Schools should be safe and welcoming for all children—on this point responsible adults agree. But currently, discriminatory laws and censorship policies threaten the well-being of children. LGBTQ+ young people and families are being targeted, along with Black, Indigenous and other people of color and members of historically marginalized groups, whose histories and experiences are being misrepresented and erased.

  • Social Justice Standards
  • A Refuge for LGBTQ+ Young People
  • Speak Up at School