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Diverting the Pipeline Happens in Shifts
The Departments of Education and Justice have taken steps to help schools divert the school-to-prison pipeline. How will your school respond?
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Heritage Months: Hard to Handle?
Heritage months offer opportunities to model yearlong inclusive teaching practices.
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Recognizing the Essential Self
Check out this educator’s suggestions for recognizing and honoring the uniqueness of each student.
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Hate Speech Overheard
When students see you ignore hateful language, they are learning an important lesson—and not the kind you want them to learn.
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What Would You Do?
The TT audience weighed in on a school dilemma ripped from the headlines: ‘Students petition to display Confederate flag at school, turn in 300 signatures.’
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The Activist Award Essay
To close an English unit on social activism, this teacher had her students reflect by recognizing and writing about the activist potential in their classmates.
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Gloria and Rosa Make Beautiful Music
Two friends who attend different schools in the same community learn that one of their schools has no instruments for their music program, while the other has multiple different kinds. They use their friendship and musical abilities to confront this inequity and try to bring about change.
May 19, 2017
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Part II: Spotlights
This section of the guide describes three different social justice reading groups. These groups will give you a sense of the different structures and approaches families and communities are using to read and talk about
October 16, 2019
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Leading Conversations After Crisis
Our advisory board shared ideas for starting discussions the day after the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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Northwest Community Organization pamphlet, 12th Street Detroit
In response to the 1967 Detroit Race Riots (which took place during the “Long, hot summer of 1967”) the Northwest Community Organization worked to address some of the underlying issues that persisted in urban areas, like residential segregation.
July 18, 2022