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Social and Emotional Support

Research shows that students need to feel physically and emotionally supported to learn, but culture, climate and social emotional learning must focus on more than just empathy, kindness and inclusion.

May 26, 2023

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July 28, 2023

A Letter to Young People on Your Power to Effect Change

A young Black woman standing in front of a voting booth.

Recognize the possibilities of the power of the vote, encourage your friends and family to engage in civic action, and become a change agent in your community.

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 61, Spring 2019

Carol Anderson on Voter Suppression: A Q&A with the Author of ‘One Person, No Vote’

Professor and author Carol Anderson explains how voter suppression remains alive and well—and how it’s hurting us all.

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Issue 61, Spring 2019

Digging Deep Into the Social Justice Standards: Identity

In the first PD Café in our series about the LFJ Social Justice Standards, learn how to help your students dig deep on the concept of identity.

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May 24, 2022

Where Do We Go From Here?

Flying wish lanterns being released against a night sky.

LFJ Director Jalaya Liles Dunn explains that "Education is not merely a way of upward mobility for the individual, it is a way of collective movement."

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Rights & Activism

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Creating a Culture: The Music of Enslaved People

When Africans were brought to American shores in chains, they brought pieces of Africa with them and used their traditions, music and culture to help them survive.

Rebecca Bodenheimer

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Slavery

Subject

History

January 8, 2019

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Issue 36, Fall 2009

Inclusion on the Bookshelf

Teaching Tolerance illustration with kids with disabilities floating surrounded by open books

In fiction, children with disabilities are often still segregated, labeled, lonely and lost. These titles will help bring your school’s library into the age of inclusion.

Topic

Ability

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Issue 38, Fall 2010

High Tech in Small Places

Illustration of a bus on a road of binary code

Computers and the Internet help rural schools bridge vast distances—both geographically and culturally. But the growing use of technology can create new problems as it solves old ones.

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June 16, 2011

Compassion, Action and Change

One recent November, a discussion about plants as a food source led Cowley's first-grade class to talk about hunger. The class decided to bake pies and cookies to deliver to a local church's Thanksgiving dinner for

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Why Frogs and Snakes Never Play Together A Pourquoi of Prejudice A PLAY IN 3 ACTS

A chance meeting of a family of frogs and a family of snakes in the woods one day allows wonderful new friendships to be made. Later, when the siblings tell their parents about their new friends, they are told never to play together again. Find out why in this easy-to-produce play that teaches about the serious topic of prejudice.

Jeff Sapp

Grade Level

K-2

Topic

Bullying & Bias

Subject

Civics

Geography

July 5, 2014

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