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‘Selma Online’: Young People Impact the Vote
Use TT’s new resource ‘Selma Online’ to help students build decision-making, leadership, activism and civic engagement skills at their own pace.
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Black History Month: Teaching the Complete History
Go beyond trauma and struggle to examine the liberation, civic engagement, creativity and intersecting identities of Black people during Black History Month.
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Teaching About King’s Radical Approach to Social Justice
While Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s speeches and work are 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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Land of Freedom: Civil Rights Movement in East Alabama
In this high-school, classroom-level grant, students researched the history of the fight for civil rights in their region and shared their findings with their community.
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Empowering Teachers to Become Activists
After noticing tension within their school community, teachers, students and staff planned a one-day workshop for local educators called “Understanding the Muslim American Experience: Leadership Training.”
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“I See New York City as a Classroom”
TT Educator Grants support social justice work at the classroom, school and district levels. School Programs Coordinator Jey Ehrenhalt spoke with Abby MacPhail about her project training students to become photojournalists of housing injustice in New York City.
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Voting and Democracy Grants in Action: Connecting to Our Past and Creating Our Present
TT Voting and Democracy Grants fund projects that encourage students to become empowered advocates for voting in their communities. Grantee Alexandra Melnick explains the project she’ll be implementing in her 12th-grade classroom this fall.
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Spotlight on Whose Renaissance?
TT Educator Grants support social justice work at the classroom, school and district levels. Grants Manager Jey Ehrenhalt spoke with Chris Dolgos about his project investigating the equity of urban renewal.