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Heritage Months: Hard to Handle?
Heritage months offer opportunities to model yearlong inclusive teaching practices.
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Start Planning Now: Hispanic Heritage Month
Cultural celebrations give students a chance to shine and benefit schools all year long.
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American Gothic
A new curriculum explores a disturbing side of the Progressive Era.
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Who Are American Muslims?
Why is anti-Muslim bias on the rise in the United States? How much do your students know about Islam and its followers? Explore these questions with two student-friendly videos.
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The burden of being a young American Muslim
Hailey Woldt describes being a part of a research team that traveled to 75 cities and visited 100 mosques as part of a study on Muslims living in a post-9/11 America. In Brooklyn, a ten-year-old boy tells of being beaten, prevented from practicing his religion in peace and called a terroist.
July 3, 2014
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Reflecting on the "American Dream"
What do we mean by the “American Dream”? This educator has some ideas for meaningfully engaging students with this topic.
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Question the American Dream
One teacher considers how to talk with students about the idea of the American Dream.
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A Backlash Against Arab Americans
In this essay, the author details how tension built and violence erupted—specifically against Muslim Americans—in the days following the September 11th attacks.
June 20, 2016
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Catch Up on LFJ Webinars
Did you miss out on our live webinars this year? Take some time this summer to watch them on demand!
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Celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month is September 15 through October 15. And while we’re grateful for teachers who respect and uplift the identities of all of their students year-round, we also appreciate heritage months that offer a special opportunity to celebrate—and center—marginalized identities. To kick off the celebration in your classroom or school, here are a few of our favorite resources for honoring, learning and teaching about Hispanic heritage.
- Mariposas
- Unmaking “Hispanic”: Teaching the Creation of Hispanic Identity
- Honoring LGBTQ Voices During Hispanic Heritage Month
