This lesson leads students to analyze the nature of hate and explore legislation that addresses hate crimes.

Using Editorial Cartoons to Teach Social Justice is a series of 14 lessons. Each lesson helps build students’ background knowledge about a particular social justice issue.

A recent wave of noose incidents – particularly those on school campuses – has raised alarm among adults and questions from young people.

This lesson explores the complexities of a situation in which immigrant students attend a school that is plagued with racially motivated violence. Working in small groups and as a class, students will discuss possible solutions and outcomes and apply their problem-solving skills to issues affecting their own school and community.

The purpose of this activity is to take a look at one of the most famous hate groups, try to understand why its members believe the way they do and learn what can be done to stop hate groups from returning to their historic levels of power and influence.

This lesson leads students to analyze the nature of hate and explore legislation that addresses hate crimes.

In this lesson, students will examine the cliques within their school community. They will also explore ways to integrate the student body and form relationships across, and in spite of, controlling cliques.

These activities ask students to engage with the question of what an equitable school calendar looks like and how to make their own school calendar more inclusive.

This lesson explores the debate about whether public schools, which typically close on major Christian and Jewish holidays, should also shutter for important celebrations in other faiths.

We often teach our students that school segregation ended with Brown v. Board of Education, but the reality is not quite that simple. While schools today are not segregated by law, segregated housing patterns and unequal funding systems have concentrated students of color into underfunded, under-equipped institutions that some critics call “apartheid schools.”