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The Burden of Critical Active Conscience
This educator calls on all educators to commit to making schools—at all levels—critical active conscience spaces that center people long denied space, voice and freedom.
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Put Abilities on the Multicultural Spectrum
Three tips for making sure your classroom is inclusive of students with a variety of abilities.
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Toolkit for “Just Science”
This toolkit accompanies the article “Just Science,” and provides a classroom resource to help students probe deeper to discover the social and ethical implications of topics in science.
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October Is LGBTQ History Month!
Educators can use these LFJ resources to recognize, remember and teach intersectional LGBTQ history, including the experiences of young LGBTQ people of color. And this One World poster features a beautiful and timely message from Audre Lorde to inspire your students—all year long.
- Honoring LGBTQ Voices During Hispanic Heritage Month
- Seeing ALL Identities of LGBTQ Youth of Color
- Audre Lorde
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Street Justice
The distrust between the Jewish community and African-American community in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn in the 1990s reached an all-time high when a runaway car struck two children.
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‘Bibi,’ Complete Sentences and the Stories Students Need
LFJ is proud to introduce our short film, ‘Bibi.’ Here‘s the value it holds for students.
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Stream ‘Bibi,’ our Newest Film
Teaching Tolerance’s new streaming classroom film, Bibi, is a story about the intersection of family, identity and belonging. As TT Senior Writer Cory Collins writes, Bibi explores “the beauty and conflict that can arise as we move between languages, places and societal expectations.” Help students explore their identities with this moving film and accompanying lessons for grades 6-12.
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- ‘Bibi,’ Complete Sentences and the Stories Students Need
- ‘Bibi’ Lesson 1: What Makes Us Who We Are?
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Are You Ready to Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month?
September 15 through October 15 is National Hispanic Heritage Month! To help you celebrate and honor Hispanic Heritage Month with your students, we’ve compiled some of our favorite resources for bringing Latinx voices to the classroom. We hope these help you uplift a diverse range of intersectional Hispanic and Latinx identities, experiences, cultures and histories.
- Unmaking “Hispanic”: Teaching the Creation of Hispanic Identity
- Latinx History Is Black History
- Bibi
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Diversifying Classroom Texts
Join antiracist education experts Dr. Sonja Cherry-Paul and Tricia Ebarvia together with Learning for Justice for this thought-provoking webinar highlighting the importance of diversifying classroom texts.
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Turning Headlines into Impromptu Lessons
The explosion of news coverage over the controversial execution of Troy Davis in Georgia recently is a reminder that our students learn powerful lessons outside our classrooms. These events offer opportunities for lessons of context inside our classrooms.
