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Rick Mula

Rick Mula is an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center. The aim of Rick’s fellowship project is to reduce the discrimination that LGBT youth living in Tennessee and Alabama experience in the education, child welfare and juvenile justice systems. His fellowship is sponsored by the Mansfield Family Foundation. Rick graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2015 where he received a graduate certificate in gender, sexuality and women’s studies. Rick was also awarded the Dean Jefferson B. Fordham Human Rights Award and the Blank Rome Alvin Ackerman

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Critical Practices for Anti-bias Education: Family and Community Engagement

Develop strategies to tap into family and community wisdom; develop strategies to tap into local resources; develop strategies to increase connections among families; identify community issues that impact classroom culture; and identify methods of culturally sensitive communication.

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Family & Community Engagement

May 9, 2014

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April 14, 2015

Sexual Assault Awareness Month

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Use this opportunity to engage your students in upending rape culture and preventing sexual assault all year.

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 50, Summer 2015

Toolkit for Making Space

This toolkit describes how affinity groups help marginalized students to be seen and heard, and provides step-by-step recommendations on how to launch an affinity group—or revamp one that already exists—at your school.

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December 2, 2015

Five Steps for Starting a Human Rights Club

A leading scholar on human rights education shares some try-tomorrow strategies for starting a human rights club at your high school. Pocket these ideas for Human Rights Day on December 10—and beyond.

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 42, Fall 2012

Confronting White Privilege

Illustration of a student walking upside down

Many affluent students are oblivious to issues of race and class. Here are two teaching strategies designed to open their eyes.

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Race & Ethnicity

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Section IV: Family and Community Engagement

Being an ally to LGBTQ students means bringing people in and reaching out. With these tips, we hope you can create a community within and beyond the school that helps all families feel valued and helps all students feel

October 31, 2018

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Issue 41, Spring 2012

Out of Bounds

Sports rivalries can energize school spirit. But keeping events respectful takes a dynamic blend of foresight, leadership and buy-in from the community.

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Bullying & Bias

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Appendix B

LGBTQ Historical Figures The erasure of LGBTQ figures from our history books and classrooms does a disservice to students on three fronts: 1) It introduces bias into our studies, providing an incomplete and unfair

November 7, 2018

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Issue 25, Spring 2004

Brown v. Board: An American Legacy

Historical photo of an African American family outside of a house

What 'Brown v. Board' meant to the United States.

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