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Educators and Their #Community: Finding Solidarity on Social Media
How social justice educators are using social media to find support, a platform and PD.
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I See You, You See Me: Body Image and Social Justice
This series help students think about their bodies and body images in a social justice context. Each lesson looks at a different aspect of the relationship children have with their bodies. The series helps students take ownership over their own feelings and attitudes and develop an activist stance in terms of understanding body image and also looking after their own physical and emotional wellbeing.
November 27, 2012
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Teaching Social Justice in Elementary Music Class
With 40 minutes—or fewer—to spend with students each week, this elementary music teacher struggled to teach meaningful content. Then she began asking herself, "Who do I want my students to be when they leave my classroom?"
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Existence Is Resistance: Supporting Student-led Social Change
As we encourage students to take action against injustice, what are we doing to support them in this work? An educator offers five practical lessons she’s learned in doing just that.
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The Power of Place: Art as a Tool for Social Justice
Alabama artists are depicting honest history and challenging historical invisibility—reshaping public narratives of justice in their communities.
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Create Social and Emotional Safety Through Solidarity
In the latest LFJ article, school counseling professor Riley Drake, Ph.D., outlines a model of social and emotional learning and explains “‘feeling safe’ is contextual,” especially for Black and Brown children whose needs are often overlooked in our nation’s classrooms. Relying on community partnerships, promoting mutual aid to foster solidarity and advancing restorative justice are strategies educators and other adults can employ to increase children’s feelings of safety and well-being. These LFJ resources offer more detail.
- Solidarity as Social and Emotional Safety
- Black Minds Matter
- Toolkit: The Foundations of Restorative Justice
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Fun Social Justice Activities for Elementary Students
Help young students learn the meaning and value of Identity, Diversity, Justice and Action—the four domains of the Learning for Justice Social Justice Standards. Find out how to implement these activities in your classroom with this exciting webinar!
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The Subscribed Classroom: Using Podcasts to Teach About Social Justice
More and more educators are turning to podcasts to bring new ideas, arguments and voices into their classrooms.
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Making Our Stance on Social Justice Education Explicit
What is the power of communities and organizations coming together to explicitly communicate a common social justice education message? It can grow our collective capacity to make positive change.
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Sacred Spaces and the Work of Social Justice Educators
The Civil Rights Memorial sits near TT's office. As we celebrate the birthday of its designer, Maya Lin, a TT staffer reflects on this space and its connection to the work educators do every day.
