New Opportunities for Back to School
A new year offers new opportunities to create the schools our students deserve: spaces where all identities are respected and where injustice is named and addressed. If you, like us, are starting the school year with a recommitment to equity, these resources can help you get started with a policy check-up.
Controlling the Student Body
Best Practices for Serving LGBTQ Students
Serving ELL Students and Families
New Resources for Teaching Hard History
Our students deserve an honest account of our nation’s history. That’s why we’re proud to share our new and expanded Teaching Hard History resources. They will help you tell a more complete story of American slavery that starts with Indigenous enslavement and includes students of all ages. To teach our students the truth about our shared hard history, we’ll need to start where the stories—and the learning—begin.
Teaching Hard History: American Slavery | Classroom Videos
Teaching Hard History: Grades K-5
Teaching Hard History: Grades 6–12
Remembering Charlottesville
August 12 marks the second anniversary of the deadly Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville. As we mourn last week’s attacks along with communities in California, Texas and Ohio—and across the United States—we hold all survivors in our hearts. In this edition of The Moment, we share three stories from Charlottesville—stories of a mother, a student and a district that responded to hate with not only love but with a commitment to justice.
We Were Ready
Charlottesville’s Zyahna Bryant Shall Lead
From Charlottesville to Montgomery: Susan Bro on Her Activist Work
Responding to the Mississippi ICE Raid
Yesterday, students were pulled from their first day of classes to say goodbye to undocumented parents and guardians arrested by ICE. Our thoughts are with educators and families across Mississippi and with those dealing with this trauma in the aftermath of anti-immigrant violence in El Paso. Yesterday’s raid was the largest single-state raid in U.S. history, but we know that these raids will continue. We hope these resources help you support your students and their families.
This Is Not a Drill
Toolkit for "This Is Not a Drill"
Educators Resist East Tennessee ICE Raid
Responding to Attacks in El Paso and Dayton
We join you in mourning those lost to violence this weekend. Like many of you, we’re feeling angry, exhausted and heartbroken. We take some solace in offering these resources for supporting your students and communities and for doing what you can to fight hate before it turns violent. After losses like these, we know we must move forward. But we refuse to move on.