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Back to School: Teach and Advocate for Honest History and Inclusive Education

Education censorship and discriminatory book bans—like the policies pushed by politicians in Florida—are undemocratic and threaten children’s well-being and right to learn. As students head back to school, let us all commit to supporting honest history and inclusive curricula. These LFJ resources support educators in teaching truth and parents and caregivers in advocating for inclusive education.

Teaching Hard History: Grades K-5
Queer People Have Always Existed—Teach Like It
History Moves With Us

August 21, 2023

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Young, Gifted and Black: Teaching Freedom Summer to K-5 Students

Episode 11, Season 3 Teaching civil rights history to young learners creates both opportunities and challenges. The 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project and the subsequent Freedom Schools offer important lessons for

January 26, 2021

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Issue 62, Summer 2019

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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Walking in Their Shoes: Using #BlackLivesMatter to Teach the Civil Rights Movement

Episode 16, Season 3 The civil rights movement offers critical context for understanding the systemic police violence, voter suppression efforts, ‘law and order’ rhetoric and criminalization of activism we see today. It

April 13, 2021

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Teaching Hard History Podcast Season 4: The Jim Crow Era

Season 4: The Jim Crow Era Season 4 examines the century between the Civil War and the modern civil rights movement to understand how systemic racism and slavery persisted and evolved after emancipation—and how Black

June 17, 2025

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March 22, 2018

What Love, Simon Can Teach Us About Classroom Conversations

For the first time, a rom-com from a major studio is helping gay and bi teens feel seen—and celebrated. Teachers have an opportunity to do the same.

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Gender & Sexual Identity

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Issue 41, Spring 2012

And the Winners Are...

Meet five educators chosen for the first-ever Teaching Tolerance awards.

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Autographs for Freedom

An anti-slavery poem by Harriet Beecher Stowe from 1852.

“Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Thirty-five other Eminent Writers.”

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Slavery

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History

December 13, 2017

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Informational

I Didn't Know There Were Cities in Africa: Challenging Children's-and Adult's-Misperceptions about the African Continent

In her article, Randolph delineates the profound impact of perpetuating stereotypical representations of Africa and its people by arranging them into three levels and then providing recommendations for how to combat them when creating learning experiences for students in the United States.

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9-12

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Immigration

Subject

History

Geography

September 28, 2018

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March 26, 2019

Teaching First-Graders About Microaggressions: The Small Moments Add Up

Two young students reading separate books.

For younger students, understanding that identity-based microaggressions pose a heavier burden than other painful moments is critical to developing anti-racist, empathetic behaviors.

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Religion Class Gender & Sexual Identity Bullying & Bias

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