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December 28, 2017

Starting With Ourselves: Preparing for Tough Classroom Conversations

This school administrator offers recommendations for setting up courageous conversations in the new year, with discussions among colleagues as the first step.

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Issue 66, Spring 2021

It Was Always About Control

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When schools closed due to coronavirus, educators and students made big changes to adapt to distance learning. Too many policies didn’t change at all.

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Issue 60, Fall 2018

And the Winners Are...

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Meet the recipients of the 2018 Teaching Tolerance Award for Excellence in Teaching.

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An Evening With Michelle Alexander

Join Learning for Justice and Michelle Alexander, author of ‘The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness’, to discuss her timely book and suggestions to introduce high school students to topics such as mass incarceration and racial caste.

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Rights & Activism

September 23, 2014

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Teaching Hard History Podcast

Learning for Justice is relaunching the Teaching Hard History podcast series with host Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Ph.D., to resist current efforts to erase and alter our nation’s history.

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Slavery and the Civil War, Part 1
Teaching Hard History: American Slavery |Key Concepts Videos

June 23, 2025

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July 16, 2020

Confronting the Weaponization of Whiteness in Classrooms

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As viral racist incidents quickly disappear from public discourse, we challenge white teachers to keep those moments top of mind and reflect on their own biased behaviors in classrooms.

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Katie Mgongolwa

Katie is a high school writing and English teacher at The Hill Center, a K–12 school for children with learning differences in Durham, North Carolina. She previously taught at a middle school in Boston and at a secondary school in rural Tanzania. Mgongolwa has a passion for diversifying curricula, helping students and teachers develop strategies for courageous conversations, and working with schools to close the opportunity gap.

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Issue 57, Fall 2017

What We're Reading

Our book reviews can help you keep your practice fresh and informed.

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Issue 65, Fall 2020

School as Sanctuary

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Immigrant and refugee students and families are under threat. Many schools have joined a movement to protect them.

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December 14, 2015

Islamophobia Undermines Religious Freedom

If you don’t teach your students about Islamophobia, someone else will. These resources can help you set the record straight about a major religion that’s currently under attack.

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Religion Bullying & Bias