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Responding to Hate and Bias in the West
A Las Vegas school made headlines when hate shook its campus. Now a group of parents is fighting to ensure children learn in a safer and more equitable environment.
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Exploring Young Immigrant Stories
This lesson helps students appreciate diversity among their peers and the diversity of immigrants all over the world. Through hands-on exercises, students will discover similarities and differences they share with other children.
September 12, 2016
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Inclusive Education Means Safe, Welcoming Schools for All Students
Schools should be safe and welcoming for all children—on this point responsible adults agree. But currently, discriminatory laws and censorship policies threaten the well-being of children. LGBTQ+ young people and families are being targeted, along with Black, Indigenous and other people of color and members of historically marginalized groups, whose histories and experiences are being misrepresented and erased.
- Social Justice Standards
- A Refuge for LGBTQ+ Young People
- Speak Up at School
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Celebrating African and Indigenous Cultures
Conversations about African and Indigenous cultures are essential for learning about the history of our country and making connections with a broader world.
August 17, 2024
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Teaching Hard History Podcast Season 3: The Civil Rights Movement
Season 3: The Civil Rights Movement Season 3 focuses on the Black freedom struggle — or the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. In each episode we explore a different topic, walking you through historical concepts, raising
June 17, 2025
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African
This excerpt gives a first-person account of Equiano’s forced transatlantic voyage, including being brought on board, the horrors of being on deck and being sold in the yard once the ship reached land.
July 29, 2016
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Pets Make Great Teachers of Compassion
Children can learn a thing or two from pets. They learn responsibility through feeding and caring for their furry friends. They learn about loss when their pets die and they partake in their first funeral rites.
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Overcoming the Limits of Labels
There are some new labels kids have created for one another since I was in school. When I grew up, there were no skaters or noobs. No one was goth or emo. In my day, kids who wore collared shirts and madras were preppy. Kids who smoked cigarettes and listened to Led Zeppelin were burnouts. Jocks were still jocks, although the jocks of my youth were all-inclusive. Today, they separate themselves by sport.
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Dr. King’s Global Impact
When I teach lessons about Martin Luther King Jr., I always wonder exactly how students will connect with the events and themes. My adult students are refugees and immigrants from different cultural backgrounds. Some of them were cultural minorities in their countries. Others are experiencing racial discrimination for the first time in the United States.