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Creating and Upholding Just Systems
Social justice leadership includes regularly assessing and improving systems and structures that promote student well-being and equity—in both experiences and outcomes.
May 26, 2023
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Dancing with Languages
Lilia E. Sarmiento, a scholar and expert in biliteracy, shares a personal story about the challenges and joys — and ultimate effectiveness — of bilingual education.
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Gender Trouble
This article discusses the some of the issues that can arise when institutions attempt to address the complexities of the gender spectrum.
July 5, 2014
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Class Meetings Build Community, Safe Zone
The class was silent as we waited for Samuel to collect himself. It was a respectful silence that happens when everyone knows something powerful is taking place. Samuel’s elbows were on his knees, his head was down. A few tears had fallen. Our chairs were placed in a circle. A sign posted on our classroom wall read, “Every person in this community is as important as every other person.” We were in the middle of our weekly class meeting, a time when we acknowledge conflicts and work to resolve them as a group. The current topic: name-calling and disrespectful speech.
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Future Voters Project: Including All Students
These recommendations will help ensure that no student feels excluded or singled out during your school’s voter registration drive.
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Toolkit for "A Teacher's Guide to Rerouting the Pipeline"
This toolkit explains five “shifts” classroom teachers can make in their teaching practices and their interactions with students to help disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline.
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Parallels Between Mass Incarceration and Jim Crow
What are the most salient similarities between mass incarceration and Jim Crow? Mass incarceration is a system of racialized social control that, like slavery and Jim Crow before it, operates to discriminate and create a stigmatized racial group locked into an inferior position by law and custom.
October 14, 2014
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