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Black History Month: Teaching Beyond Slavery
Avoid minimizing Black history; include the full human experience beyond enslavement.
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Revisiting the Summer Issue of Teaching Tolerance Magazine
The Summer issue of Teaching Tolerance is available online! In addition to these stories, this issue highlights expert voices on teaching about American slavery and Reconstruction, asks three young gun violence activists about the future of the resistance, and much, much more. It also features one of our all-time favorite One World posters (available in both English and Spanish!).
- The Opioid Crisis
- (In)Visible Identity
- SMS SOS
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Appropriate Ways to Teach Kids About Slavery
This week, a photograph of a math assignment asking fifth graders to set prices for enslaved people went viral. Assignments like this are clearly harmful. But students can learn about slavery in ways that recover the lives and histories of enslaved people or dehumanize them; celebrate their resistance or erase their agency; recognize how slavery shaped our nation or ignore it completely. Educators can teach this hard history—and teach it well—in any discipline, to students of almost any age. Here are a few examples of how.
- How Did Sugar Feed Slavery?
- Sample Lessons
- Teaching Hard History: Grades K-5
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Black History Month: Teaching the Complete History
Go beyond trauma and struggle to examine the liberation, civic engagement, creativity and intersecting identities of Black people during Black History Month.
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Teaching 'The New Jim Crow' with Michelle Alexander
This webinar walks participants through the teaching guide for Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. The guide provides resources and support educators and students need to explore the critical social justice issues at the center of Alexander's work.
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More Than a Name: Teaching Historic Firsts
When teaching students about barrier breakers, don’t just teach “who”; teach “why.”
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Teaching Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage
In honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, join LFJ in unpacking the origins, meaning and contemporary impact of the term "Asian American Pacific Islander." We will also break down the model minority myth and provide educators with resources to effectively teach AAPI history.
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A Quick Reference Guide to Teaching Hard History
[2022] LFJ's framework for teaching about American slavery can be used to supplement current curriculum or to guide the creation of new curriculum that more honestly and courageously tells the story of American slavery.
July 6, 2022
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Presenting Teaching Tolerance's Digital Literacy Framework
The need for digital literacy is acute and vital in today’s world. Our new initiative can help prepare students to navigate this world.
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Teaching the Truth About Native American History
When it comes to Native American history and culture, many textbooks are light on relevant content. Learn about a new Smithsonian program and state initiatives designed to support robust, accurate teaching about Native history and contemporary issues.
- Q&A: Native Knowledge 360°
- Rewriting History—for the Better
- Teaching Thanksgiving in a Socially Responsible Way