Search

Type
Grade Level
Social Justice Domain
Subject
Topic

596 Results

author

Romina Pacheco

Romina Pacheco (she/ella) is the director of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging at the Windward School. She is an educator who facilitates learning on issues of equity and social justice with professionals, students and community members of all ages. Romina has decades of experience in educational leadership, including serving as an internal and external DEIB expert in K-12, higher ed and nonprofit settings. Romina has a Ph.D. from New Mexico State University in curriculum and instruction and gender and sexuality studies and an M.Ed. in social justice education from the University of
the moment

Teach MLK in Connection With the Attack on the U.S. Capitol

The same day a Black man and a Jewish man were voted into the U.S. Senate, a mob toting Confederate and Nazi flags attacked the U.S. Capitol. As you teach about Martin Luther King Jr. ahead of his birthday observation, acknowledge the link between the racism he resisted and the violence we witnessed at the Capitol. These resources will help foster related discussions within the context of U.S. history.

  • The Problem With the “Disney Version of History”
  • Teaching About King’s Radical Approach to Social Justice
  • From MLK to #BlackLivesMatter: A Throughline for Young Students
page

Jim Crow: Yesterday and Today

Episode 1, Season 4 This season, we’re examining 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
August 25, 2021
the moment

Democracy in Action: A New Issue of ‘Teaching Tolerance’ Magazine

During a season of protests and pandemic, our Fall 2020 magazine is here. Dive in to discover how students and educators are fighting for our rights, and how they’ve always done so. Here, we’ve highlighted an illuminating interview with This Book Is Anti-Racist author Tiffany Jewell, about engaging children and young people in anti-racism, and a Story Corner for young readers, about speaking up against Coronavirus racism. We hope you find value in these stories—and in every story in our new issue.

  • Issue 65, Fall 2020
  • This Conversation Is Anti-Racist
  • Min Jee’s Lunch
the moment

Celebrate Pride 2022 with Ongoing Resistance, Activism and Solidarity

We are celebrating Pride 2022 in the shadow of hundreds of anti-LGBTQ bills, anti-CRT legislation (prohibiting teaching about racism) and assaults on reproductive rights aimed at silencing and disenfranchising people—all coordinated efforts in a backlash against gains in social justice and equity. As we celebrate a legacy of courage, resilience and strength, let us commit to building coalitions of justice, to being allies to one another. We know from experience that freedom and justice require ongoing resistance, activism and solidarity.

  • Queer People Have Always Existed—Teach Like It
  • Teaching Stonewall
  • Queer America Podcast
the moment

Youth Activism and the Movement for Justice

Young people have always met challenges head-on, and contemporary youth activists have an ever-increasing set of issues to address—ongoing systemic racism, economic inequality, gun violence, reproductive and human rights, an accelerating climate crisis and more. The unwavering support of committed adults can help young people in their endeavors to realize their power and promote justice.
 
To today’s youth activists: We see you, we celebrate you and we encourage your work. You are the agents of change for the future.     

  • End Poverty. PERIOD.
  • Don’t Stop Talking About Gun Violence