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"I've never experienced white guilt."
A black teacher reflects on helping her white students explore their racial identities.
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Digging Deep Into the Social Justice Standards: Justice
Help students recognize both justice and injustice so they can celebrate justice and also call out injustice when they see it.
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Leading Conversations After Crisis
Our advisory board shared ideas for starting discussions the day after the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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Visibility is Power
Elementary educator Skye Tooley emphasizes the power of LGBTQ+ visibility in fostering positive spaces of understanding and empathy where all students feel visible and accepted.
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The Privacy Paradox
This lesson teaches students to understand the impact of online actions on their personal privacy.
September 26, 2017
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Yaki’s Mural
Yaki struggles to feel at home in her new country and her new school, but her creativity and Mayan culture help to ease the transition.
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Walking with the Wind
In this excerpt from his book, Walking with the Wind, John Lewis describes his involvement in the sit-ins in Nashville, Tenn., in the spring of 1960.
August 9, 2017
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Getting on the Right Track: How One School Stopped Tracking Students
Tracking and ability grouping remain common practices in schools across the country despite research showing these practices contribute to segregated classes and opportunity gaps. In Walla Walla, Washington, a group of educators decided to try something different.
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Recognizing Caregivers as Funds of Knowledge
When educators take the time to build and sustain engagement with students’ caregivers, they illustrate social justice in action, showing students that their identities and living situations are valuable and worthy of understanding.
May 26, 2023
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The Fight for Ethnic Studies
Across the country, advocates are working to ensure K-12 students have the opportunity to take ethnic studies courses.