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Captured Images
A Vermont artist brings students face-to-face with her enslaved ancestors.
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Section Two: When There's a Crisis
What Has Happened? A Latine student and an Asian student have an argument that escalates into screamed slurs and a physical scuffle, observed by more than 50 classmates. An opposing football team refuses to take the
August 27, 2012
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Jimmie Lee Jackson
This essay details Jimmie Lee Jackson’s involvement in the voting rights movement and his violent death at the hands of Alabama state troopers.
March 10, 2016
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Gillette’s New Ad Asks: “Is Toxic Masculinity the Best a Man Can Get?”
A new ad has everyone talking about gender norms. Here’s how you can bring that conversation to your students.
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Podcast Professional Development
Earn professional development credit when you listen to episodes from any of our podcasts! Fill out a short form featuring an episode-specific question to receive a certificate. Teaching Hard History What we don’t know
September 17, 2021
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Mary Church Terrell
In this lesson of the series, “Beyond Rosa Parks: Powerful Voices for Civil Rights and Social Justice,” students will read and analyze text from “The Progress of Colored Women,” a speech made by Mary Church Terrell in 1898. Terrell was the first president of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW), an organization that was formed in 1896 from the merger of several smaller women’s clubs, and was active during the period of Jim Crow segregation in the South.
May 11, 2012
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How My Third-Graders and I Address Consent
A TT Award winner shares how she teaches her elementary students about consent throughout the year. It’s not too early—or too late—to start.
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Summer Violence and Educator Silence
One principal questions the value of educator conferences that focus on “student voice” without recognizing the social contexts in which voices struggle to be heard.
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Learning for Justice 2025 Wrapped
“The ebbs and flows of history show us how oppressed groups have shifted power to advance our civil and human rights. The challenge of our time is who will control the political power so democracy is fully realized and all our humanity is fully recovered.”
— Jalaya Liles Dunn, Director, Learning for Justice, from “Making Recovery Last: A Season for Radical Reconstruction”
- The Roles and Responsibilities of the President
- Understanding the Role and Responsibilities of the Department of Education
- Why the 1965 Voting Rights Act Is Crucial for Democracy
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Maya Angelou
This lesson focuses on questions of identity as students read and analyze Angelou’s inspirational poem “Still I Rise” and apply its message to their own lives. Students learn how Maya Angelou overcame hardship and discrimination to find her own voice and to influence others to believe in themselves and use their voices for positive change.
May 3, 2012