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Talla Cisse

Talla Cisse is an educator and graduate student in Wilmington, Delaware, and a 2019 Lee Summer Fellow at Teaching Tolerance. Talla taught American history as a founding teacher for Apex Collegiate Academy in Baton Rouge. He is currently pursuing a master’s degree in policy at the University of Delaware. In his free time, Talla works with the Delaware Youth Advocacy Council students to develop a deep understanding of the landscape of education policy and the advocacy process.

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War with Mexico

In his editorial, Douglass argues that the Mexican War was a mechanism to expand slavery.

Frederick Douglass

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Slavery

Subject

History

January 5, 2018

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Issue 2, Spring 2022

Going Beyond the Textbook

Illustration of students emerging from under a giant book.

Teachers are using the textbook—and going beyond it—to change history education from the ground up.

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Teaching Hard History: Grades K-5

Our youngest students deserve a truthful, age-appropriate account of our past. These resources for elementary educators include a first-of-its-kind framework.

May 28, 2019

webinar

The Color of Law

Join Learning for Justice and Director Maureen Costello as we explore the role of U.S. segregation in everything from housing to employment to wealth accumulation—and the policies that made it all happen. Tune in to learn why the “bootstraps theory” doesn’t hold up and gain some useful tools for your classroom practice.

Topic

Class

November 5, 2019

webinar

Combating Online Youth Radicalization

Learning for Justice and cohosts from SPLC’s Intelligence Project and American University’s Polarization and Extremism Research Innovation Lab (PERIL) present a webinar on combating the radicalization of young people online.

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Bullying & Bias

January 26, 2021

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February 26, 2018