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Jennifer Rowe

Jennifer Rowe is the Executive Director of Educational Equity for Indian Prairie School District in Aurora, Illinois. She has a strong passion for equity work and believes that through building relationships and providing opportunity, real change can occur. Rowe is the co-founder of the Valley Runway, a program that provides prom dresses and tuxedos to students, has partnered with FermiLab to create a summer STEM camp for Black and Latinx students, and has collaborated with 360 Youth Services to provide school-based mental health services in her district’s middle and high schools.

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The Little Rock Nine and the Children’s Movement

This lesson focuses on questions of justice and the role youth have played in social and political movements. By reading a combination of primary and secondary sources, students will learn how the Little Rock Nine came to play their important role. These teenagers’ participation in school integration stemmed not from the prodding of the parents or activists, but from within themselves.

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Rights & Activism

Subject

Reading & Language Arts

Social Studies

Civics

History

September 11, 2012

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September 9, 2015

Names Do Matter

The start of the school year is an important time to remember that names have meaning—whether they belong to monuments, mountains or to your own students.

Topic

Rights & Activism

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March 21, 2013

Rosa Parks: Abused and Misused

When Idaho Rep. Brent Crane characterized Rosa Parks as a champion of states’ rights in a recent debate, it was a troubling sign of what happens when a nation doesn’t work hard to remember its history.

Topic

Rights & Activism

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Issue 26, Fall 2004

What's in a Mascot?

A 9th-grade English unit helps students analyze legacy behind Native American mascots.

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Issue 35, Spring 2009

How School Taught Me I Was Poor

Teaching Tolerance illustration of a student walking with head down while kids laught at him from the school bus window on its way to wealthy neighborhoods

Third grade was a bad year. Third grade was the year I learned in school that I was poor.

Topic

Class

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Issue 51, Fall 2015

The Young and the Registered

Teaching Tolerance illustration Young and the Registered

Voting doesn’t just change election results—it can change lives.

Topic

Rights & Activism

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Literature

William Wells Brown

William Wells Brown was born into slavery and later escaped to become one of the foremost supporters of abolition.

Lauryn Mascareñaz

Grade Level

3-5 6-8

Topic

Slavery

Subject

History

January 8, 2019

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December 11, 2018

Teaching About Mass Incarceration: The Ongoing Narrative of Racial Oppression

We need to talk about mass incarceration in schools, and the conversation can’t stop after one discussion.

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David W. Blight

David W. Blight is Class of 1954 Professor of American History and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale University. He is the author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, forthcoming from Simon and Schuster. Learn more about his work here.

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