The LFJ team will be presenting and exhibiting at the upcoming NCSS conference in Nashville on December 1-3.
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November 21, 2023
** Come and See Us at NCSS!
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The Learning for Justice team will be presenting and exhibiting at the upcoming NCSS (National Council for the Social Studies) conference ([link removed]) in Nashville on December 1-3. Join us for a session on Best Practices for Serving LGBTQ+ Students on Friday, December 1 (12:45-1:45 p.m. in Room 104C) and a session on Using Critical Practices to Deepen Students’ Connection to Social Studies on Sunday, December 3 (8:30-10:30 a.m. in Room 104E). We’ll also be in the exhibit hall (Booth 217) all day both on Friday, December 1, and Saturday, December 2.
** Resources for Discussing Thanksgiving
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LFJ wishes you and your loved ones a week of peace and community. The Thanksgiving holiday is an opportunity to discuss the history of the United States in honest and age-appropriate ways. We offer the following resources to support understanding the complex history of this holiday. Share some of these activities and conversations this week to honor and uplift Native peoples, their histories and their contributions while acknowledging a more honest narrative of our nation’s history.
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** Teaching Thanksgiving in a Socially Responsible Way
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Native Americans and many others have resisted the colonialist narrative of Thanksgiving for as long as it has existed. This LFJ article ([link removed]) features a number of online resources that can help in sharing an accurate account of Thanksgiving that deconstructs the myths about the holiday in the U.S.
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** Celebrate African and Indigenous Cultures
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Conversations about African and Indigenous cultures are essential for learning about the history of our country and making connections with a broader world. This LFJ article ([link removed]) offers talking points, activities and book recommendations to support these conversations.
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** Celebrate Native American Heritage
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In observation of Native American Heritage Month, LFJ created this resource page ([link removed]) to honor and teach the truth about Native peoples—and to help ensure that learning about this heritage takes place all year long.
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** LFJ’s New Curriculum: Teaching the Civil Rights Movement
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If young people are to make the vision of a just and peaceful world a reality, we must give them the tools to build a strong multiracial democracy—and those tools include an accurate, comprehensive and inclusive history of the United States. We are thrilled to introduce Teaching the Civil Rights Movement ([link removed]) , our newest curriculum, which begins in 1877 with Reconstruction, highlights the Civil Rights Movement, and continues the narrative of the movement for equality and civil rights to the present. At this critical moment in which states and districts are attempting to censor discussions of race and racism in U.S. history, this curriculum is an essential resource.
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