Dive in to discover how students and educators are fighting for our rights, and how they’ve always done so.

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** Democracy in Action: A New Issue of Teaching Tolerance
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During a season of protests and pandemic, our Fall 2020 magazine is here. Dive in to discover how students and educators are fighting for our rights, and how they’ve always done so. Read the full issue here ([link removed]) !
Why I Teach: I Teach for Black Girls Like Me // Bria Wright ([link removed])

Story Corner: Min Jee’s Lunch // Elizabeth Kleinrock ([link removed])

Down the Hall: Understanding the Why // Maribel Valdez Gonzalez ([link removed])
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An Anti-racist Conversation With Tiffany Jewell
For the new issue, TT Managing Editor Monita Bell talked to Tiffany Jewell about her book for young readers, This Book Is Anti-Racist. Jewell says young people have the vision to imagine—and create—a world without racism. Adults just need to get on board. Read more here ([link removed]) .
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** The Weaponization of Whiteness in Schools
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Studies show that when educators perceive challenges to their power, they disproportionately view Black students as the source. In the fall issue, TT Staff Writer Coshandra Dillard writes about why it’s time ([link removed]) to recognize the pattern of white educators weaponizing their whiteness in schools and put a stop to it.
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** What Does It Mean for Schools to Be Sanctuaries?
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Immigrant and refugee students and families are under threat. In “School as Sanctuary,” TT Senior Writer Cory Collins reports on the nationwide movement to ensure that all students and families feel safe and welcomed by their schools. Read to learn ([link removed]) how your school can do the same.
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** A Reflection on Teaching Civil Rights History
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In an excerpt from the book
Understanding and Teaching the Civil Rights Movement, movement veteran Charles E. Cobb Jr. shares his own experience with, and concern about, the way we teach this critical period of U.S. history. Read his dispatch ([link removed]) from the front line of civil rights education.


** Check Out What We’re Reading
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“Today, discrimination and racism take different forms. For millions of Black children and their families, and in many communities of color or where poverty is the norm, conditions are equally bleak, and young people are numbed by instability, hopelessness, and the threat of violence.” — The Atlantic ([link removed])

“Children look to the significant adults in their lives for guidance on how to manage their reactions after the immediate threat is over. Parents, teachers, and other caregivers can help children and youth cope in the aftermath of a wildfire by remaining calm and reassuring children that they will be all right.” — National Association of School Psychologists ([link removed])

“Learning environments should be places of liberation, where every educator can teach and every student can thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their sexual orientation, gender identity, race, sex, religion, language, disability, immigration, or economic status.” — The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights ([link removed])
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