Your weekly newsletter, with resources on trauma and loss due to coronavirus and more.  

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January 26, 2021
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** Addressing Trauma and Loss Due to Coronavirus
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As we mourn the deaths of educators due to coronavirus here in Montgomery, Alabama, we are also lifting up school communities throughout the country who are dealing with losses of their own. These resources ([link removed]) can help you recognize and address this trauma with your students and yourself.
The Weaponization of Whiteness in Schools // Coshandra Dillard ([link removed])

And the Winners Are… // Anya Malley ([link removed])

School as Sanctuary // Cory Collins ([link removed])
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Teach Amanda Gorman’s 2021 Inauguration Poem
At last week’s presidential inauguration, National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman read her poem “The Hill We Climb.” Our new “Teach This ([link removed]) ” article helps you introduce and contextualize the poem for students. Try the discussion questions and partner texts to talk with students about creative work as a commentary on democracy.
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** Advocate for Black Students’ Mental Health
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Amid the ongoing pandemic and continuous police violence against Black lives and after the Capitol attacks, educators and school leaders must ask themselves how they’re supporting every child in their care. Read TT Senior Writer Coshandra Dillard’s “Black Minds Matter ([link removed]) ” to learn more about interrupting school practices that disregard the mental health of Black youth.
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** New Podcast Episode: Teaching Freedom Summer
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Teaching civil rights history to K-5 learners can create both opportunities and challenges. To help young students better understand the movement, you can incorporate lessons on events like the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project. Listen to our new
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** An Anti-racist Conversation With Tiffany Jewell
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For our Fall 2020 issue, Teaching Tolerance Managing Editor Monita K. Bell talked with Tiffany Jewell. The author of
This Book Is Anti-Racist, Jewell says it’s young people who have the vision to imagine—and create—a world without racism. Adults just need to get on board. Read Jewell’s advice ([link removed]) , including her words for those worried that doing anti-racist work in schools is too difficult.


** Check Out What We’re Reading
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“We’ve got to teach a more inclusive education that shows the contribution of all people, and the role of citizens in maintaining democracy. We have to work for it.” — The Hechinger Report ([link removed])

“Boarding schools across the country made it difficult for tribes to preserve their cultures, practices and languages.” — Indian Country Today ([link removed])

“When the pandemic forced schools and doctors' offices closed last spring, it also cut children off from the trained teachers and therapists who understand their needs.” — NPR ([link removed])
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