In this issue, find out about our upcoming webinar on implicit bias - and register!

Also see our new lessons for Women's History Month (or any time!) - including an arts project on the suffragists, an exploration of feminism, and more. Plus, good stuff to read. Enjoy!

Join staff developers Marieke van Woerkom and Dionne Grayman in this interactive AFT/Share My Lesson webinar!

Participants will learn about and reflect on how implicit bias expresses itself in the classroom. They will learn specific practices (including for remote instruction) to ensure that we set high expectations for every student - and give our students more opportunities to thrive and shine.

Wednesday, March 24, 2021, 2:00PM EDT. Register now.

Looking for engaging activities on amazing women and their movements? Here’s our collection - including the just published lessons below.

Through guiding questions and inquiry, students collectively gain an understanding of a new monument, the artwork, the artist’s intentions, and some of the history influencing the work. The activity encourages students to honor the women who came before us and those who continue to take action toward a more just society.

In this two-part lesson, teachers and students explore the concept of truth and reconciliation commissions as a way for nations and communities to begin dialogues and chart a path toward healing.

Through videos, a word cloud, and discussion, students hear multiple voices about what feminism is, who is a feminist, and the evolution of feminism and share their own thoughts and feelings about it.

"Many conveniently imagine that our communities are unscathed in a white supremacist world. They are wedded to the “model minority” fantasy, which characterizes all Asians as economically successful and well-off." By Connie Wun at Elle

"When Meisha Ross Porter showed up to an honors English class as a Black senior at Queens Vocational and Technical High School, the teachers thought she was in the wrong place. 'Folks thought it was a mistake and moved me out,” she said. “I went to my principal ... and he got me right back in there and was very clear that I belonged.' It was one of Porter’s earliest memories of institutional racism at city schools. Next week, she will become the first Black woman to lead the largest school system in America." Madina Toure at Politico

Check out the Equal Justice Initiative’s daily newsletter on racial injustice, which each day highlights events on this day in history as a way to engage us and our students in important and long-neglected conversations about race in America 

“Feminism is about justice for everyone. But you have to name the problem. And the problem is it’s women who’ve been excluded.”

 ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie