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** Celebrate LGBTQ History Month With These Resources
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LGBTQ history is American history, and all of our students deserve to know that. This October, we hope you’ll join us in celebrating LGBTQ History Month. Here are a few of our favorite resources ([link removed]) for learning and teaching about the contributions of LGBTQ people, including lessons, posters, articles and our podcast,
Queer America, devoted exclusively to recovering this understudied history.
Black Educators, Black Students, Stonewall Jackson School // Dr. Gregg Suzanne Ferguson ([link removed])

Authors of Their Own Stories // Jey Ehrenhalt ([link removed])

Teaching Hard History From the Beginning // Julia Delacroix ([link removed])
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They Didn’t Back Down: Supporting LGBTQ Youth
Progress in social justice education is often met with pushback. Across the country, outside groups put immense pressure on schools to rescind policies supporting LGBTQ students. In this story, progress began with a community of dedicated Florida educators. Meet the educators ([link removed]) —facing lawsuits, media misinformation and threats— who decided it was worth it to stand up for their students.
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** Educators With Guns Don’t Make Schools Safer
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Despite opposition from educators, lawmakers continue to insist that arming teachers is an effective way to prevent gun violence at school. Several studies show most educators don’t want firearms at school. Students and families are anxious, too, and teacher organizations foresee that going this route would cause more harm. Read more ([link removed]) about why arming educators is a bad idea.
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** Is Your Teaching About the Environment Inclusive?
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How are you aligning the way you teach about the environment with the rest of your work as a social justice educator? You are in a unique position to push back against the whitewashing of environmental activism and the further erasure of black and brown people by using an anti-racist lens when to teach about the environment. Read more ([link removed]) considerations for teaching about environmental activism.
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** Bring the New Smithsonian Poster Exhibit to Your School
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The Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibit Service’s
Righting a Wrong poster exhibition traces the story of Japanese national and Japanese American incarceration during World War II and the people who survived it. Educators can now order at no cost a set of printed posters to exhibit at schools. Poster quantities are limited, so place your order now ([link removed]) .


** Check Out What We're Reading
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“Eighteen months before, you might have been changing their diapers. They were just starting to walk and run. And now you want to put them in alternative school?” — The Washington Post ([link removed])

“Valuing and supporting teachers after they are hired is often more important than simply hiring them in the first place. Too many districts instead offer little to no support for Black teachers, overutilize them for disciplinary purposes, and do not respect them for both their content knowledge and instructional skills.” — Education Week ([link removed])

“Would we imagine a similar suggestion would be proposed for any other student who just needed a quiet place for whatever reason? Or is there something about the understanding and the ability to empathize with, and connect to, and see the core humanity and dignity of, a child with disabilities?” — The New York Times ([link removed])
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