May 11, 2021

Supporting Students This Mental Health Awareness Month

This Mental Health Awareness Month, we hope you find time and space to take care of yourself and support your students. These resources, including an article introducing the Crisis Text Line, recommend practices that can be used at the district, school or classroom level.

Black Male Educators Create Space for Joy // Coshandra Dillard 

What It Means to Be an Anti-racist Teacher // Val Brown with Lorena Germán

It Was Always About Control // Cory Collins
Guides for Creating Inclusive School Communities
Our special publications include multiple best practices guides for serving specific student populations including LGBTQ students and ELL students and their families. Our Reading for Social Justice guide offers instructions for planning reading groups that include families and school community members. Check out all of our publications here for in-depth anti-bias strategies and best practices for creating inclusive and welcoming school climates. 

Check Out Our Three Podcasts for Educators

Each of our podcasts explores an aspect of a LFJ topic or framework and is produced with educators in mind. Learn about digital literacy with The Mind Online, the history of American slavery and the civil rights movement with Teaching Hard History and LGBTQ history with Queer America. Listen and subscribe via Apple iTunes, Google Music, Stitcher or Spotify.

A Look at the Fight for Ethnic Studies Across the U.S.

Across the country, advocates are working to ensure K-12 students have the opportunity to take ethnic studies courses. In the latest Spring issue of our magazine, journalist Tina Vasquez writes about the decades-long uphill battle advocates have faced. She explains why advocates are still working today to support curricula they say help students better understand both “who they are and how they are in the world.” Read more about the fight for ethnic studies here.

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Check Out What We’re Reading

“Schools’ insistence on uniformity of dress as an expression of discipline places Native students in a position of having to choose between participating in graduation or following their religious or cultural traditions.” — Indian Country Today

“A teacher of 16 years, Smith said teaching living poets can bring new voices to the literary canon and change the dynamics of a classroom.” — KQED

“For so many of them, history isn’t the story of what actually happened; it is just the story they want to believe. It is not a public story we all share, but an intimate one, passed down like an heirloom, that shapes their sense of who they are. Confederate history is family history, history as eulogy, in which loyalty takes precedence over truth. This is especially true at Blandford, where the ancestors aren’t just hovering in the background—they are literally buried underfoot.” — The Atlantic
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