August 3, 2021

Plan for the New School Year With These LFJ Resources

As the school year starts, we extend a warm welcome—or a welcome back—to you! Start here with a guide on how to use our resources, a look at our Social Justice Standards and free One World posters for your classroom. We appreciate you and all you do to create inclusive school communities for all students.

“We Won’t Wear the Name” // Coshandra Dillard 

A Flaw in the Foundation // Natalie Odom Pough

It Was Always About Control // Cory Collins
A Guide to Facilitating Critical Conversations
Educators must be prepared to have critical conversations about identity and injustice with students. Our Let’s Talk! guide offers classroom-ready strategies you can use to plan discussions and facilitate these conversations with your students. We hope you find this guide useful and that you’ll share it with colleagues. And don’t forget to check out our Let’s Talk! webinars.

Anti-racism in Schools: Are You in It for the Long Haul?

In the wake of Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, many educators and schools across the nation committed to starting anti-racist work for the first time. Now, in the face of renewed opposition, how are you holding firm to those commitments? In this article, educator Liz Kleinrock offers concrete questions educators should ask to ensure this work is not just a box for your school to check.

Digging Deep Into the LFJ Social Justice Standards

In a four-part series appearing in recent issues of our magazine, we’ve taken a deep dive into unpacking our Social Justice Standards. The series walks through each SJS domain—Identity, Diversity, Justice and Action—one at a time to help you understand and apply each to your practice so that students develop the skills they need to make their schools and communities a safe place for all.

Survey: Teaching About Race and Racism in Schools

The University of California San Diego is currently conducting a survey that “explores the impact on PK-12 educators of recent campaigns to limit teaching and learning about race, racism and related issues.” The survey findings will inform a report to be released this fall. Find more information about the 15-minute survey and take it here.

Check Out What We’re Reading

“Engaging color-evasiveness in schools to avoid our past and current events will not eliminate racial inequities. We will never 'get past' race if we never get to it.” — The Hechinger Report

“My students come to me with race-based trauma and questions about their identity and experiences. The district is asking me to obfuscate history, ignore my commitment to educational justice and deny these students voice or validation.” — Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“For these youngsters, these teenagers who are aging into eligibility in a really critical developmental period of their lives and not being able to get DACA, it's really detrimental to their future trajectories.” — CBS News
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