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October 22, 2019
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** Teaching Students About Halloween Costume Choices
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Every year, we hear of students and educators whose Halloween costumes reinforce stereotypes, bolster systems of oppression or even make light of hate. In these cases, a simple conversation might have prevented a lot of harm. We hope you’ll take the time to talk with your students about their Halloween costume choices this year—and think carefully about your own. Here’s a place to start ([link removed]) .
Black Minds Matter // Coshandra Dillard ([link removed])

They Didn’t Back Down // Cory Collins ([link removed])

Teaching Hard History From the Beginning // Julia Delacroix ([link removed])
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Only a Lynching Is a Lynching
President Trump recently compared himself to victims of racial terror, and he’s far from the first powerful man to do so. Trivializing an act so violent reduces the humanity of those who suffered at the hands of lynch mobs. This article ([link removed]) offers recommendations that can help you talk with students about the painful history of lynching in the U.S.
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** The Symbolic Violence of Confederate-named Schools
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In more than 100 U.S. schools, black educators and students see Confederate names on their walls, jerseys and diplomas. In the latest issue of our magazine, read about ([link removed]) one educator's student of the consequences for black teachers and students working and learning in schools named for men who fought to deny their ancestors freedom.
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** Media Literacy Week: Resources for Digital Literacy
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It’s Media Literacy Week! Our Digital Literacy Framework ([link removed]) offers lessons and videos designed to help students develop digital and civic skills in tandem. Our podcast The Mind Online ([link removed]) also provides information that students and educators alike can use to become safer, better informed digital citizens.
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** TT Educator Grant: Authors of Their Own Stories
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While 50 percent of students in U.S. schools are children of color, multicultural characters, storylines and settings are included in only a fraction of children’s books. With help from a TT grant, students at a New York school took action ([link removed]) : They encouraged publishers to print more books featuring characters of color and then wrote and printed their own stories.


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“We have not achieved what we need to bring justice and high quality schools to the children and teachers of Chicago. We need to have the tools we need to do the job at our schools. We need pay and benefits that will give us dignity and respect. We are on strike until we can do better.” — Colorlines ([link removed])

“[Elijah Cummings] worked until his last breath because he believed our democracy was the highest and best expression of our collective humanity and that our nation’s diversity was our promise, not our problem.” — The Ringer ([link removed])

“Two teenagers — one black, the other white — growing up a few miles apart have had two very different experiences in the New York City public school system. The gap in the quality of their education has likely put them on unequal paths for the rest of their lives.” — The New York Times ([link removed])
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