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September 28, 2021
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** Today Is National Voter Registration Day!
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We urge educators to engage all students in understanding the registration process and provide eligible youth with the information they need to vote. It is an especially critical time to discuss voting, as recent legislation aimed at limiting voting rights, an ongoing pandemic and natural disasters make participation in the democratic process more challenging and more crucial. We hope these LFJ resources ([link removed]) will help!
Envisioning School Safety Without Police // Coshandra Dillard ([link removed])

Teaching Honest History: A New LFJ Resources for Teaching the Civil Rights Movement ([link removed])

Reimagining Digital Literacy to Save Ourselves // Cory Collins ([link removed])
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Podcast Episode: Reckoning With Race in the Classroom
People from all corners of public life are telling teachers to stop discussions about race and racism in the classroom. English teacher Matthew Kay urges educators to create brave spaces instead. In this season’s second episode ([link removed]) of Teaching Hard History, Kay provides examples of classroom strategies for engaging with students at the intersections of race, literature and lived experience.
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** Parents in Georgia Push for Student Safety
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For many years, Gwinnett County Public Schools has received criticism and complaints about its discriminatory discipline policies. Several of its disciplinary decisions have been overturned in Georgia courts. Meet the parents ([link removed]) who created a grassroots organization to chip away at punitive school discipline policies and work to remove police from their schools.
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** Earn PD Credits by Listening to LFJ Podcasts!
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Learning for Justice now offers professional development certificates ([link removed]) for listening to our podcasts! Each podcast explores a critical aspect of an LFJ topic or framework and is produced with educators in mind. Listen to any episode ([link removed]) of
Teaching Hard History, The Mind Online or Queer America and fill out a form featuring an episode-specific question to receive a PD certificate.
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** Final Chance: Share Your Opinion of Our Magazine
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At Learning for Justice, we know our readers are the experts on our magazine. That’s why we’re inviting you to take this online survey ([link removed]) —if you haven’t already—as we prepare for the future of
Learning for Justice magazine. It’s your chance to let us know what’s most helpful to you and how our magazine can be more useful. The deadline to take the survey is Thursday, September 30.


** Check Out What We’re Reading
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“In Mississippi, a state with sharp racial disparities in health and education, the fight over whether to open schools, and how to protect kids, has put parents living in low-income, majority-Black communities like Mound Bayou in an especially tough position.” — The Undefeated ([link removed])

“These students feel capable of engaging in nuanced discussions and approaching fraught topics with care — even if today’s politicians don’t seem to think they can handle it.” — Salon ([link removed])

“As I discovered when I was a child, patriotic education is about celebrating whiteness at the expense of students of color, whose stories of resistance to white supremacy are often left out of textbooks and classroom lessons. What this creates, explains Lilliana Saldaña, associate professor and Mexican American studies program coordinator at the University of Texas at San Antonio, are generations of students who have been traumatized by their education.” — Teen Vogue ([link removed])
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