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November 30, 2021
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** Last Chance to Apply for Our Professional Learning Cohorts!
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Friday, December 3, is the last day to apply for our upcoming Teaching Hard History Professional Learning Cohorts ([link removed]) . The cohorts will engage with our Teaching Hard History: American Slavery framework and learn how to use it to enrich lessons on American enslavement, build students’ civic engagement and critical thinking, and deepen their mindsets around inclusion and empathy. Apply here now ([link removed]) !
Humanity, Healing and Doing the Work // Dena Simmons with Crystal L. Keels and Anya Malley ([link removed])

Envisioning School Safety Without Police // Coshandra Dillard ([link removed])

Reimagining Digital Literacy Education to Save Ourselves // Cory Collins ([link removed])
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Catch Up on the New Season of Teaching Hard History
We’re nearly halfway through Season 4 of our Teaching Hard History podcast! This season examines the century between the Civil War and the modern civil rights movement to understand how systemic racism and slavery persisted and evolved after emancipation—and how Black Americans still developed strong institutions during this time. Catch up on the first seven episodes now ([link removed]) —and look out for a new episode this week!
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** Respecting All Students During the Holidays
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To make all students feel included, some teachers and schools have turned to excluding all cultural and holiday celebrations. “But being a culturally sustaining teacher requires acknowledging and highlighting your students’ cultural identities, not ignoring them,” writes educator and mother Dr. Rachael Mahmood. In this article ([link removed]) , Mahmood recommends strategies for supporting all students’ religions and cultures.
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** Earn PD Credits by Listening to LFJ Podcasts!
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Learning for Justice now offers professional development certificates 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 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. Find more information here ([link removed]) .
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** Teaching About the Arrest of Rosa Parks
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The anniversary of Rosa Parks’ arrest is December 1. Teach a more complex version of this historic milestone and the civil rights movement. Use these resources ([link removed]) to help students delve deeper into the history of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott. For additional context, students can discuss
Browder v. Gayle, an often unheard-of civil rights case that overturned segregated public transportation in the South.


** Check Out What We’re Reading
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“With the attention on ‘parents’ rights’ in the widely covered Virginia election, one group was conspicuously absent: Black families who support teaching about race and racism. Some Black parents say their voices and viewpoints were sidelined. And amid all the uproar and outcry, the effect on Virginia’s Black children was largely overlooked.” — HuffPost ([link removed])

“The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture launched a sophisticated digital platform Thursday that brings a trove of interactive stories, images and video about the Black experience out of the museum and onto the Internet.” — The Washington Post ([link removed])

“A high school principal in North Texas who was placed on leave after being publicly accused of promoting critical race theory has agreed to leave his role. James Whitfield ... and the Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District reached an agreement to part ways after months of controversy. The decision was announced after the district’s trustees voted unanimously during a special meeting Monday to approve the ‘agreed settlement and separation agreement’ with Whitfield.” — CNN ([link removed])
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