Teaching the Past to Improve the Future
Despite a range of opposition, educators are committed to teaching honest history in their classrooms—and students are eager to learn. In our latest issue of Learning for Justice magazine, Senior Writer Coshandra Dillard shares how educators can shore up their commitment to honest education by understanding their local history and making use of readily available resources, both online and in their communities. Read the full article here.
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Celebrate Pride 2022 with Ongoing Resistance, Activism and Solidarity
We are celebrating Pride 2022 in the shadow of hundreds of anti-LGBTQ bills, anti-CRT legislation (prohibiting teaching about racism) and assaults on reproductive rights aimed at silencing and disenfranchising people—coordinated efforts in a backlash against gains in social justice and equity. As we celebrate a legacy of courage, resilience and strength for the month of June and beyond, let us commit to building coalitions of justice, to being allies to one another. We know from experience that freedom and justice require ongoing resistance, activism and solidarity—and ongoing learning. These resources from the latest LFJ Moment highlight the significance of LGBTQ history in the United States.
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Teach Truth Days of Action
Amid the ongoing attacks against honest and accurate education, our friends at Zinn Education Project, Black Lives Matter at School and the African American Policy Forum are again encouraging educators, students, families and community members to rally and pledge to support teaching the truth. School communities across the country are planning events as part of the Teach Truth Days of Action on June 11-12. Sign up to participate and learn more here.
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Applications Are Now Live! LFJ Teaching Hard History Fall 2022 Cohorts
As participants in one of the Teaching Hard History Professional Learning Cohorts, educators will engage with the Learning for Justice Teaching Hard History: American Slavery (THH) framework and learn how to use it to enrich their K-5 or 6-12 lessons on American enslavement, build students’ civic engagement and critical thinking, and deepen their mindsets around inclusion and empathy. THH Cohorts provide educators the chance to deeply engage with THH, collaborate with LFJ staff and 25 other cohort members across the country, and gain insights and feedback on implementation—all at no cost. Submit your application today!
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Call for Submissions:
“Why I Teach”
If you are an educator with day-to-day contact with K-12 students at school, consider writing for us! Submissions for consideration are personal reflections about life as an educator, published in the “Why I Teach” department of Learning for Justice magazine. Each 600-word essay must be an original piece of unpublished work. For more specific details, visit the Learning for Justice website.
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Check Out What We’re Reading
“Everyday gun violence most impacts communities of color. The same is true of mass shootings, defined as those that have at least four victims.” — The Washington Post
“…[N]ot many Americans outside of Stockton are familiar with the shooting today. Even fewer know the shooting was a racially motivated attack against Asians.” — Teen Vogue
“We want to shift the discussion to American teenagers and listen to you—high school students and middle school students, who are regularly drilled on gun safety and threat response in between English, geometry and other classes.” — The New York Times
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