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Protests at the 2020 Olympics
This week, the International Olympic Committee announced that political protests at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games will be regulated. News coverage of the policy creates an opportunity to talk with students about voice, power and what it means to stand against injustice. These resources can help.
- Teach This: Regulating Protest at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
- Discussing #TakeAKnee in Class
- Athletes, Protest and Patriotism
Teach This: Regulating Protest at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
What We’re Reading This Week: January 10, 2020
Disrupting Islamophobia Amid U.S.-Iran Tension
As news breaks about increased tensions between the U.S. and Iran, your students may encounter Islamophobic comments or sentiments. These resources can help ensure that you’re ready to interrupt and address Islamophobia if it appears in your classroom or school—and that you’re ready to help students do the same.
- Expelling Islamophobia
- Confronting Students’ Islamophobia
- Countering Islamophobia
Looking Back and Pressing Forward
Winter Break
This winter break, we hope you’ll take the time you need to relax and reflect on the year so far. We’re grateful for everything you do for students, and we hope these articles offer useful ideas for recharging and for recommitting yourself to the work that lies ahead in the new year.
- An Open Letter to Teachers Everywhere
- Self-care for Your Break
- A Justice Educator’s New Year
How Did Sugar Feed Slavery?
Appropriate Ways to Teach Kids About Slavery
This week, a photograph of a math assignment asking fifth graders to set prices for enslaved people went viral. Assignments like this are clearly harmful. But students can learn about slavery in ways that recover the lives and histories of enslaved people or dehumanize them; celebrate their resistance or erase their agency; recognize how slavery shaped our nation or ignore it completely. Educators can teach this hard history—and teach it well—in any discipline, to students of almost any age. Here are a few examples of how.
- How Did Sugar Feed Slavery?
- Sample Lessons
- Teaching Hard History: Grades K-5