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Future Voters Project: Build Your Registration Team
The first step to a successful voter registration drive is assembling the right team. Here’s how you can find the folks you need and get them excited!
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Future Voters Project: Including All Students
These recommendations will help ensure that no student feels excluded or singled out during your school’s voter registration drive.
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Teaching About King’s Radical Approach to Social Justice
While Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s work is often sugarcoated, it’s important to teach that King championed economic justice and taught Black self-love while also pushing back against neutrality, imperialism and systemic racism.
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The Color of Law: Developing the White Middle Class
This lesson is the third and final lesson of the series The Color of Law: The Role of Government in Shaping Racial Inequity. In this lesson, students examine policies that supported and cultivated the creation of the white middle class and the practices that excluded black and nonwhite people from economic development.
October 10, 2019
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The Color of Law: Winners and Losers in the Job Market
This lesson is the second lesson of the series The Color of Law: The Role of Government in Shaping Racial Inequity. In this lesson, students examine how government policies helped white people access economic benefits while preventing African Americans from accessing these same benefits.
October 10, 2019
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Support LGBTQ Students and Educators as Our Rights Are Decided
As the Supreme Court hears cases to decide whether federal law protects LGBTQ people from employment discrimination, one queer educator explains how his colleagues can be accomplices in the fight for LGBTQ civil rights.
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The Color of Law: Creating Racially Segregated Communities
This lesson is the first lesson of the series The Color of Law: The Role of Government in Shaping Racial Inequity. In this lesson, students examine the local, state and federal policies that supported racially discriminatory practices and cultivated racially segregated housing.
October 9, 2019
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Sacred Spaces and the Work of Social Justice Educators
The Civil Rights Memorial sits near TT's office. As we celebrate the birthday of its designer, Maya Lin, a TT staffer reflects on this space and its connection to the work educators do every day.
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Recovering and Teaching Local History
Local history has a profound effect on our communities. It’s up to educators to learn and teach students about the hard history in their own backyards.
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How Inclusive Is Your Teaching About the Environment?
How are you aligning the way you teach about the environment with the rest of your work as a social justice educator?