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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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Future Voters Project: Best Practices for High School Voter Registration Drives
Getting ready to lead a voter registration drive at your school? Here are five tips for getting started.
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Register Future Voters
We’re glad you’ve joined the effort to register all eligible students by the time they graduate high school! We hope these resources will help!
January 14, 2020
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Teach This: Politics and History Textbooks
A recent New York Times article compares history textbooks to show the radical differences between California and Texas editions. It’s a great opportunity to encourage your students to think about the role politics plays in curriculum.
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Student Mental Health Matters
Cohosted by Dr. Charles Barrett, Chair for the National Association of School Psychologists Multicultural Affairs Committee, this webinar focuses on challenges students face regarding mental health, including how those challenges can vary.
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The Radical Truth of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., born January 15, 1929, became the most well known leader of the modern civil rights movement. But the truth of King’s legacy is often whitewashed and sanitized. On his birthday, MLK Day and year round, use these resources to provide students with a more complete, radical context of King's fight for justice—and discuss how his work still creates ripples today.
- Teaching About King’s Radical Approach to Social Justice
- From MLK to #BlackLivesMatter: A Throughline for Young Students
- What Does the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Mean to You?
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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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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
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Teach This: Regulating Protest at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
Analyze news of the recent announcement banning athlete protest at the Olympics to discuss protest and the power of individual voice with students.
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What We’re Reading This Week: January 10, 2020
A weekly sampling of articles, blogs and reports relevant to TT educators.
