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Supporting Student-led Action and Protests
As some states and districts drop mask mandates amid the COVID-19 pandemic, many students continue to petition and stage walkouts to demand safer health protocols. Some students are protesting against instances of racism and sexual assault as well. These LFJ resources provide guidance for supporting your students who are demanding that their concerns are taken seriously.
- Existence Is Resistance: Supporting Student-led Social Change
- Digging Deep Into the Social Justice Standards: Action
- Permission to Walk Out: They Didn’t Ask, I Didn’t Give It
The Harlem Renaissance: Restructuring, Rebirth and Reckoning
Prioritize Black Mental Health and Self-care
Current events may be hard to grapple with as multiple historically Black colleges and universities faced bomb threats, Minneapolis police fatally shot Amir Locke, and many states and districts continue to ban teaching inclusive books and talking about race. Amidst these aggressions, we want to remind Black educators to practice self-care—and all educators to elevate the importance of Black students’ experiences and their mental health. These resources can help.
- Black Minds Matter
- Self-care Can Be Social Justice
- Student Mental Health Matters
Changing the Game: Sports in the Jim Crow Era
Apply for the New LFJ Educator Fund!
Learning for Justice’s new Educator Fund supports educators who embrace and embed social justice, anti-bias and anti-racist principles throughout their classrooms, schools and districts. We seek to fund equity-focused projects that address restorative discipline, youth civic engagement or dismantling oppressive narratives. These resources include guidelines for applying, FAQs and an exemplary project from a previous grant awardee. Submit your application today!
- Announcing the LFJ Educator Fund
- All About the LFJ Educator Fund Application Process
- Love Your Magic Conference
All About the LFJ Educator Fund Application Process
The New Deal, Jim Crow and the Black Cabinet
Honor Martin Luther King Jr. and the Full Movement
As Martin Luther King Jr. Day approaches, educators across the nation will teach about King’s life and works. Countless others will echo his famous quotes. Few will offer a full picture of who King truly was—or of the collectivist movement that surrounded him. These resources can help you offer a fuller account of King, his peers and the ongoing legacy of their shared dreams and actions.
- Teaching the Movement’s Most Iconic Figure
- History Moves With Us
- The Best of Our Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Resources