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Professional Development
These LFJ resources help teachers improve their practice and help K–12 leaders shape their schools into strong, equitable communities.
October 16, 2018
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What We're Watching
Dim the lights and get ready to learn with these TT-approved films!
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Reframing Classroom Management: A Toolkit for Educators
Effective classroom management is critical to supporting student engagement and achievement. Reframing Classroom Management offers educators a variety of tools to help demystify common behaviors and reinforce what works.
December 6, 2016
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Bullying & Bias
Promote empathy and perspective-taking, and help students challenge prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination. Start by reviewing bullying basics and testing yourself for hidden bias, then follow up with activities that
June 28, 2017
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Affirm LGBTQ+ Young People by Creating Inclusive Learning Spaces
It is imperative to provide inclusive education because, as GLSEN’s Executive Director, Melanie Willingham-Jaggers, emphasizes, “Accurate and inclusive lessons not only affirm LGBTQ+ students, but also give non-LGBTQ+ students clear information about the diverse world around them and help prepare all young people to navigate and contribute to a multicultural society.”
- Inclusive Education Benefits All Children
- Visibility is Power
- Gender-Affirming Care: What It Is and Why It's Necessary
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Book Reviews for Children and Teens
Stories are a deeply meaningful way that we learn about the world, and they can build empathy and understanding of ourselves and others. In each issue of Learning for Justice magazine, we review some of our favorite recent books. Our selections reflect diverse perspectives, affirm identities, celebrate diversity and highlight justice. This week, as a special treat, we’re sharing some of our best-loved books for growing readers and teens from the last few magazine issues.
- Book Reviews for Children and Teens
- Creating a Society Rooted in Justice: Q&A with Britt Hawthorne
- Celebrate African and Indigenous Cultures: A Resource for Parents and Caregivers
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The L.A. Riots Echo Loudly In My Classroom
My students are too young to remember the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Just four years before their birth, they refer to them as something from “back in the day.”But the themes of police brutality, poverty and racism are all too familiar. And most drew an immediate connection between the Rodney King verdict that sparked those riots and the 2009 fatal shooting of Oscar Grant. Grant was shot in the back by Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer Johannes Mehserle less than one mile from our school in Oakland.
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Toolkit for The Classroom Closet
This professional development activity gives ideas for developing narrative empathy: using the power of story to step into another person’s shoes in the name of justice.
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Anti-Bullying Resources
Any teacher looking to combat bullying should start with the Teaching Tolerance documentary Bullied: A Student, a School and a Case That Made History. This free movie includes a viewers guide with great anti-bullying
