Celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day All Year Long
Indigenous Peoples’ Day is October 11, 2021. We encourage you to uplift contemporary Indigenous cultures and histories by incorporating resources written by and about Indigenous peoples into your curriculum. In these LFJ resources, learn various ways to do this in your classroom—all year long.
Indigenous Peoples' History
Decolonizing the Classroom: Teaching With Indigenous Comics
With and About: Inviting Contemporary American Indian Peoples Into the Classroom
Recognize Mental Illness Awareness Week
Students and educators have faced countless, unprecedented hardships over the past two school years. We hope that during this Mental Illness Awareness Week, you’ll incorporate mental health literacy into your work with students. These LFJ resources highlight ways to destigmatize mental illness and feature tips for interrupting harmful school practices, which especially affect Black youth. We all need to be good to ourselves and to each other.
Demystifying the Mind
Broken and Healing: Normalizing Mental Health Issues in Our Classrooms
Black Minds Matter
Help Students Register on National Voter Registration Day!
On this National Voter Registration Day, September 28, we urge educators to engage all students in understanding the registration process and provide eligible youth with the information they need to vote. It is an especially critical time to discuss voting, as recent legislation aimed at limiting voting rights, an ongoing pandemic and natural disasters make participation in the democratic process more challenging and more crucial. We hope these LFJ resources will help!
Register Future Voters
Get Started!
Future Voters Project: Additional Resources
The First Issue of ‘Learning for Justice’ Magazine Is Here!
At this critical moment in K-12 education, we’re thrilled to introduce the inaugural issue of Learning for Justice magazine. Our Fall 2021 issue highlights key lessons learned from this past year—lessons that the education community can carry forward to help create safe and inclusive learning spaces. Be inspired by messages of hope, solidarity and activism that can aid in the transformational work needed to create the just future that all students deserve.
A Message From Our Director
We Can Create Change Together
Envisioning School Safety Without Police
Support for National Suicide Prevention Week
This Suicide Prevention Week—September 10 is World Suicide Prevention Day—support your students and your school community. These resources can help. Use this toolkit to help reduce mental health stigma, promote wellness and acknowledge the mental health needs of students and staff alike. Inform your students about support available through the Crisis Text Line, and use the E.D.G.E. technique to help students support one another throughout the year.