This professional development seminar shows how teachers can take action and create the conditions that bring the key components of culturally responsive pedagogy to life.
By substituting diversity and inclusion rhetoric for transformative efforts to promote equity and justice, colleges have avoided recognizable institutional change, contends Dafina-Lazarus Stewart.
Many people struggle to choose between social justice or environmental justice. They think of them as two separate entities: both righteous, but on two different wavelengths. However, the environmental justice movement has a lot more in common with social justice than initially meets the eye. Both fights are against the same oppressive force, racist systems,...
“Over the past month or so, we've heard the term "ally" probably more than ever, especially as it pertains to social justice. But did you know allyship is not the only way to show solidarity? Britt Hawthorne, anti-racism educator, breaks it down here https://t.co/XBAYziwGSD”
Some educators wonder if multicultural and social justice education are relevant if most of your students are white. The answer is yes.
Some educators wonder if multicultural and social justice education are relevant if most of your students are white. The answer is yes.
When designers began considering how to include an even broader range of people in their designs, they called it universal design. Designers propose one solution for everyone. The problem is that…
Learn from four inspiring organizations that teach kids about justice and activism through the arts, storytelling, and family involvement.
When teaching social justice through current events, consider who your students are, explore opinions and perspective, clarify social justice themes, use interactive technology, and encourage activism.
Want your students to actively engage in addressing inequality? Explore this annotated bibliography of resources for teaching students about social justice.
Art activism comes in all shapes and sizes. Today we meet fellow community member May Porter who found a way to combine her desire to serve with her interest and love of the arts. Hi, my nam…
Education is a powerful driver for development and one of the strongest instruments for reducing poverty and boosting shared prosperity.
Teaching kindness is a staple of elementary practice, but that isn’t the same as teaching justice.
Free lessons from EcoRise and Groundwork USA to create a foundation for students' understanding of environmental justice history and concepts.
About We Want to Do More Than Survive Winner of the 2020 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award Drawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision of educational justice inspired by the rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists. Drawing on her life’s work of teaching and researching in urban schools, Bettina Love persuasively argues that educators must teach students about racial violence, oppression, and how to make sustainable change in their communities through radical civic initiatives and movements. She argues that the US educational system is maintained by and profits from the suffering of children of color. Instead of trying to repair a flawed system, educational reformers offer survival tactics in the forms of test-taking skills, acronyms, grit labs, and character education, which Love calls the educational survival complex. To dismantle the educational survival complex and to achieve educational freedom—not merely reform—teachers, parents, and community leaders must approach education with the imagination, determination, boldness, and urgency of an abolitionist. Following in the tradition of activists like Ella Baker, Bayard Rustin, and Fannie Lou Hamer, We Want to Do More Than Survive introduces an alternative to traditional modes of educational reform and expands our ideas of civic engagement and intersectional justice.
What does it look like in practice, how do some approaches miss the mark, and how can any teacher get started?
Teaching your students about poverty and hunger can be a powerful experience for them. VideoAmy shares a series of videos that explore the issues encountered by four college students who lived on one dollar per day in Guatemala.
We are totally inspired by these free, downloadable posters featuring women in who have made a big impact in STEM fields.
Teaching Activity. By Bill Bigelow and Norm Diamond. 7 pages. This lesson teaches some of the nuts and bolts of labor unions and then moves beyond to ask students to consider what rights they have at work, and to recognize that “rights” depend in large part on what people have fought for and won.
Seamlessly bring agency and activism into your history or civics classroom - by Let's Cultivate Greatness.
Sometimes, to do right by their students, good teachers have to break the rules.
With issues like these, we need to re-think the role of education - #educationfirst #globalcitizen
I grew up a small town in the Midwest. The quaint and charming town with Victorian houses and a long history provided a safe place to grow up in where kids could just be kids. But it lacked diversity. In my elementary school, my siblings and I represented the only Asians. By high school, the
Some educators wonder if multicultural and social justice education are relevant if most of your students are white. The answer is yes.
