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Resistance
Confronting History, Transforming Monuments
This mini-lesson uses the story of the Robert E. Lee monument to help students consider the power of symbols and explore the summer's protests through the lens of voice, agency, and solidarity.
Telling Our Histories
Students connect themes from the film to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's concept of “single stories," and then consider what it would take to tell more equitable and accurate narratives.
Watching Who Will Write Our History
Students view the film, analyze a primary source from the Oyneg Shabes archive, and consider why it matters who tells the stories of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
bell hooks Taught Us to Transgress
Like many people of my generation who cut their teeth on the critical insights of bell hooks, news of her passing in December unleashed a wave of reflection for me about the ways she’s impacted me as a person and public scholar. Beyond the many moments of resonance I experienced while reading her writings over the years, her impact on me is most powerfully encapsulated in an experience I had in 2008 when I met her.
Intersecting Histories: Wartime North Africa and the Holocaust
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Join UCLA professors Sarah Abrevaya Stein and Aomar Boum, as they discuss the experiences of North African Jews before World War II as well as the history of the Holocaust and North Africa.
Upstanders Drop Down Day: Choosing to Act
Virtual
Through participation in this off-timetable day, young people will be able to consider how they have the power to impact others and shape their communities through their choices and actions. This event is for teachers in the UK.
Back-to-School Toolkit: Teaching Strategies and Resources for the School Year
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Prepare for the coming school year as we explore teaching strategies and flexible resources designed to help you begin getting to know your students.
African American Experiences During the Reconstruction Era
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Virtual
In this conversation writer and historian Dr. Kidada Williams presented her research on African Americans’ fight for liberty and equality during the Reconstruction era.
Understanding the Historical Context for Educational Inequity with Dr. Jeffries
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Virtual
In this webinar, Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries provides historical context for the inequities we see in our schools and classrooms today.
Preparing to Teach in Black History Month: Celebrating Our Sisters
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Virtual
This one-hour webinar presented approaches and ideas that can complement and strengthen your teaching of 2023’s Black History Month throughout the school year.
Confronting Islamophobia
Students explore the roots of Islamophobia, reflect on its human cost and its impact on those who experience it, and start thinking about the importance of standing up against Islamophobia.