What Is a Hate Crime and How Do Hate Crimes Impact People?
This explainer helps students understand what hate crimes are and the impact they can have on individuals and communities.
Where Do You Start with Text Selection?
Dr. Kimberly Parker shares steps educators can take to ensure that their curriculum choices make room for student voice and reflect a broad range of stories and experiences.
Humanizing Text Selection
Dr. Kimberly Parker discusses the importance of teachers making intentional choices about text selection that support students’ intellectual and social-emotional development.
There Was a Purpose in My Being There
Learn about the voter registration drives in the South during the civil rights movement through a volunteer’s first hand account.
Five Facts about Honduras and Immigration
Explore key findings about Honduran immigration, including the recent wave of minors seeking asylum.
February One
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This video tells about the men who started the lunch counter sit-ins in Greensboro, NC.
Foreigners in the Their Own Land (1565-1880)
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Part one of Latino Americans, this film shows how conquest, shifting borders and dispossession shaped Hispano culture and identity in former Mexican territories of the Southwestern United States.
Big Paper Examples
This handout contains images for a Big Paper activity where students explore examples of people promoting belonging and safety.
Freedom on My Mind
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This video tells the story of the Mississippi Voter Registration Project in the 1960s.
Analyzing Monuments to Japanese American Incarceration
This handout contains prompts that students can use to analyze a monument to Japanese American incarceration.
Photos of the Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism During World War II
This handout contains photos of the Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism During World War II in Washington, DC.