ADL Education is launching a FREE new course, "Breaking Down Bias: Championing Equitable and Inclusive Classrooms," a comprehensive, interactive online anti-bias learning journey where educators can share, connect and support one another in creating inclusive classrooms.
There aren’t standardized questions that evaluate the knowledge gained during the pandemic on learning how to survive. Check those lessons out before presenting your content. #HipHopEd
As we begin #TeacherAppreciationWeek, we want to thank every educator who—in the midst of an overwhelming year—continues to advocate for students, for themselves and for justice. Appreciation isn't enough. You deserve systemic support. We will demand it, this week and always.
Valuing diversity and recruitment practices aren't enough. To provide all students with the benefits of a more diverse educator workforce, systemic change and intentional support for teachers of color is necessary.
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"Maps are not ideologically neutral location guides." Students can learn a lot by exploring the history and images surrounding mapping and counter-mapping. Consider these examples of how maps have been tools of exclusion, inclusion, injustice and justice.
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"We believe in the power of mathematics to quantify the past and present and to also serve as a tool for liberation." @YehCathery and @DingleTeach explain what it means to humanize math, connect it to students' lives and see it as a vehicle for justice.
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Chart of the day is on defacto racial segregation among higher ed sectors. Approx. 32% of higher ed students are Black or Latinx. The former are heavily overrepresented at for-profit colleges. The latter are overrepresented at community colleges. Consider why & the implications.
"The only tired I was, was tired of giving in." #OTD in 1955, Rosa Parks famously refused to give up her seat. The lifelong activist's work is still, too often, whitewashed into the image of a tired passenger. Honor her story by teaching it in full.
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The myths told about Thanksgiving and Indigenous people in classrooms whitewash history and do harm to today's Indigenous youth. Our latest short film explores a fuller story—and why it's important to center Indigenous voices in telling it.
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