What Should We Tell Our Children About Charleston?
As we grieve, protest and further investigate the horrific murder of nine African American parishioners at the historic Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC, many people are asking: What should we tell...
View ArticleNow More Than Ever: Why We Need to Address Inequity and Justice in Schools
We live in an increasingly pluralistic, multicultural and connected world. In order to prepare students to live, learn and eventually work successfully in society, we need to prepare them. Diversity...
View ArticleWhen Injustice Goes Unchecked and Concealed, What Message Does This Send to...
Thirteen months after Laquan McDonald was shot and killed by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke, the recorded incident was released to the public. The day before its release, Van Dyke was arrested...
View ArticleThe Most Basic of Rights: Transgender Students Are Entitled to Respect and...
It is the most basic need any student has during the school day: using the restroom safely and comfortably when you need to. It is the first sign of independence before young children enter preschool...
View ArticleBias, Bullying and Bad Behavior in Politics: What’s the Takeaway for Youth?
The political discourse has reached a point where we have to ask ourselves: What should we tell our children? Young people watch and emulate what adults say and do. For that reason, many...
View ArticleNew ADL Resources for Safe and Respectful Schools
Fears of extremism, radicalization and mass violence in our schools have unfortunately become all too common for educators and school administrators across the United States. At the same time,...
View ArticleLabeling Behavior, Not People
With 28% of students ages 12 – 18 years old currently reporting having been a target of bullying, concerns about bullying in schools have motivated hundreds of books to be written and a wide variety of...
View ArticleWhy the ‘Roots’ Remake Matters
Beginning on Memorial Day and for four consecutive evenings this week, the History Channel will air its 2016 version of ‘Roots,’ a remake of the 1977 television miniseries based on Alex Haley’s classic...
View ArticleWe Are Not Powerless When Faced with Hate, Bias, Propaganda and Extremism
Los Angeles rally for the Orlando attack victims The unspeakable tragedy that took place at the Pulse Club in Orlando, FL in the early morning of June 12 brings with it a wide range of emotions for...
View ArticleName-Calling on the Campaign Trail and in the Schoolyard
This is not the first presidential election where candidates have engaged in name-calling and put-downs. Throughout history, name-calling has been used on the campaign trail to label, define and...
View ArticleSpeaking Truth, Facing Bias and Promoting Empathy
It has been a rough summer as the topic of guns, violence, police and bias scream across the news headlines and our smart phones. Still reeling from the June 12 massacre of 49 people at a gay nightclub...
View ArticleTeachable Moments Abound in Khizr Khan’s Convention Speech
On the final night at the Democratic National Convention, a Muslim American couple named Khizr and Ghazala Khan came to the stage and delivered a patriotic speech about their son, a U.S. Army Captain...
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