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Reading as Resistance
Students analyze a collection of texts, identifying moments of injustice, resistance, hope and joy and then create self-portraits, celebrating one personal strength as a form of resistance.
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Students apply math skills, research into historical wealth gaps, and an analysis of reparations models to an investigation into whether reparations are due to the descendants of enslaved people.
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Upper Elementary students utilize “Born on The Water” and other texts to examine how the legacies of slavery include present issues of environmental racism.
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Literacy and Liberation
Students examine the relationship between literacy and liberation by learning about multiple modes of literacy and analyzing examples of how literacy has been used to empower and advocate across time.
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Educators from the 2021 Network Cohort share a screening tool they developed to support other educators teaching about marginalized identities and group resistance to oppression.
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Students apply research, photography, writing, and interview skills to explore the Black community's sense of belonging and memory in Athens, GA.
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Students explore how cultural identity is informed by history through engagement with “The 1619 Project," and ultimately create Altered Books to reflect what stories they think should be amplified.
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A Children's History
Students conduct research to create children’s picture books about underreported, or historically “erased,” topics in the teaching of U.S. history.
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Students examine the commodification of the labor of enslaved Black Americans, explore their contributions to the formation of American democracy, and examine arguments for and against reparations.
