Learning for Justice is proud to be a part of the 76th Annual Mississippi State Conference Virtual Convention and Policy Institute. LFJ Director Jalaya Liles Dunn is participating in Saturday’s education workshop “The Truth Will Make You Free,” which will explore critical race theory, its origin and its role in education, and provide strategies for truth-telling about our nation’s history.
Below are resources we believe are relevant to this topic. We encourage you to explore and share them with educators in your community.
- What Critical Race Theory Is and What it Means for Teachers
- Students Say Teach the Truth
- Teaching Hard History: American Slavery
- The Courage to Teach Hard History
- Teaching Hard History magazine feature story
- “We Are Our Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams”
- Podcast: Teaching Hard History
- Classroom Videos: Teaching Hard History
- Webinars: Teaching Hard History
- Teaching Hard History From the Beginning
- Lies My Bookshelf Told Me: Slavery in Children’s Literature
- Teaching Honest History: A New LFJ Resource for Teaching the Civil Rights Movement
- History Moves With Us
- Teaching America’s Interwoven Histories
- How Culturally Responsive Lessons Teach Critical Thinking
- Ned Blackhawk Q&A: Understanding Indigenous Enslavement
Join Our Community Conversations
Learning for Justice is currently planning a campaign centered around our Teaching Hard History project. The campaign aims to support educators in implementing the Teaching Hard History: American Slavery framework in Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia and Florida. The campaign will also support parents, caregivers, teachers, students and community members in advocating for truth-telling and the use of Teaching Hard History resources in schools. To kick off the campaign, we’re planning a series of community conversations on this topic. We hope you’ll participate in these conversations and share your expertise, experience and knowledge with us. If you’d like to participate, please send us an email at [email protected].
A Funding Partnership Opportunity for Mississippi Schools
Applications for the Learning for Justice Educator Fund will open on January 5, 2022. The Educator Fund supports educators who embrace and embed social justice, anti-bias and anti-racist principles throughout their classrooms and schools. We seek to collaboratively build educators’ capacity to do this. We believe these approaches in education encourage children and young people to challenge injustice and learn how to be agents of change in their own lives and communities.
Learning for Justice’s Educator Fund offers the opportunity to work with LFJ to address systemic inequities within education. Throughout our partnership, we offer ongoing guidance and critical resources. With help from your expertise about your own school community, we intend to collaboratively generate innovative solutions that promote affirming school climates, encourage student action and raise everyone’s consciousness.