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Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching is being used in classrooms across the country. Below are links that spotlight the way various teachers are using this award-winning and groundbreaking resource guide.

University of Values: A Cycle of Empowerment and Leadership
At Janet Morrison's summer camp high school students teach elementary school children about social justice and the importance of being community leaders. But this is not a seasonal feat. Every Thursday night throughout the school year Morrison teaches teens to design lessons for the summer camp and empowers them to take on leadership roles.

Little Rock Nine: An Interactive Middle Course
Engage and inspire your middle school students through critical analysis, role-plays, simulations, drama and oral histories. Take a look into Deena Barlev's course on the American Civil Rights Movement, which has gotten so popular at White Oak Middle school that over a hundred students enrolled for this elective course.

Interactive Civil Rights Assembly
Want to avoid the typical "Not another one", "Here we go again" reaction to an assembly? Check out the inspiring interactive assembly, based on Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching, by 8th Grade teacher, activist and co-editor of the resource guide, Jenice View. The spotlight includes to a power point presentation on an interactive quiz and another on civil rights.

Teaching Civil Rights In Predominantly Immigrant Classrooms
Most of Jill Bryson's students are recent immigrants from El Salvador and many are not aware of African-American history in the U.S. See how Jill Bryson introduces the freedom struggle of African-Americans to immigrant students.

 

 


 

 

 
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