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2025 ACLS Leading Edge Fellowships

Society for Classical Studies

The program demonstrates the dynamic capacity of the humanities to advance justice and equity in society and illuminates career pathways for recent PhDs beyond the academy. In addition, ACLS provides fellows with professional development funding, access to peer mentorship and professional networks, and a relocation stipend (if needed).

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OPINION: Why attacking educators for antiracist teaching is dangerous

The Hechinger Report

The place to start to enact change starts in the classroom with the development of our future leaders. And I believe the way to teach children to see the humanity in others starts with an inclusive classroom, where students develop empathy and hear about experiences both similar to, and different from, their own.

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How to Recognize, Avoid, and Stop Stereotype Threat in Your Class this School Year

Digital Promise

As teachers, we don’t always have a say in decisions that are made in our buildings, the pacing for curriculum, or the content of a professional development day. The NNSTOY Social Justice Book list is a great resource for building your classroom library. Be human enough to admit them and correct them.

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Why Accessibility Must Be a Part of Diversity, Equity and Inclusivity Initiatives

ED Surge

Organizations that embrace the promotion of DEI tend to establish and follow a core set of guiding principles, particularly in the creation of their educational products, that resemble the following: Respect for human rights; they endeavor to create content that is free of discrimination, implicit or explicit prejudice and bias.

EdTech 101
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Teachers: Increase Student Equity and Inclusion by Reflecting on Your Videos

Edthena

“To what extent can we utilize video of teacher candidates as a tool to discuss, reflect, and develop skills in how they interact with other humans?”. A proposal for teacher candidates includes self-reflection of recorded behaviors.

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Ethics in the Classroom

Digital Promise

” Fleming, a human rights advocate, explains that the circumstances Ada is living under could be defined as an armed conflict or a war zone. Eventually, Levinson envisions the discussion of ethical dilemmas as common professional development in schools. Others provide more abstract interpretations. Willie “J.R.”

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Teaching for Black Lives Study Groups

Zinn Education Project

The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) Human Rights Committee of 20 members formed a study group that is embedded into their regular monthly meetings. The Hayward study group decided to “adopt the Historically Responsive Literacy Framework (HRLF) as something we want to develop lessons around to share from the Teaching for Black Lives perspective.”