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Simple Ways to Bring Mental Health Conversations to Your School This Year

Active Minds

For those searching for a way to unite people of all different backgrounds through inspiring storytelling … consider booking an Active Minds Speaker for your next school or community event! The curriculum contains thirteen discussion guides rooted in mental health literacy and social-emotional development.

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Panel: Erasing Black History Threatens to Harm Black Community, Students, and Nation's Future

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Today, many state leaders have increasingly advocated for the banning of African American studies and have proposed curriculum changes that downplay the significance of slavery in the U.S.,” In the face of curriculum and book bans and the devaluing of Black history, it is imperative to amplify and uphold African American history.”

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Dr. Jessica T. DeCuir-Gunby Selected to Lead USC Race and Equity Center

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Naslund Chair in Curriculum and Teaching. DeCuir-Gunby has published four books, including Race and Ethnicity in the Study of Motivation in Education [Routledge, 2016] and Understanding Critical Race Research Methods and Methodologies [Routledge, 2019]. Dr. Jessica T. I look forward to helping continue this legacy.”

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Report Finds Diverse Characters in Schoolbooks Often One-Dimensional

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As debates over how students should learn about race heat up and K-12 schools ban more and more books, it’s an increasingly urgent concern. If I’m a Black child, and I read about myself in a book, I need to read that I have agency over my life just like when I read about a white character.” Any censorship of any kind is bad,” she said.

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Going Back to School Means Increasing Black/Minoritized Family Engagement Too

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Topics and people that they want their children to learn about are not taught in the curriculum (e.g., content, books events, topics, issues). I have written extensively about cultureblind curriculum and its myriad of problems. Family engagement efforts often take on an assimilation function.

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HBCUs Continue to Meet Their Mission During Tough Times

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She and other scholars underlined the critical importance of HBCUs and an inclusive, expansive history curriculum being taught to students K-12 and beyond. Dunbar shared her stories with the gathered crowd on the final day of the College Board’s "A Dream Deferred: a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) Conference."

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Leaders Call for Active Resistance Against Anti-DEI Measures

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

F2L — a group of educators, artists, advocates, and policy makers opposing the book bans and attacks on educational curriculum — wants everyone to resist anti-DEI movements on that day and be loud about what they do, whether that’s reading banned-book author Toni Morrison or engage in a more active demonstration.

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