{"id":243,"date":"2023-05-17T21:36:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T21:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.project110movie.com\/africatown\/?page_id=243"},"modified":"2023-06-05T15:11:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T20:11:21","slug":"teaching-hard-histories","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.project110movie.com\/africatown\/about\/teaching-hard-histories\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Hard Histories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-anton-font-family has-custom-font\" style=\"font-family:Anton\">Our Statement on teaching Hard Histories<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-open-sans-font-family has-custom-font\" style=\"font-family:Open Sans\">We unequivocally support the efforts of educators, organizers, parents, students, and others who are committed to teaching critical, inclusive, and true histories of the United States and those who have built it<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-open-sans-font-family has-custom-font\" style=\"font-family:Open Sans\"><strong><em>Teach Africatown<\/em><\/strong> believes that hard histories are essential to teaching students to consider multiple perspectives, think critically, foster empathy, and to understand freedom and justice. We also believe teaching hard histories require pedagogies of care that acknowledge the emotional impact such narratives have on teachers and students alike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-open-sans-font-family has-custom-font\" style=\"font-family:Open Sans\">We remain committed to supporting educators by providing them with the materials and resources to sustain their teaching of hard histories. We understand that different educators face different challenges and barriers to teaching these histories. Thus, we are committed to meeting educators where they are and working together to understand, develop, and implement strategies and solutions.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.learningforjustice.org\/frameworks\/teaching-hard-history\/american-slavery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.project110movie.com\/africatown\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/SPLC.png\" alt=\"Support for teaching hard history from the Southern Povery Law Center's Learning for Justice project \" class=\"wp-image-245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.project110movie.com\/africatown\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/SPLC.png 500w, https:\/\/www.project110movie.com\/africatown\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/SPLC-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.project110movie.com\/africatown\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/SPLC-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.project110movie.com\/africatown\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/SPLC-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-open-sans-font-family has-custom-font\" style=\"font-family:Open Sans\">Learning for Justice: a project by the Southern Poverty Law Center<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Statement on teaching Hard Histories We unequivocally support the efforts of educators, organizers, parents, students, and others who are committed to teaching critical, inclusive, and true histories of the United States and those who have built it Teach Africatown believes that hard histories are essential to teaching students to consider multiple perspectives, think critically, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":261,"parent":18,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"Anton,Open Sans","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","hide_page_title":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-243","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.project110movie.com\/africatown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.project110movie.com\/africatown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.project110movie.com\/africatown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.project110movie.com\/africatown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.project110movie.com\/africatown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.project110movie.com\/africatown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535,"href":"https:\/\/www.project110movie.com\/africatown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/243\/revisions\/535"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.project110movie.com\/africatown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.project110movie.com\/africatown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.project110movie.com\/africatown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}