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Check out @IllumiNativeOrg for more resources on lifting up and advocating for Indigenous peoples, including an "Activist's Guide for Supporting #IndigenousPeoplesDay".

Today we recognize, acknowledge, and honor #IndigenousPeoplesDay. #HonorNativeLand is a campaign to spread the practice of acknowledgment of traditional Native lands. Visit www.usdac.us/nativeland to download the Guide with step-by-step instructions for how to offer acknowledgement and tips for moving beyond acknowledgment and into action. We also invite you to learn more about Teach For America's Native Alliance at www.teachforamerica.org/li/your-tfa-network/native-alliance.

We are stronger as a community. This #ComingOutDay, and sixth year anniversary of the TFA LGBTQ+ Community Initiative, here's to supporting and standing by all of our students and partners. A reminder that Teach For America's LGBTQ+ Brave Education Summit is virtual, free, and open to all LGBTQ+ and allied corps members, alumni, staff, partners, community members, and students. A series of sessions throughout the month will cover a variety of topics including LGBTQ+ Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC), policy, student support, and trans/non-binary/gender non-conforming. We hope to see you there! Register at: https://www.teachforamerica.org//2020-national-brave-educa.

Alums @sohnis and @ashleybarattini giving us #fridaymotivation proving teamwork makes the dream work (especially this year). . . Posted @withregram @sohnis, shirts @artbyreeves.

During Summer 2020, The Reinvention Lab powered by Teach For America assembled a diverse coalition of 12 young people from across the country to take part in the Enduring Ideas Fellowship. What's on the minds of young people as they return to school in this age of Covid-19 and widespread racial reckonings? Read more below.

These faces may be tiny, but they’re working towards having BIG impact. Say hello to the 2020 New York corps, some of our TFA NY staff, and partners Relay Graduate School of Education!

Sharing a wonderful opportunity for our friends across the Hudson at Teach For America New Jersey!

Tomorrow (10/1), Bellwether Education Partners and TFA are hosting a webinar on a new paper that explores how 12 schoolsdistrict and charter, rural and urban, and across many different contextsnavigated distance learning in the spring. The research highlights eight promising practices schools across the country can explore this school year, and features school and system leaders from two of our 150+ school partners, Uncommon Schools and Hamilton Grange Middle School. Register here: https://teachforamerica.zoom.us//register/WN_jyn9MTC6TcaQS

Mask? Commitment? Shake Shack? Teachers doing incredible things? Big shout out to our alumni teachers and corps (including @kelseyoliviafowler, NY ‘20)! . Posted @withregram @kelseyoliviafowler The last two days were both really hard and really, really fun. I love teaching. This school year holds 178 more days until I’m not a first year teacher. 178 more at bats chances to learn, and grow, and teach, and form genuine connections with my incredible students. I’m going to get really, really good at this. I won’t stop until I’m there. I’m excited by that. But for now I’m going to get shake shack for dinner and be asleep by 7:30PM. Happy Tuesday!

The Brave Education Virtual Summit kicks-off next week! The summit is free and open to all LGBTQ+ and allied corps members, alumni, staff, partners, community members, and students. See below for details and to register.

In a recent interview, Tamika Palmer, Breonna Taylor’s mother, shared, She would always say to ‘Apply pressure, pressure makes pipes burst,’ meaning, if you want something, you have to go get it. As our region sits with everyone in anger, heartache, pain, frustration and more at the devastating lack of justice for Breonna Taylor, we also stand committed to working alongside our communities to not just envision change, but go get it. We will continue to say her name. To not just say, but show that Black Lives Matter. To work to disrupt systemic racism in-house and beyond. To stand alongside you in challenging the inequities that our students face. However it looks today, thank you to everyone showing up, and to everyone centering self-care. #BreonnaTaylor #BlackLivesMatter. Art @arielsinhaha

We are launching a new Opinion section to share a wide range of voices from our communities on the issues most important to our students and our work. If you're interested in contributing, please read more here! https://www.teachforamerica.org//elevating-voices-from-our

Current restrictions on in-person connections make engaging students even harder for schools. After interviewing school leaders (including at two of our 150+ school partners, Hamilton Grange Middle School and Uncommon), combing through instructional materials, and listening to dozens of teachers in small focus groups, Bellwether Education Partners captured best practices across eight categories to support distance learning successes moving forward.