The Kids are not the Threat

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 26.01.07

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Background And School Context
  4. Objectives
  5. Essential Questions
  6. Content
  7. Teaching Strategies
  8. Building Community Through A Social Contract
  9. Inquiry-based Learning
  10. Six Thinking Hats
  11. Reflective Writing And Collaborative Discussion
  12. Classroom Activities
  13. Annotated Bibliography
  14. Appendix On Implementing District Standards
  15. Reading And Media List
  16. Supplemental And Youth Voice Texts
  17. Notes

Lean on Me: Finding Voice, Honoring Difference, and Standing on Business

Debra D. Jenkins

Published September 2026

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Notes

[1] Roderick A. Ferguson, We Demand: The University and Student Protests (Oakland: University of California Press, 2017), 5.

[2] Edward de Bono, Six Thinking Hats (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1985), 82.

[3] Angela Y. Davis and Fania Davis, “Slaying the Dream: The Black Family and the Crisis of Capitalism,” in Women, Culture & Politics (New York: Vintage Books, 1990), 72.

[4] U.S. Congress, Senate, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws, Proposed Academic Freedom Protective Act of 1969: Hearing on S. 1988, 91st Cong., U.S. Government Printing Office, 1969), 2.

[5] Ella Baker, “Bigger Than a Hamburger,” The Southern Patriot 18 (May 1960), https://www.crmvet.org/docs/sncc2.htm; Fridays for Future, “How Greta Started a Global Movement,” accessed August 9, 2026, http://fridaysforfuture.org/what-we-do/who-we-are/.

[6] Cathy J. Cohen, Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010). 10-11.

[7] The Librarians, directed by Kim A. Snyder (2025), 1 hr., 25 min., PBS, https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/the-librarians/.

[8] 19 Tex. Admin. Code § 110.36 (2026), “English Language Arts and Reading, English I (One Credit), Adopted 2017,” accessed August 8, 2026, https://texas-sos.appianportalsgov.com/rules-and-meetings?$locale=en_US&interface=VIEW_TAC_SUMMARY&queryAsDate=08%2F16%2F2026&recordId=196165

[9] 19 Tex. Admin. Code § 110.36.

[10] 19 Tex. Admin. Code § 110.36.

[11] 19 Tex. Admin. Code § 110.36.

[12] 19 Tex. Admin. Code § 110.36.

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