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"I, too, am America."

This toolkit for “Polarized Classrooms” directs teachers to online resources on political ideology and partisanship.

This toolkit for “No Time Off” offers a planning tool for educators to help lighten the load for students who have significant out-of-school responsibilities.

This toolkit for “One Hundred Years in the Making” provides instructional ideas to experience the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) without traveling to Washington, D.C.

This toolkit for “If It Can Happen Here...” provides adapted versions of some of the lessons used during Berkeley’s immigration Teach In.

This toolkit for “Rock the Vote” lists 12 practical ways teachers and their students can rock the vote at school.

This toolkit for “Native Voices, Native Votes” charts a five-step plan for how educators can increase students’ knowledge about the history and current state of the Native vote.

This toolkit for “Pathways to Adulthood” offers ideas for how educators can engage high school seniors in meaningful learning that will support their transition to college, career and full-fledged civic participation.

When a country is compared to a continent, we effectively communicate that not all countries—or the people in them—are significant enough for us to name.

Scholars are divided on the role of the U.S. Supreme Court in the civil rights movement. This blogger, a history teacher, explains why this debate is a valuable lesson.