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What We’re Reading This Week: October 12, 2018

A weekly sampling of articles, blogs and reports relevant to TT educators.

A Teacher in California Is Explaining the Concept of Consent to Her Third-Graders With a Simple Chart

CNN

“Designed for 8- and 9-year-olds, it outlines when one should ask for consent, how to recognize it and what to do if it's denied. [Liz] Kleinrock shared the chart on her Instagram feed, where it gathered a lot of attention in recent days.”

 

REPORT: 100 Years of Hollywood Islamophobia

Colorlines

“A new report from the Pop Culture Collaborative details depictions of Muslims on screen—what the entertainment industry must do to uplift Muslim narratives that don’t damage the community.”

 

Even in #MeToo Era, Educators Still Aren't Sharing Their Stories

Education Dive

“They’re not reporting because they don’t think their case is serious enough to go that far, because they don’t think anything will happen as a result, or because they’re scared it will damage their workplace environment or lead to retaliation.”

 

'It's Just Heartwrenching,' Principal Says of Hurricane Michael's Rampage Through His School

Education Week

“[Principal Britt] Smith worries that the loss of the school's gym will add to his students' lost sense of safety in the wake of the devastating storm. For many of them, Hurricane Michael was their first brush with a storm of that magnitude that has caused such widespread destruction.”

 

These High School Students Are Tackling Kentucky's Mental Health Crisis

The Week

“One student told me that all of their suicide prevention education, which is mandated, technically, by Kentucky law but left up to districts to administer, is just a bookmark. A literal, physical bookmark that has a suicide prevention hotline number on it, and that was it.”

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