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After learning an important lesson about student engagement as a classroom teacher, this teacher educator passed it on to her pre-service teachers: Focus on connecting with students versus trying to control them.

This toolkit for "'Own Your Voice'" is a three-part activity for grades 8–12 that engages students with the Maria Hinojosa interview and asks them to conduct their own interviews that amplify “voice” and tell untold stories.

This toolkit for “Questioning Payne” offers ways to shift your school from a deficit-based mind-set to an equity literacy model.

To facilitate difficult conversations with your students, equip them with strategies they can use to persevere when emotions run high. Let’s Talk, the publication from which “Begin Within” was excerpted, includes several pedagogical approaches to help students learn to sit with their discomfort and to moderate it over time.

This toolkit distills information from “Closed for Business” into nine questions (to ask and answer) about school closures. Integrate these questions into your next discussion about education reform.

This toolkit for “Smart Tech Use for Equity” provides a template you and your colleagues can use to support all students’ learning and development with technology.

This toolkit for “Segregation Forever?” provides an activity for students to use statistics and written analysis to express complex ideas about history.

Empathy and academics need not be mutually exclusive. In fact, a focus on empathy can increase student achievement. This toolkit for “Empathy for the ‘A’” shows teachers how to build empathy into their practice with a few adjustments to the things they already do.

This toolkit for “Shifting Out of Neutral” focuses on historical thinking development through critical literacy and builds on author Jonathan Gold’s call for educators to acknowledge and teach about power and bias.