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March 1, 2017

Teach This: HBCUs Are Not Pioneers of School Choice

This week’s statement from Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos on historically black colleges and universities is a prime example of whitewashing U.S. history. Classroom teachers for grades 6-12, however, can use this moment as a teaching opportunity.

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Rights & Activism

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March 1, 2017

Learning How to Know in 2017

How do your students learn how to know? And what does your teaching look like in the face of a devaluing of shared truth, deepening political polarization and the mainstreaming of intolerance?

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February 28, 2017

Learn Something New Every Day

Antisemitism is alive and well in the United States, and its proponents feel emboldened. The antidote? Anti-bias education.

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Religion

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February 28, 2017

Mix Longevity With Student Leadership…and Bake

The importance of relationships and community are woven into this school’s culture. How do they do it?

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Bullying & Bias Rights & Activism

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Signs behind the bar, in Birney, Montana

A black and white image of a wall behind a bar with signs that read "Positively No Beer Sold to Indians" and "God Bless America".

This photograph, from 1941, was taken by Marion Post Wolcott in Birney, Montana.

Marion Post Wolcott

Grade Level

3-5 6-8 9-12

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Rights & Activism

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History

February 27, 2017

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February 27, 2017

When Students Have Space to Talk About Their Cultures

An elementary school principal highlights what can happen when educators give students opportunities to talk about their cultures and to learn about the cultures of other students.

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Religion

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Bob Lewis

Bob is principal of Fox Road Magnet Elementary School, an IB World School in Raleigh, North Carolina. He has served in a variety of roles during his long career, including special education director and consulting roles. Most of his career has focused on working with culturally diverse, at-risk and high-poverty populations. Lewis holds great passion for the mission of building successful learners and works as a workshop leader for the International Baccalaureate organization; he has also served as a consultant for this organization.

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February 24, 2017

The Disturbing “Monkey Business” of U.S. Black-White Race Relations

Representations of black people as animals is both a past and present manifestation of the United States’ complicated history with race.

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February 24, 2017

What We’re Reading This Week: February 24

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

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I’m proud . . .

This poster, from 1944, was created by artist John Newton Howitt during World War II for the United States War Manpower Commission and the United States Office of War Information.

John Newton Howitt

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3-5 6-8 9-12

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

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History

February 23, 2017

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