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May 22, 2014

Community, Home and Schools—Relationships We Can’t Ignore

Going into children’s communities is the best way for teachers to learn about the cultural wealth existing in homes and to understand the importance of including families in the education of their children.

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Teresa L. Reed

Teresa L. Reed, Ph.D., (she/her) serves as the dean of the School of Music at the University of Louisville. The author of several books including The Holy Profane: Religion in Black Popular Music and The Jazz Life of Dr. Billy Taylor, Reed has lectured nationally and internationally on music theory and African American music. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including the Journal of Religious Thought, Popular Music and Society and the Black Music Research Journal. She was previously on the faculty at the University of Tulsa and during her 25-year tenure there served as director

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November 8, 2011

Turning Headlines into Impromptu Lessons

The explosion of news coverage over the controversial execution of Troy Davis in Georgia recently is a reminder that our students learn powerful lessons outside our classrooms. These events offer opportunities for lessons of context inside our classrooms.

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Rights & Activism

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August 3, 2011

Tracking Derails Diversity

The first day of my second year of teaching, a third-grader walked into class, saw another student and punched him in the nose. He didn’t say anything or give any indication that he was going to do this. It just happened. After cleaning up the blood and redirecting the class, I asked the attacker why he wanted to punch someone else. “He’s Mexican,” he said. “He don’t belong in my class.”

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Rights & Activism

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On Being Brought From Africa to America

In this poem, the speaker explores the relationship between her Christian beliefs and her enslavement. She reminds her readers of the Christian belief that anyone, regardless of their race, can follow Christianity and be saved.

Phillis Wheatley

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9-12

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Religion Rights & Activism

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History

Geography

July 7, 2014

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The Early Republic

In this lesson, students examine voting rights in the early years of the United States and the causes and effects of the first major expansion of voting rights, which took place in the late 1700s and first half of the 1800s. By the end of the lesson, students will be able to explain where various groups of Americans stood regarding the right to vote before the Civil War, and will hypothesize about what they expect happened next.

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6-8 9-12

Topic

Rights & Activism

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Reading & Language Arts

Social Studies

Civics

History

October 21, 2011

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Issue 49, Spring 2015

Toolkit for Behind the Shield

Critical literacy is just as important for visual texts, such as cartoons, as it is for the written word. This toolkit will help your students read Sikhtoons while thinking about the social justice implications.

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Issue 30, Fall 2006

Learning Lakota

Chris Mosner's class starts every day with a drum circle.

For a high school on South Dakota's Rosebud Reservation, culturally responsive curriculum may be the best antidote to the violence, poverty and growing cultural disconnect hindering student success.

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August 17, 2017

“But What About Antifa?”

Never let the fear of a follow-up question silence a discussion—even if that’s its intended purpose.

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Bullying & Bias

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Extreme Prejudice

Join us and our friends from the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding for this one-hour webinar, and learn try-tomorrow strategies that can help you teach about extremism accurately, responsibly and safely.

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Religion

April 19, 2016

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