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Fostering Biophilia
Environmental awareness isn’t just about facts; emotional development plays an important role.
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Ding! Start Your Class off Right!
Bell ringers jump-start student learning and take the chaos out of the beginning of class.
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What Is This “Learning Plan”?
How is a Perspectives learning plan different from traditional lesson plans?
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Perspective Taking
When this teacher assigned her students to debate a topic, they learned more than effective argumentation—they learned how to consider the perspectives of others.
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Toolkit for "We Spoke the Right Things"
Field trips can be a great opportunity to take critical literacy to a new level. This toolkit will help you prepare your students to take on social justice issues on trips.
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Religious Diversity in the Classroom
Teaching Tolerance and the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding teamed up to offer educators a free webinar series: Religious Diversity in the Classroom.
September 10, 2014
teaching strategy
Community Inquiry
Text Talk Time (6-8, 9-12)
A whole class discussion structured to facilitate rich dialogue, active listening and use of textual evidence.
July 13, 2014
student task
Do Something
Puppet Show
Students design, create and perform a puppet show to teach others about a diversity, anti-bias or social justice theme from the central text.
July 13, 2014
student task
Do Something
Inventing a Better World
Students invent a product or process that solves a social problem discussed in the central text.
July 13, 2014
teaching strategy
Exploring Texts Through Read Alouds
Student Journals
Student journals are a collection of students’ written and illustrated predictions, reactions, understandings and questions based on Perspectives central text read alouds.
July 13, 2014