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Civil Rights Is All About Fairness
Use first-graders’ commitment to fairness to help them connect with the modern civil rights movement.
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Write to the Source
In Conversation
In Conversation asks students to demonstrate their narrative skills when applying different points of view in writing.
July 19, 2014
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Lighten Up
The editor of Teaching Tolerance reflects on the ups and downs of laughter.
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Do Something
Community Spotlight Cards
Students create “trading cards” spotlighting diverse community members who work toward social justice goals that connect to themes from the central text.
July 13, 2014
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He Ain't Heavy, He's My Student
As schools warm up to the idea of including a child's BMI (Body Mass Index) on his or her report card, perhaps we should evaluate the way we address the issue of childhood obesity. Yes, a high BMI can be dangerous. But as we've seen, the BMI can also be incredibly misleading.
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Leave Exclusion Out of the Group Dynamic
For the second week in a row, I was left partnerless in my graduate class. It was my own fault, I guess. I didn’t feel like moving. As I scanned the room, no one made eye contact with me or motioned toward me. It was clear that I would have to make the first move to ask to be included in a group—and, after a day filled with hundreds of tiny setbacks, I just didn’t feel like it.
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‘Switched’ Puts Deaf Culture in the Mainstream
Watching a television program featuring deaf and hard of hearing characters changed this teacher’s perspective. She wants to pass it on to her students.
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A Priceless Lesson in Humility
Felipe Morales' telling account of an encounter with a blind woman on the streets of Washington, D.C. was recorded for This I Believe. The NPR project features brief personal essays in which people from diverse backgrounds discuss how their values affect their daily lives.
July 2, 2014
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Ending Our Own ‘Two Minutes’ Hate’
I had coffee with a colleague recently and we discussed plans for lessons on Sept. 11. Robin outlined her discussion and writing plan based on George Orwell’s 1984—specifically on the “Two Minutes’ Hate” he describes.
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Representative Lewis Discusses Reenacting Historic Bus Rides of 1961 Video Transcript
This piece is to accompany The Freedom RidersForty years ago, a dozen or so friends decided to test a new ruling that banned the forced separation of whites and blacks in interstate travel. They became known as Freedom Riders, and they paved the way for the civil rights struggle. John Lewis joined the original rides. He is now a Congressman from Georgia. Well, today they're retracing their steps from the spring of '61.
April 5, 2011