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The Problem With Pronouns
Supporting trans and gender-fluid students requires the courage to try until you get it right.
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What Is Your American Flag?
Two drastically different images of the American flag have appeared in popular culture. What might they reveal about the state of race relations in the United States?
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You Spoke, We Listened
The Spring and Summer issues of Teaching Tolerance sparked tremendous response—from a critique of our latest cover story to praise for the art that enlivens our pages.
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i will be chosen
i will be chosen is an anthem for all middle schoolers who knows what it feels like to be left out. Now, they’ll know what it feels like to be included and to win, in more ways than one.
July 9, 2014
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Seeing the Whole Child
Learn how principal Susan Weinman embraces the whole child.
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Engaging Families and Caregivers
When educators actively engage the people who are central to children’s lives outside of school, they are building networks that support students’ experiences within school as well.
November 21, 2023
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Announcing Our Newest Curriculum: ‘Teaching the Civil Rights Movement’
If young people are to make the vision of a just and peaceful world a reality, we must give them the tools to build a strong multiracial democracy—and those tools include an accurate, comprehensive and inclusive history of the United States. We are thrilled to introduce Teaching the Civil Rights Movement, our newest curriculum, which begins in 1877 with Reconstruction and continues the narrative of the movement for equality and civil rights to the present. At this critical moment in which states and districts are attempting to censor discussions of race and racism in U.S.
- Teaching the Civil Rights Movement
- Teaching Hard History: American Slavery
- Teaching Hard History Podcast Series
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Learning from the 'Love Mail'
Curriculum specialist and writer Jeff Sapp on starting a conversation in the face of pushback and ignorance.
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Ted and Me: In Memoriam
Like many, if not most, I had a rough first year as a teacher. I was 21 years old and full of passion and desire but little else. I had survived student teaching on the Navajo Reservation for six months, but arrived on the other side of that experience with much to learn. I was teaching two-hour blocks of seventh-grade history and English. I was struggling on almost every level in almost every area.
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Supreme Court Narrowly Allows 1965 Voting Rights Act to Stand Transcript
This piece is to accompany African Americans Face and Fight Obstacles to Voting
November 4, 2011