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March 13, 2014

The Mystery of the Adolescent Brain

March 10-14 is Brain Awareness Week. Take a moment to learn more about how brain awareness can actually change your students’ attitudes about their own brains—and even help them be more successful in school.

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October 14, 2015

School Is No Place for Class(ism)

The language that educators use to address students can maintain and reinforce class structures and classist attitudes. The antidote? Anti-classist language.

Topic

Class Bullying & Bias

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Informational

On Whose Shoulders I Stand

Deborah Walker recalls that, growing up in segregated Birmingham, Alabama, fear and rage lived side by side. She credits her lifelong fight for equity to her guardian angels.

Deborah J. Walker

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement Rights & Activism

Subject

Civics

History

Geography

November 18, 2014

teaching strategy

Community Inquiry

Brain Share

During Brain Share, small groups of students rotate through stations, discussing and recording concepts from central texts. This strategy is a modified combination of gallery walks and jigsaw.

Grade Level

3-5

CCSS

RF.3-5.4, RL.3-5.1, RI.3-5.1, RL.3-5.2, RI.3-5.2, SL.3-5.1, SL.3-5.2

July 13, 2014

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Issue 46, Spring 2014

Seeing the Whole Child

Learn how principal Susan Weinman embraces the whole child.

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Issue 49, Spring 2015

A Message From Our Director

Teaching Tolerance director Maureen Costello reminds us that storytelling can conquer fears.

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June 6, 2018

Worried About a Friend? Use Your E.D.G.E.

Students don’t always know how to help someone they care about who might be experiencing bullying, suicidal thoughts or other problems. This can help.

Topic

Bullying & Bias Rights & Activism

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Engagement With Community Interests and Concerns

When students witness activist resistance to injustices in their own communities, it helps them better understand a core component of social justice education.

May 26, 2023

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Issue 6, Fall 2024

Becoming a Village

This family-school-community partnerships model emphasizes a liberatory, whole-child approach and collective effort to nurturing all our children.

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Understanding Voter Suppression in Today’s Election Process

Strategies to suppress voting continue to undermine our democracy today and have increased over the past two decades in response to political participation becoming more pluralistic.

October 11, 2024

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