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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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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.
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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.
November 18, 2014
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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.
July 13, 2014
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Seeing the Whole Child
Learn how principal Susan Weinman embraces the whole child.
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A Message From Our Director
Teaching Tolerance director Maureen Costello reminds us that storytelling can conquer fears.
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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.
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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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Becoming a Village
This family-school-community partnerships model emphasizes a liberatory, whole-child approach and collective effort to nurturing all our children.