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Issue 36, Fall 2009

What Can This Student Teach You About the Classroom?

Teaching Tolerance illustration of a smiley student

She was always smarter than the curriculum allowed her to be. Now one Miami student is showing future teachers how to keep students engaged.

Topic

Class Rights & Activism

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Issue 36, Fall 2009

Our Journey to Kindergarten

Photo of two adults holding hands while a happy child run at the park

For one family, finding a kindergarten classroom meant getting honest about race, class and privilege.

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Issue 36, Fall 2009

Close to Home

Jackie Brown prided herself on teaching her students about disabilities. But could she confront her own feelings about her mother and polio?

Topic

Ability

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Issue 36, Fall 2009

Know Your Audience, Find Your Power

"There’s nothing wrong with the way your grandparents talk,” my elementary school teachers used to say. “Standard English is different. Not better or worse. It’s just a way of talking that you need to know.”

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Place as a Mirror of Self and Community

Students will understand difference and community by exploring a special place in their lives.

Grade Level

3-5

Subject

Social Studies

Geography

SEL

August 18, 2009

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Chris Morton

Chris Morton is the New York State Director of American Atheists, Inc., in Yorktown Heights, N.Y.

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Norma E. Cantú

Norma E. Cantú, a native of the borderlands, is a professor of English at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

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Steve Wessler

Steve Wessler is the founding director of the Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence at the University of Southern Maine.

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Kathy Briccetti

Kathy Briccetti works as a school psychologist and freelance writer in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Charles Suhor

Charles Suhor is former deputy executive director and anti-censorship field representative for the National Council of Teachers of English.