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March 20, 2018

Permission to Walk Out: They Didn’t Ask, I Didn’t Give It

This principal issued over 100 discipline referrals last week—and he couldn’t be more proud.

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March 14, 2018

Insist on Persistent Women: Women's History in the K-8 Classroom

Young people need stories of persistent women who have fought for gender equality. Women's History Month is a good time for us to recommit to teaching those stories.

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Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism

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March 14, 2018

Walkout Day

This teacher built a custom lesson plan to mark a day when thousands of students walked out of their schools in protest. Check it out—and build your own!

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Rights & Activism

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March 13, 2018

Teaching to End Tragedy: A Call to Elementary School Teachers

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This educator asks elementary teachers: Is your classroom preparing students to work toward healthier, safer, more equitable communities—or to do worksheets?

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Rights & Activism

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March 8, 2018

Hate at School: February 2018

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In a month featuring systemic issues, targeted threats and Black History Month backlash, we tracked 71 school-based episodes of hate in 29 states.

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Bullying & Bias

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March 8, 2018

Destigmatizing Privilege

Privilege can be a sticky subject, but this teacher introduces it to her fourth-graders as a tool they can use to elevate others.

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March 6, 2018

Broken and Healing: Normalizing Mental Health Issues in Our Classrooms

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If we want our students to feel safe and accepting of their own mental health issues, can we model that by being open ourselves?

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Ability Bullying & Bias

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March 5, 2018

When Trivia Isn’t Trivial

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One teacher explains how she turned “Thanksgiving Trivia” into an opportunity to share under-taught history with her colleagues as well as her students, regardless of the time of year.

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Bullying & Bias

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Growing up with a racially conscious mother, Katherine Watkins has been educated on Native American and African American literature and continues to enrich her knowledge as an avid reader. With African-American, Cherokee, Apache, Choctaw, Comanche and Irish ancestry, she is extremely interested in improving race relations, as can be seen in her classroom and activism work. Watkins is a veteran teacher of 20 years and is working on her second memoir and a novella.

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March 2, 2018

Why I'll Never Teach This Powerful Book Again

This teacher's classes were in the middle of reading a Sherman Alexie classic that spurred deep discussions and powerful writing. Then several women came forward to say #metoo about the author.

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Gender & Sexual Identity

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