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June 27, 2016

In the Wake of Orlando: Helping Students Heal

TT’s Teaching and Learning Specialist Jarah Botello offers some classroom discussion prompts and activities that can help students process the horrific tragedy in Orlando and move toward healing.

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Gender & Sexual Identity Bullying & Bias

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July 19, 2016

Magical Cloaks and Targets?

In the wake of more shootings, this white educator and father contemplates how he can undermine a system that makes his sons and him safer than their African-American counterparts.

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February 2, 2017

Thinking With Hannah Arendt About Responsibility

What makes 20th-century political theorist Hannah Arendt’s analysis so relevant to our times, and what might educators gain from studying her works?

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December 9, 2013

Commemorating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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On this important anniversary, integrate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into your classroom reading instruction.

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Rights & Activism

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May 1, 2014

Making the Most of Make-up Work

Helping students get back on track after an absence not only helps them learn, it helps them maintain positive connections to your classroom.

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Issue 52, Spring 2016

Begin Within

Prepare yourself to discuss race, racism and other difficult topics with students.

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Issue 33, Spring 2008

Making Numbers Count

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How social justice math can help students transform people, politics and communities

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Rights & Activism

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September 7, 2017

One Penny and a Rock

Tangible items can be reminders of the value of people’s unique stories, of building relationships with students and colleagues, and of our mission as educators to teach acceptance and respect.

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Rights & Activism

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January 29, 2010

Taking A Stand Against Sexual Bullying

The United States Justice Department recently struck a blow against bullying behavior. Officials there reversed a decade-old policy and asked to intervene in a harassment suit brought by a gay youth.

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Gender & Sexual Identity Bullying & Bias

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November 16, 2009

red·skin \ˈred-ˌskin\(noun) usually offensive : American IndianNote the “usually offensive” — a warning from one of the more neutral arbitrators of American English, Merriam-Webster. “Redskin” is a pejorative term, and should be used with caution, if at all.

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Bullying & Bias

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