teaching strategy
Responding to the Read-Aloud Text
Readers' Theater
During a readers’ theater, two or more students dramatize a text by reading expressively.
July 19, 2014
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Planting the Seeds for Student Growth
Sometimes, a small gesture makes an incredible impact. This former teacher reflects on how her son’s preschool teacher worked to build authentic relationships with her students.
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Back to School After Charlottesville: Time to Disrupt Inequity
It’s time to be a disruptive peacemaker. In the classroom, that means being an anti-racist educator.
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We Are Once Again Reeling From Grief and Outrage
As we grieve with Uvalde, Texas, let’s commit to a renewed fight for change.
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Creating Brave Spaces: Reckoning With Race in the Classroom
Episode 2, Season 4 People from all corners of public life are telling teachers to stop discussions about race and racism in the classroom, but keeping the truth of the world from students simply doesn’t work. English
August 30, 2021
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Literature
Yaki's Mural
In this Story Corner from Teaching Tolerance Magazine, Yaki is nervous about making friends at her new school but finds a way to share her culture and art with her new class by creating a class mural.
October 8, 2018
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Yaki’s Mural
Yaki struggles to feel at home in her new country and her new school, but her creativity and Mayan culture help to ease the transition.
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Informational
Si Se Puede
“In response to legislation that would have criminalized immigrants, thousands of high school students from across the country walked out of their classrooms and into history.”
August 9, 2017
student task
Do Something
Community Bulletin Board
Students showcase artwork and nonfiction writing that addresses issues they found in the text. The result is a visual, collaborative and creative representation of student learning and ideas. An alternative to the bulletin board is a community newsletter.
July 13, 2014
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Mix Brings Visibility to the Invisible
“Privilege is choosing what we do not see” -Dorothy Soelles These words speak to my ongoing journey out of homophobia—a journey that began over a decade ago in Mississippi.