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Mix It Up at Lunch: Not Just for Kids!
This year, nearly 50 institutions of higher education hosted Mix It Up events on their campuses.
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Getting Ready for the 2018 Midterm Election
Even if your students are too young to vote, there are plenty of ways they can get involved in the last few days of this year's election season. Try sharing our Voting and Voices pledge and Story Corner video to encourage them to talk with their families about voting. Or check out our Voting and Voices classroom resources for ready-to-use lessons, texts and activities that can get students of all ages excited about Tuesday's elections!
- Pledge to Participate!
- Having the Talk
- Voting and Voices Classroom Resources
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November 2, 2018
What We’re Reading This Week: November 2, 2018
A weekly sampling of articles, blogs and reports relevant to TT educators.
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Section IV: Family and Community Engagement
Being an ally to LGBTQ students means bringing people in and reaching out. With these tips, we hope you can create a community within and beyond the school that helps all families feel valued and helps all students feel
October 31, 2018
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“I See New York City as a Classroom”
TT Educator Grants support social justice work at the classroom, school and district levels. School Programs Coordinator Jey Ehrenhalt spoke with Abby MacPhail about her project training students to become photojournalists of housing injustice in New York City.
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Addressing Anti-immigrant Myths and Rhetoric
This week students witnessed troops being deployed to the southern border in response to migrants seeking asylum. They also heard anti-immigrant rhetoric and threats to the birthright citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment. This edition of The Moment offers resources you can use to dispel myths, humanize immigrant experiences and make your support for all students heard.
- Ten Myths About Immigration
- This Is Not a Drill
- Julia Moves to the United States
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Section III: Instruction
Integrating Queer Voices into the Curriculum It may seem like a minor adjustment for a teacher to mention a queer figure in history or analyze a queer character in a work of literature. But affirming an LGBTQ student’s
October 29, 2018
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Teach About Blackface and Other Racist Halloween Choices
As Halloween approaches, how are you talking to your students about the impact of their costume choices? Here are three techniques any educator can try.
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Pittsburgh Shooting Reminds Us Why We Must Talk About Hate
A shooting at a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, synagogue has left 11 people dead. Although we’ve witnessed hate-fueled moments many times before, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t talk about them when they occur. If we don’t, it means we’ve normalized them.