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September 26, 2013

Put Your Hand Up

Hand-raising workshops combat participation inequity.

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Gender & Sexual Identity

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Issue 46, Spring 2014

Toolkit for The Gentle Catalyst

As adults and authority figures, teachers have power over their students. This toolkit is an “adult privilege” checklist teachers can use as a self-assessment tool to help them think about their own privilege in the classroom.

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May 2, 2014

Kenji's Dad(s)

This writer had a light-bulb moment about his student's family—and about himself.

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Gender & Sexual Identity

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June 3, 2013

Cheerios Expands the View of Family

General Mills recently ran an ad for Cheerios cereal featuring an interracial couple and their child. This is cause for celebration and an opportunity to help students explore race and expand media literacy. Unfortunately, not all viewers saw it that way.

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June 17, 2016

Happy Juneteenth!

Statues depicting emancipated enslaved people celebrating and looking towards the sky.

The emancipation story remains largely incomplete, over 150 years later.

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Rights & Activism

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June 24, 2015

Weeding Out Hate, Sowing Love

Horrified at a fourth-grade teacher’s hateful Facebook rant after the pool incident in McKinney, Texas, this TT staffer realizes she could have been just like that teacher—if not for strong anti-bias education.

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Bullying & Bias

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June 25, 2015

After the Flag Comes Down

There’s growing momentum to take down Confederate flags, but our work to denounce systemic racism cannot stop at symbolic markers.

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Rights & Activism

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August 20, 2015

Building a Community of Upstanders: Planning

In the final installment of the three-part blog series, this Mix It Up coordinator shares how her school plans for the big event

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Clarice Brazas

Clarice Brazas (she/her) holds an Ed. S. in Instructional Technology from the University of West Georgia. She is in her 13th year of teaching and is always looking for ways to improve her craft. The first three years of her career were spent working with students who had emotional and behavioral needs, which early on gave her the desire to educate students in a holistic and engaging way. Currently, Clarice teaches Humanities at The U School, an open admission, learner-centered school in the School District of Philadelphia. After moving to Philadelphia from Atlanta in 2017, she was introduced

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September 12, 2011

Portfolio Activity for “Bully at the Blackboard”

When schools implement anti-bullying programs, the focus is usually centered on student-to-student bullying. However, students aren’t the only bullies in school. Teachers sometimes earn the label when they employ

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