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Discipline That Works

Earlier this month, hundreds of educators, parents and students gathered at the Educating Youth of Color Summit in Colorado Springs, Colo. That the state’s 4th Judicial District sponsored the event was no accident.
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When Language Intersects with Race and Culture

The room was quiet. In our staff development session, we had just watched a short video about the best way to instruct our students in speaking Standard English. The teacher in the video explained to her students that they would be practicing the “language of the job interview.” My school director asked, “How did people feel about that?”
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Ninth Ward

The narrative voice belongs to Lanesha, a 12-year-old girl growing up in New Orleans. Lanesha is frequently picked on and teased because she has a special gift—the ability to see ghosts and spirits. Used to being bullied herself, in this scene Lanesha is a witness when someone else is the target.
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Jewell Parker Rhodes
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3-5 6-8
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Bullying & Bias Rights & Activism
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July 2, 2014
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Nobody Dared Her to Do It

Reverend Noel Koestline and Reverend Spencer Turnipseed remember Turnipseed's sister, Marti, the first white student to join Birmingham's sit-in movement.
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Rev. Noel Koestline and Rev. Spencer Turnipseed (Brother)
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6-8 9-12
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Rights & Activism
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Civics
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November 18, 2014
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Putting Governor Ralph Northam's Blackface Controversy in Perspective

When racist incidents occur, students often need historical perspective to understand the depth of the offense. That's why our Teaching Hard History framework is so important, and that's why we're offering this edition of The Moment. Your students may have questions about the governor of Virginia's admission that he once dressed in blackface.

  • When Our Leaders Let Us Down
  • We’ve Got Egg on Our Blackface
  • “Playing Black” for Laughs