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March 13, 2014

The Mystery of the Adolescent Brain

March 10-14 is Brain Awareness Week. Take a moment to learn more about how brain awareness can actually change your students’ attitudes about their own brains—and even help them be more successful in school.

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July 8, 2014

Season of Terror

Before Freedom Summer began, Charles Moore and Henry Dee were the first victims of the project's white-supremacist backlash.

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Rights & Activism

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April 3, 2019

The Problem With the “Disney Version of History”

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. being detained and arrested by uniformed police officers.

We can celebrate Dr. King and interrupt the idea that our progress toward justice has been continuous and inevitable.

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 40, Fall 2011

Healing Touch

Susie King Taylor's illegal education as an enslaved child turned her into a teenage teacher and nurse during the Civil War.

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November 16, 2017

Learning to Save Ourselves

Atticus Finch and Tom Robinson in Court | To Kill a Mockingbird

When a book characterizes problematic “white savior” tropes, how can it be used to effectively question those concepts with students?

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Issue 46, Spring 2014

The Visibility Factor

Jeanie Greenidge felt invisible as a child. Now she’s helping make sure every student is seen.

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Christopher Howell

Christopher Howell (he/him) got his start teaching nine preschoolers at a small private school in Virginia Beach. After receiving his undergrad and graduate degrees from the University of Virginia, funded by the Gates Millennium Scholars Program, he went on to teach 4th and 5th grades for three years. He currently lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, and is an instructional coach for Albemarle County Public Schools.

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Critical Engagement With Materials

Critical engagement emphasizes the value of students’ learning, increasing the likelihood that they will use the knowledge and skills they build in the service of their academic, personal, social and political lives.

May 23, 2023

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September 9, 2021