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"Turn Beauty Inside Out Day" Winning Essays

These essays accompany the lesson "Beauty Is Skin Deep."

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Bullying & Bias

Subject

Reading & Language Arts

Social Studies

SEL

Science & Health

July 17, 2017

article

September 29, 2017

First, Denounce the Act

School leaders can learn a lot from Lt. General Jay Silveria’s response to a horrible incident at the Air Force Academy Prep School.

Topic

Rights & Activism

article

Issue 50, Summer 2015

Making Space

Illustration of an orange flower given space among many white flowers

Affinity groups offer a platform for voices often relegated to the margins.

page

Music Reconstructed: Adia Victoria and the Landscape of the Blues

Installment 3 When we consider the trauma of white supremacy during the Jim Crow era—what writer Ralph Ellison describes as “the brutal experience”—it’s important to understand the resilience and joy that sustained Black

April 12, 2022

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Literature

Chicken Soup: A Russian Tale of Giving

As the tsar sets out across the countryside in disguise, he meets two very different families and learns of the differing people (and their motives) living in his land.

Irina Starovoytova

Grade Level

K-2 3-5

Topic

Class

July 2, 2014

article

March 17, 2020

A Healthy Reminder to Educators During School Closures

Young student in head wrap reading materials in their lap seated on a bed.

An instructional coach experiencing long-term school closures in Washington state shares some encouraging words for fellow educators who are grappling with the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak and their own emotions.

Topic

Class Bullying & Bias Rights & Activism

article

July 23, 2013

Talk with Students About Slut-Shaming

Slut-shaming is a dangerous phenomenon in schools, but there are ways to support students.

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity Bullying & Bias

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Informational

A Painter Named Kennedy

Meet Kennedy, of Mombasa, Kenya. His wheelchair doesn’t stop him from making the world a more beautiful place.

Jerry McGill & Jason Raish (illustrator)

Grade Level

3-5

Topic

Ability Class

Subject

Economics

Geography

January 23, 2017

article

July 24, 2014

The Zero Effect

As teachers, it is our job to set kids up to succeed, not to fail. Changing some of our grading practices is a good place to start.

author

Val Brown

Val Brown is the Principal Academic Officer for the Center for Antiracist Education. She believes that education is a vehicle for social change, and encourages educators to engage in public discourse about critical topics because it allows them to learn with and from others. She is currently pursuing her doctorate in Curriculum, Teaching and Teacher Education.

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