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Mutual Learning Through Conversation

Certain encounters help young students develop values and virtues that open spaces in their minds and hearts so they can see the world and its people in broader terms.

Professional Development Topic

Instruction

Topic

Immigration

July 5, 2017

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Section IV: Policy Checkup

To ensure students feel welcome, valued and safe enough to learn, schools must actively cultivate a welcoming climate that values every member of its student body. This means that the spoken and unspoken messages

Topic

Immigration

July 5, 2017

publication

Section III: Family Engagement

It is impossible to really see and understand students without understanding their lives outside of school. If handled with respect and cultural sensitivity, school-family relationships can deepen trust and positively

Topic

Immigration

July 5, 2017

publication

Section II: Classroom Culture

Best Practices for Serving English Language Learners and Their Families

Topic

Immigration

July 5, 2017

publication

Section I: Instruction

Zaretta Hammond is a writer and consultant who specializes in the science of teaching and learning. “Becoming culturally responsive starts with showing genuine caring that recognizes the unique gifts and talents of every

Topic

Immigration

July 5, 2017

article

Issue 56, Summer 2017

Walking Undocumented

Wildin Acosta will walk across the graduation stage in June—but he almost didn't make it. Read about his incredible journey and the team of student journalists and teachers who helped make it happen.

Topic

Immigration

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Informational

Street Justice

The distrust between the Jewish community and African-American community in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn in the 1990s reached an all-time high when a runaway car struck two children.

Jim Carnes

Grade Level

6-8

Topic

Religion Immigration

Subject

History

May 22, 2017

text

Informational

In the City of Brotherly Love

“The Irish and the English share a long legacy of conflict.” And this conflict extended across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World as a wave of Catholic immigrants arrived in the United States in the 1820s.

Jim Carnes

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Religion Class Immigration Bullying & Bias Rights & Activism

Subject

Civics

History

May 22, 2017

article

Issue 56, Summer 2017

A Case for Acculturation

It’s time to update the way we think—and talk—about immigrant students.

Topic

Immigration

lesson

Analyzing the School Holiday Calendar

These activities ask students to engage with the question of what an equitable school calendar looks like and how to make their own school calendar more inclusive.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Religion Immigration Rights & Activism

May 1, 2017

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