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Connecting Past and Present With Primary Sources
When two American Studies teachers combined their classes to discuss school integration, they fostered a depth of learning they never anticipated.
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lesson
“Mainstream, USA”
In this lesson, students will see how statistical data can tell a larger story, understand numbers in various contexts and explore different points of view in relation to data. They will also consider how—as future voters—they will help determine how the political process can serve everybody.
September 29, 2014
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Back to School After Charlottesville: Time to Disrupt Inequity
It’s time to be a disruptive peacemaker. In the classroom, that means being an anti-racist educator.
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Why I'll Never Teach This Powerful Book Again
This teacher's classes were in the middle of reading a Sherman Alexie classic that spurred deep discussions and powerful writing. Then several women came forward to say #metoo about the author.
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Black Soldiers: Global Conflict During Jim Crow
Episode 9, Season 4 U.S. involvement in world wars and the domestic Black freedom struggle shaped one another. By emphasizing the diverse stories of servicemen and women, historian Adriane Lentz-Smith situates Black
December 13, 2021
professional development
Democratic Classrooms
Educators possess different philosophies and styles for their teaching. Some work from an authoritarian perspective, leveraging their power as the teacher to control student behavior and dictate classroom participation. Others employ a more democratic approach, sharing power with students and supporting them in managing their own behaviors.
July 6, 2009
student task
Write to the Source
A Two-Sided Coin
A Two-Sided Coin asks students to demonstrate their explanatory and comparative writing skills.
July 19, 2014
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Know Your Audience, Find Your Power
"There’s nothing wrong with the way your grandparents talk,” my elementary school teachers used to say. “Standard English is different. Not better or worse. It’s just a way of talking that you need to know.”
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Charter Schools: Resegregating America?
Are charter schools helping to resegregate public schools? A just-released study states flatly that they are.
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Hundreds of Offenses Go Unchecked
We are all still thinking, talking, teaching and grieving about the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old in Florida, wearing that universal hoodie. Again, as a nation, we confront the issue of race and what it means to be an African-American teenage male in this country.