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"Safe Saturday" Conversations About Race
An educator’s message motivated by personal unresolved grief leads to the creation of a safe space for intensive, interactive learning about racism and honest U.S. history.
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Decarceration Begins With School Discipline Reform
Educators have a role in ending discipline that criminalizes youth. Reforms, including trauma-informed and restorative practices, can disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline.
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Why I’m A Racist
A white man writes about his journey to understanding his racial privilege and the “benefit of the doubt” that life has afforded him.
December 5, 2017
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It's Time to Talk About Dr. Seuss
In light of a new study revealing stereotyped characters across Dr. Seuss’s children’s books, published just before Read Across America Day, how can educators engage older students in a critical discussion of this canonical author?
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Access for All
With the help of a Teaching Tolerance Educator Grant, this teacher created a space where DeafBlind students could be themselves and teach the larger school community about DeafBlindness.
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Accepting Change Because My Students Accepted First
After surviving a devastating car accident, this teacher realizes her true purpose in the classroom.
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Birdsong guides a tribe home
“The desert-dwelling Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians were uprooted from their ancestral lands. For decades, they were cheated of the property rights deeded to them by the U.S. government, and then subject to restrictive deed provisions. Not until the 1980s were they able to develop their own land in Palm Springs, and only recently have they begun to restore the springs revered by their ancestors. Tribal council member Anthony J. Andreas III battles the severe mental health problems that afflict the traumatized tribe by reviving ancestral practices. Traditional Bird Songs and pottery help today’s youth draw strength from the tribe’s sources of spiritual resilience.”
June 27, 2019
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Teaching About Mass Incarceration: The Ongoing Narrative of Racial Oppression
We need to talk about mass incarceration in schools, and the conversation can’t stop after one discussion.
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Checking Yourself for Bias in the Classroom
Unconscious bias can shape the responses of even the most well-intentioned educators. But you can check yourself—one teacher shares how.