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Strategies for Teaching Highly Mobile Students
The National Center for Homeless Education (NCHE) advocates tailoring strategies to address three areas of unique need for highly mobile students.
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Being Different Is Like a Part-Time Job
Eighteen-year-old Sandra exemplifies a strong sense of self, as she talks to her peers about why she doesn’t conform to societal gender norms.
December 11, 2014
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Write to the Source
Beautiful Language
Beautiful Language asks students to demonstrate their narrative skills when writing to gain the understanding of others.
July 19, 2014
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Six Lessons from Jena
Six lessons to take from the 2006 "Jena Six" incident.
March 2, 2010
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Let the Freedom Rides Roll Through Your Class
When many students think of buses and desegregation, their minds instantly go to Rosa Parks and the 1954 Montgomery Bus Boycott. But the larger civil rights fight over transportation took place seven years later with the Freedom Rides.
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Executive Orders and Checks and Balances
Looking for straightforward information about executive orders to share with your students? Teaching Tolerance Director Maureen Costello breaks it down.
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Proclamation: To the Great White Father (November, 1969)
The announcement on November 20, 1969 from 89 American Indians – mostly students from colleges and universities – that they were taking over Alcatraz Island, set in motion what would become the longest occupation of a federal facility by Native Americans to date. This report aired a year later on NBC News, in December 1970, six months before the occupation ended.
July 2, 2014
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When Teachers Read the World
A teacher book group dedicated to reading diverse literature for young people and adults can foster cultural competence and support anti-bias teaching.
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“But What About Antifa?”
Never let the fear of a follow-up question silence a discussion—even if that’s its intended purpose.