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Mix It Up: Score One for Humanity

Two truths and one lie. That’s how Mix It Up at Lunch Day began at Fordson High School in Dearborn, Mich. Students sat down to lunch with people who were not in their usual social circle. As an icebreaker, students played a game in which one person told two truths and one lie: the rest of the group had to guess which statement was false.
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Saving the Lives of Our LGBT Students

If you are the kind of educator who builds a safe and open classroom culture and teaches with a compassionate heart, students will come to you. They will share their secrets. The culture you create in the classroom can often serve as an invitation for students to seek solace and advice outside of class. We have all faced the blessings (and burdens) of our students’ trust. A new study out of Northwestern University (where I teach) reminds us that we must be prepared for our students’ stories to come tumbling out.
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Gender & Sexual Identity
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Community Puzzle Mural

Students create a community puzzle mural, a large-scale artistic depiction, usually displayed in a community space. Puzzle pieces covered in student’s artwork relating to diversity, anti-bias or social justice themes from the central text comprise the mural.
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K-2
July 13, 2014
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Barbie Garayúa Tudryn

Barbie is a school counselor at a dual-language elementary school in North Carolina, and a member of the Teaching Tolerance Advisory Board. Her passion for issues of race, immigration, gender and sexual justice is a strong influence in her school counseling program. In 2013, Garayúa-Tudryn founded Mariposas, a group for Latina girls that promotes empowerment by exploring issues of intersectionality, social emotional health and civic engagement.
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Dr. Claudia Peralta

Dr. Claudia Peralta is a professor in the Literacy Department at Boise State University. Her research interests focus on bilingual education, literacy and biliteracy, multicultural education, and social justice. She has published extensively in both English and Spanish, and her latest work focuses on the schooling experiences of Latinos and refugee students both in the U.S. and in their country of origin.
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Dr. Kiara Lee-Heart

Dr. Kiara Lee-Heart is a native of Richmond, Virginia. She holds a B.A. in sociology with a minor in Latin American and Iberian Studies from the University of Richmond and a master’s degree in education from the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education. She earned her Ph.D. in education at Virginia Commonwealth University and her dissertation research focused on colorism and the lived experiences of dark-skinned Black college students. She teaches first-year students writing and critical thinking skills in the Department of Focused Inquiry at Virginia Commonwealth University. Kiara