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Teaching Teachers: PD To Improve Student Achievement

"What matters most is what teachers learn." Overview Good teachers form the foundation of good schools, and improving teachers’ skills and knowledge is one of the most important investments of time and money that local

Professional Development Topic

Teacher Leadership

June 30, 2017

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June 9, 2025

Understanding How Schools Are Labeled

Understanding How Schools Are Labels - image of adults studying papers

What goes into the process of labeling schools, and how reliable are those labels — especially when a school is labeled as “failing”? This is the second of three articles on public schools as a common good, which explore the possibilities and threats to public education.

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Issue 46, Spring 2014

Toolkit for The Gentle Catalyst

As adults and authority figures, teachers have power over their students. This toolkit is an “adult privilege” checklist teachers can use as a self-assessment tool to help them think about their own privilege in the classroom.

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Issue 26, Fall 2004

The Lesson I've Learned, the Lesson I Teach

This reflection accompanies the feature story " Voices of Columbine." By Kiki Leyba April 20, 1999: Reacting Fourth hour. I'm hustling to Frank's office. The principal is going to offer me — a first-year teacher — a

Topic

Rights & Activism

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July 10, 2018

Planting the Seeds for Student Growth

Sometimes, a small gesture makes an incredible impact. This former teacher reflects on how her son’s preschool teacher worked to build authentic relationships with her students.

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Informational

Charles Henry Langston, Freedom Fighter

Charles Henry Langston was an early abolitionist in Ohio who risked his own safety and freedom to help another man escape slavery.

Lynne Peskoe-Yang

Grade Level

6-8

Topic

Slavery

Subject

History

January 7, 2019

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Literature

The Confederate Spy: A Story of the War of 1861

This is an excerpt from a work of fiction about the Civil War. It expresses a pro-Northern view while at the same time arguing that enslaved persons do not desire freedom.

R. H. (Robert Haskins) Crozier

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Slavery

Subject

History

December 15, 2017

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Appendix A: The Social Justice Standards

The Social Justice Standards are a road map for anti-bias education at every stage of K-12 instruction.

May 26, 2023

professional development

Grassroots Parent Organizing

Tips for using grassroots organizing to engage your school’s parents.

July 5, 2017

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Literature

Story Telling

In this poem, a mother tells her children the story of an enslaved mother and her beautiful daughter who is sold away.

Annie Parker

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Slavery

Subject

History

December 15, 2017

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