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We Need the Lessons of Reconstruction
Now, more than ever, the teaching of Reconstruction needs to be a central component of history education in high school.
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Do Something
Be the Change...
Students identify and investigate a community problem and propose a solution. They then plan and implement action directed at solving the problem.
July 13, 2014
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When Empathy Is Paramount
Putting empathy into action is a daily calling for Kelly Wickham Hurst.
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When Language Intersects with Race and Culture
The room was quiet. In our staff development session, we had just watched a short video about the best way to instruct our students in speaking Standard English. The teacher in the video explained to her students that they would be practicing the “language of the job interview.” My school director asked, “How did people feel about that?”
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Identities
This piece accompanies Social Justice Standards: Unpacking Identity
April 17, 2014
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Toolkit for A Conversation with Michelle Alexander
Michelle Alexander wrote The New Jim Crow to start conversations about race and mass incarceration in the United States. This toolkit develops student vocabulary about these themes and challenges them to create interview questions for another author who writes about social justice.
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Do Something
Collage of Concerns
Students create visual artwork combining various images to convey diversity or social justice issues, concerns or themes related to the central text.
July 13, 2014
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Advice From the Experts
TT answers your tough questions. This time, we talk “hidden curriculum” and responsive school discipline.
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In Plain Sight: Special Education Outcomes and Challenges in Mississippi
[2024] This report provides an in-depth assessment of the challenges and inequities in the special education system and how they adversely affect the educational rights of disabled children in Mississippi.
October 18, 2024