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Examining Stereotypes in Books
This lesson is intended to help guide children to respond to literature with an eye toward social justice.
July 10, 2017
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We Rest Our Case: American Slavery Is Widely Mistaught
After hearing from skeptics about our Teaching Hard History report findings, TT Director Maureen Costello came across striking new evidence that the project is necessary.
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Equity Work Should Start From the Top
Two former leaders of one of the nation’s largest school districts encourage their fellow school and district leaders to work for equity in their schools and share their expertise and recommendations.
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Sounds of Change
This lesson challenges students to analyze and to reflect on messages presented in songs — and to express their own views about important issues addressed in some songs.
April 26, 2017
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Trump Effect: Teaching Baltimore and the Power of Place
The places we call home can play a large part in the way we see ourselves—and the way others see us. The way you talk to your students about these places matters.
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Think There’s No Diversity? Think Again
A common misperception in many early childhood environments is the idea that, as one teacher told me, “There’s no diversity in my classroom.” She, and many others, think that a focus on diversity is unnecessary in an apparently homogeneous classroom.
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In this story, the parents of three children decide not to tell people the gender of the third child in an effort to avoid promoting stereotypes. Instead, they allow the child to be a person rather than a pretty girl who wears pink or a strong boy who wears blue.
July 9, 2014
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Catch Them Before They Fall
A Kentucky school district bucks the trend toward exclusionary discipline.
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What We’re Watching
Dim the lights and get ready to learn with these TT-approved films!