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Common Ground
Research tells us that children’s engagement with natural environments offers a host of benefits. Schools can capitalize on this knowledge.
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How Do I Teach What I Don’t Know?
After regretting her response to a student’s body-image concerns, this teacher plans to use her own body struggles to offer a stronger response next time.
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What Issues Inspire You?
We need to look around our schools and communities with an eye towards equity. And—like our predecessors—we need to find the courage to take a stand together when we see it.
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Lift-Ups Instead of Put-Downs
We know cliques are common in the middle grades, but don’t forget how prevalent they are in the elementary years. Here’s how one educator helped her young students understand that inclusion isn’t just “nice”—it’s fun, too!
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We All Have Gifts to Offer
There’s more for your students than meets the eye in Leo Lionni’s classic children’s book Frederick.
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Mama Played Baseball
With her husband away fighting in World War II, Amy's mother gets a job playing baseball in the first professional women's league.
July 7, 2014
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Hijas Americanas: Beauty, Body Image, and Growing Up Latina
Rosie Molinary describes how she felt as a Latina teenager in the United States, caught between disparate and unrealistic beauty standards.
December 30, 2015
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Reflecting on the 2016-17 School Year
What would you say to your beginning-of-the-school-year self? We asked our advisory board this very question.
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My Life in the Shadows
Brought to the United States illegally from Mexico as a child, Reyna Wences has stepped forward to make the case for immigration reform.
July 7, 2014