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March 3, 2020

Teach This: America’s Presidential Primaries, Explained

Use this video to introduce your students to the history of presidential primaries and to spark a discussion about the role of primaries today.

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 5, Fall 2023

The Kids Are All Right

Tulsa teacher Akela Leach helps her school district implement new lessons about their city’s painful history.

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Issue 2, Spring 2022

Teaching Local History in Tulsa

Illustration of students reading in class.

The history of the Tulsa Race Massacre was buried for 100 years. Teachers are trying to change that.

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Issue 40, Fall 2011

This piece is to accompany the Teaching Tolerance article "Getting the Civil War Right." Some historians have called the period of Reconstruction that followed the Civil War the "second American Revolution" and the 13th

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Issue 65, Fall 2020

What We’re Watching

Dim the lights and get ready to learn with these TT-approved films!

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Issue 4, Spring 2023

Survival, Resistance and Resilience

Honoring the lives of enslaved people, the Whitney Plantation’s learning tour deepens our understanding of slavery in the United States, the people who survived it and their legacies.

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Understanding and Evaluating Online Searches

In the age of Google and other search engines, this lesson aims to help students navigate how information comes to them through online search tools.

Grade Level

6-8

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Digital Literacy

Reading & Language Arts

Social Studies

ELL / ESL

Math & Technology

September 26, 2017

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Meredith Gavrin

Along with her husband, Greg Baldwin, Meredith co-founded New Haven Academy, a public, interdistrict magnet high school in New Haven, Connecticut, in 2003. The school was one of the first members of Facing History’s Innovative Schools Network (now Partner Schools Network), and Gavrin has served on the advisory board of the network for the last several years. She received her bachelor’s degree at Princeton University and her M.Ed. at Harvard University and has worked in education for more than 25 years. Gavrin is also the proud parent of three children: Elijah, Caleb and Mia.

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Issue 58, Spring 2018