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Using Cell Phones to Bridge Gaps and Engage Youth
Maybe you’re thinking texting has no place in the classroom. This teacher found some practical applications.
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Toolkit for Raising Inequity
How does funding impact a day in the life of your students? Have them do the math!
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Toolkit for Doing History in Buncombe County
Students can learn about local struggles for justice through primary sources. This toolkit will help you collaborate with staff at a local library or archive to locate primary sources that teach your students about their community’s history.
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The First Coconut Tree
In this pourquoi tale, a mother living on one of the islands in the Pacific Islands, is mystified when she bears a round child with no arms and no legs, but she tenderly raises the child until one day he asks to be buried in the sand, where he can grow (into the first coconut tree) and every part of him can be useful.
January 5, 2015
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Teachers, Check Your Texts
LGBTQ Asian identities need to be amplified in the school curriculum—and not just during a heritage month.
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Fairness Fair
Students work in groups to role-play or tell stories about real life situations related to fairness, community, diversity or social justice themes. Students then perform their skits or stories for others as part of a class-wide “fairness fair.”
July 13, 2014
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Empathy for the 'A'
Teaching students to care isn’t just good for classroom culture—it’s good for learning.
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New Law Makes Lunchrooms Shame-Free Zones
New Mexico is leading the way in making school cafeterias more welcoming and equitable places.
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Toolkit for The Neuroscience of Culturally Responsive Pedagogy
Over the last 15 years, social science research has revealed several best practices for teaching social emotional skills. This toolkit provides a resource roundup of current research.
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Toolkit for "Rock the Vote"
This toolkit for “Rock the Vote” lists 12 practical ways teachers and their students can rock the vote at school.