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Issue 46, Spring 2014

Toolkit for Picture Imperfect

Racial inequity, gender stereotypes and heternormity continue to dominate children’s books. This toolkit will help you assess your classroom library and make future selections that reflect a range of cultures, genders, immigration and socio-economic statuses, sexual orientations and family structures.

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December 22, 2014

Showing Students and Families You Care

In the event of a tragedy, teachers can make powerful connections with students and families by showing they care.

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Bullying & Bias

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Issue 59, Summer 2018

The Opioid Crisis

Addiction can suffocate a community—especially its youngest members. But schools that employ trauma-informed practices are giving childhood victims of the opioid epidemic a fighting chance.

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Protest Is Patriotic

This year, the Fourth of July arrives amid protests against racism and police brutality toward Black Americans and a focus on the role white supremacy has always played in the United States. As these resources show, this holiday and its symbols are tied to a long tradition of protest and demands that our nation make good on its promise of freedom for all.

Pledge Laws: Controlling Protest and Patriotism in Schools
What Is Your American Flag?
Celebrating Freedom Means Celebrating Defiance

June 30, 2020

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Civil Rights March in Selma

This news segment from 2000 recalls the march that took place in Selma, Ala. on March 7, 1965. This day, known as Bloody Sunday, was marked by violent attacks by state and local police upon protesters as they reached the end of Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge.

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6-8 9-12

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Rights & Activism

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Civics

History

July 2, 2014

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Remembering My Four Friends 50 Years Later

Glenn Ellis gives a personal account of the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, and remembers his four friends: Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Denise McNair.

Glenn Ellis

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9-12

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Civil Rights Movement Rights & Activism

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Civics

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November 18, 2014

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Nat Turner, Freedom Fighter

Nat Turner was an American freedom fighter who led one of history’s most successful revolts by enslaved people in Southampton County, VA.

Dorothy H. Price

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3-5

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Slavery

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History

January 8, 2019

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July 12, 2022

Responding to Children's Bereavement During the COVID-19 Pandemic

A teacher and a group of young students, all wearing masks, gather around in a half circle so they can look at images on an electronic tablet and listen during what appears to be story time.

With over 200,000 children experiencing the loss of a parent or caregiver during the COVID-19 pandemic, educators are becoming grief counselors.

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Rights & Activism

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June 27, 2016

In the Wake of Orlando: Helping Students Heal

TT’s Teaching and Learning Specialist Jarah Botello offers some classroom discussion prompts and activities that can help students process the horrific tragedy in Orlando and move toward healing.

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Gender & Sexual Identity Bullying & Bias

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September 22, 2015

Q&A: MTV’s Look Different Campaign

Here’s an inside scoop on Look Different, MTV’s innovative anti-bias campaign.

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Bullying & Bias

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