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Summer Planning Essentials
Thinking ahead to next school year? Incorporate these suggestions into your planning.
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Understanding How Digital Information Comes to You
In this lesson, students will learn how different search engines work.
October 2, 2017
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The Social Justice Standards
The Social Justice Standards allow educators to use backward design when planning lessons and provide a framework for discussing social justice topics at every stage of K-12 instruction. Get to know the anchor standards, grade-level outcomes and the four domains of anti-bias teaching and learning—Identity, Diversity, Justice and Action—with the resources in this edition of The Moment.
- Lead Your Own Training: The Social Justice Standards
- Social Justice Standards
- Teaching MLK With the Social Justice Standards
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Online Teaching Can Be Culturally Responsive
Amid school closures, online classes can offer new opportunities for culturally responsive teaching. Here’s what one educator is trying with her fifth grade students.
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Privacy and Security Online
Students will discuss basic guidelines for maintaining privacy and security online. To help them internalize these rules, students will illustrate what it would mean to follow each guideline.
September 25, 2017
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National Voter Registration Day: September 25
September 25 is National Voter Registration Day! We celebrate all educators who help students identify as voters and who encourage eligible voters in their communities to get to the polls. This edition of The Moment pulls together some of our favorite Voting and Voices resources—including Democracy Class, a set of brand-new, classroom-ready lesson plans from TT and Rock the Vote.
- Democracy Class Offers New Lesson Plans About Voting
- Register Voters
- Five Myths About Voting
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Toolkit for "Expelling Islamophobia"
This toolkit for “Expelling Islamophobia” outlines a six-step lesson plan using the short film American Muslims: Facts vs. Fiction. The purpose is to foster all students’ religious literacy and improve school climate for Muslim students and other vulnerable student groups.
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Desired Things for a Better World
A number of years ago, I asked my ninth-grade English students to make a bucket list of at least three things they’d like to do before they die. Examples of what they wrote down include “riding a motorcycle,” “becoming a
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The Color of Law: Creating Racially Segregated Communities
This lesson is the first lesson of the series The Color of Law: The Role of Government in Shaping Racial Inequity. In this lesson, students examine the local, state and federal policies that supported racially discriminatory practices and cultivated racially segregated housing.
October 9, 2019
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Creating Unity at Lawndale
As you know, many schools in Los Angeles have dealt with racial tensions, race riots, and violence on campus stemming from issues of race and misunderstanding.