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Building a Community of Upstanders: Planning
In the final installment of the three-part blog series, this Mix It Up coordinator shares how her school plans for the big event
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Going the Extra Mile for MLK Day
This fourth-grade teacher, a TT Award winner, offers some classroom suggestions to make Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day an opportunity for deep, personal engagement—not a day off.
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Toolkit for Making Space
This toolkit describes how affinity groups help marginalized students to be seen and heard, and provides step-by-step recommendations on how to launch an affinity group—or revamp one that already exists—at your school.
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Toolkit for Exposed
This toolkit outlines an activity that uses personal reflection, writing and class discussion to address cyberbullying.
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What We’re Reading
The latest in culturally aware literature and resources for teachers of all grades.
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Responding to the Read-Aloud Text
Challenge the Text
Challenge the Text helps students ask and answer their own text-dependent questions by taking multiple perspectives and uncovering assumptions and biases within the text.
July 19, 2014
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Close and Critical Reading
Agree/Disagree Statements
Agree/disagree statements challenge students to think critically about their knowledge of a topic, theme or text. The strategy exposes students to the major ideas in a text before reading—engaging their thinking and motivating them to learn more. It also requires them to reconsider their original thinking after reading the text and to use textual evidence to support and explain their thinking.
July 19, 2014
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Fight for Every Child
Connecting teachers and families is a high priority for Julia Zigarelli.
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What We’re Reading
Teaching Tolerance staff review the latest in culturally aware literature and resources, offering the best picks for professional development and teachers of all grades.