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Toolkit for A Letter to My Teenage Self
Editor’s note: The author of this essay prefers the pronoun they. In a poignant letter to their teenage self, Jey Ehrenhalt—a transgender educator and advocate—recalls jarring and painful experiences of their youth and describes how many schools urgently need to become more welcoming and supportive places for transgender students.
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Getting the Civil War Right
Did America’s most divisive war start over slavery or states’ rights? Too many educators get it wrong.
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Suspending Hope
Schools in Maryland and Connecticut are rethinking suspension policies and practices.
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Peggy McIntosh: Beyond the Knapsack
Learn how Serial Testimony places the emphasis on student experience.
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Learning From the Inside
Educators working in locked facilities have a lot to offer—to their students and to their public-school colleagues.
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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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In Defense of Caring About Difference
Many educators profess, as a virtue, that they treat all students the same. But when a student’s specific needs and story are erased, it’s not equitable—it’s damaging.
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Choosing Reliable Sources
This lesson, part of the Digital Literacy series, addresses the importance of locating and verifying reliable sources when working with online information. This lesson is aimed at a young audience and operates on the assumption that many students in the class are not yet reading and writing independently.
September 11, 2017
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A Chorus of Reasons Why We Teach
“Under these conditions, why would teachers teach? Here are some of our reasons.” The dedicated teachers and staff at a Jackson, Mississippi, elementary school share what keeps them committed to teaching.