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teaching strategy

Word Work

Meaning-Making Paragraphs

Students learn the meaning of vocabulary words by writing the word in multiple ways. Students write guided paragraphs about words from the central text then share their writing with peers.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

CCSS

L.6-12.5, L.6-12.6

July 19, 2014

text

Informational

Medgar Evers

This essay details Medgar Evers’ involvement in the civil rights movement as a pivotal member of the Mississippi NAACP. It also addresses his tragic murder at the hands of a White Citizens Council member.

by

Learning for Justice Staff

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement Rights & Activism

Subject

Civics

History

Geography

March 2, 2016

article

July 8, 2016

Here We Go Again

What can we say to our kids after a week like this one?

article

December 7, 2018

What We’re Reading This Week: December 7, 2018

A weekly sampling of articles, blogs and reports relevant to TT educators.

article

Issue 12, Fall 1997

Nations Within

American Indian scholar Karen Gayton Swisher envisions effective education for all Indian children.

article

January 3, 2020

Looking Back and Pressing Forward

Teaching Tolerance collage of images

As Teaching Tolerance reflects on the last decade, we are reminded that the work continues.

article

Issue 43, Spring 2013

You Spoke, We Listened

Readers talk yoga, invisible disabilities and Title IX.

article

May 30, 2018

Learning When to Listen

Hush | Learning When to Listen

One teacher explains the value of knowing when to identify with your students when they tell you about their lives—and when to be quiet and listen.

Topic

Religion Ability Class Immigration Gender & Sexual Identity

article

Issue 57, Fall 2017

What Is the “Alt-Right”?

What Is the Alt Right? illustration

White nationalism has come out of the basement and entered the mainstream. Would you recognize it if it came to your classroom?

Topic

Immigration Rights & Activism

text

Informational

Sherman’s Special Field Order, No. 15

Sherman’s Order is the source of the phrase, “forty acres and a mule,” a believed promise for land redistribution to former enslaved people.

by

General William T. Sherman

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Slavery

Subject

History

January 9, 2018