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Teaching and Affirming LGBTQ Youth after the ‘Bostock’ Decision
This summer’s landmark Supreme Court case made it illegal to fire someone based on their gender or sexuality. But ‘Bostock’ is a baseline, not a ceiling.
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Supporting All Learners Through Differentiation
Differentiated instruction honors differences between students and highlights diversity as a positive aspect of the learning process.
May 23, 2023
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Using Olympic Media to Teach About Intersectionality
The rhetoric used by this summer’s Olympic media has given educators many rich examples to introduce students to intersectionality.
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Dear Colleagues, You Need to Ensure Transgender Students’ Rights
A new directive on transgender students, issued today by the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice, applies to all public schools.
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Go Back to School, United
United Airlines made a major misstep this weekend, one that may be familiar to school administrators.
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Cooperative and Collaborative Learning
Effective collaborative learning requires planning to avoid existing racial, gender, socio-economic, linguistic, academic or other divisions within the classroom.
May 23, 2023
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Social Justice-Based Assessment, Evaluation and Grading
The strategies in this section emphasize and encourage collaboration, authentic engagement and equal opportunity for all students.
May 23, 2023
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STEM by the Numbers
In this lesson, students use data to analyze the participation of white, black, Asian and Hispanic men and women in STEM careers as compared with their participation in the general workforce. They then discuss the possible reasons identity groups are unequally represented in STEM careers.
April 19, 2016
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Why I Teach: Learning What Courage Means
My first year of teaching in middle school was an onslaught of reading quizzes, vocabulary lists, lunch duty, reading skills and faculty meetings. It didn’t really leave a great deal of time for reflection other than the simple thought that I wasn’t quite living up to my ideal of changing the world through teaching.
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The Courage to Speak Up
I didn’t say a word. I never saw myself as a person to let a homophobic comment slide. Even from another adult. Even from someone with more power than me in the hierarchy of the school structure. But that day, in that conversation, I just let it go.