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Accepting Change Because My Students Accepted First
After surviving a devastating car accident, this teacher realizes her true purpose in the classroom.
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Checking Yourself for Bias in the Classroom
Unconscious bias can shape the responses of even the most well-intentioned educators. But you can check yourself—one teacher shares how.
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Teach This: Regulating Protest at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
Analyze news of the recent announcement banning athlete protest at the Olympics to discuss protest and the power of individual voice with students.
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End Poverty. PERIOD.
Breanna and Brooke Bennett, student activists and founders of Women in Training, explain the impetus for their work to provide free menstrual products to all menstruating students.
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Appendix A: Suggested Anti-bias Strategies for Use With ELL Students
ELL instructors can adapt almost any lesson or activity to meet the needs of their students. Use this list of sample ELL-friendly strategies to spark creativity. Implement them alone, combine them or integrate them into
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Teachers Against Child Detention Book and Letter Drive
Estimated Time One week Why? Sharing a book they love helps students develop empathy. Articulating why the book is meaningful to them challenges students to communicate their thoughts and feelings in writing
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Understanding 'Brown' in the Context of Inclusive Education
May 17, 2024, marks the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, one of the most significant Supreme Court decisions and a major victory for the Civil Rights Movement. We must, however, resist the simplified narrative of the end of segregation and teach a more comprehensive story that includes analyzing Brown’s complex impact, the opposition to desegregation, and the ongoing movement for inclusive education.
- Connecting the ‘Brown’ Decision to Today’s Social Justice Movement
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Maribel Valdez Gonzalez explains why project-based learning is key to engaging, authentic, equitable education.
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Learning How to Know in 2017
How do your students learn how to know? And what does your teaching look like in the face of a devaluing of shared truth, deepening political polarization and the mainstreaming of intolerance?
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A Classroom Discussion About the Media, Trust and Knowledge
Encouraging students to think through problems in the contemporary media landscape can help them become more active, open-minded knowledge-seekers.