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Labor Matters
Draw on your students' prior knowledge to help them understand the importance of the labor movement.
July 6, 2009
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The Only One
When you’re the only person of color in your class, school can become a struggle between two worlds.
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Imagining Alternative Futures Through Futurist Pedagogy
As educators, we must push past the call to “prepare students for the future.” This approach is insufficient and ultimately hazardous.
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Caring as a Path to College
An initiative to revamp college admissions criteria presents an opportunity for K-12 educators to highlight academic achievement and caring for others at the same time.
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Empathy: The Antidote to Bullying
If we look into the heart of bullying, what we often find are deficits of emotional control and empathy. Teaching mindfulness can help.
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Trivia and Civil Rights History
An after-school teacher uses trivia to get her elementary students thinking about the world around them—including civil rights history.
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Making “A Place in the Middle” in Every Classroom
Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Dean Hamer shares how his documentary A Place in the Middle, co-directed with Joe Wilson, can help students see the value of inclusion, the power of cultural heritage and their ability to create a more positive school climate.
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What Would You Do?
The TT audience weighed in on a school dilemma ripped from the headlines: ‘Students petition to display Confederate flag at school, turn in 300 signatures.’
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Ain’t I a Woman?
Sojourner Truth delivered this speech at the 1851 Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. Born into slavery, Truth is widely known for her abolition and women’s rights work. Two versions of this speech are included.
July 2, 2014