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The Ripple Effect
Meet the people behind YCteen, a youth-written magazine inspiring educators throughout New York City.
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What We’re Watching
From full-length features to 10-minute shorts, these films caught our attention—and deserve yours.
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Informational
Nativism and the Know-Nothings
In this essay, the author describes the Nativism movement, capturing the ways in which it dips and surges based on immigration cycles.
June 20, 2016
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Secret Audiotapes of JFK Decrying Civil Rights Violations in Birmingham
This 2005 news segment reports on a recently discovered recording from 1963, in which Kennedy responded to news of police violence against civil rights demonstrators in Birmingham, Alabama.
July 2, 2014
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Community Inquiry
What Would They Say
A discussion strategy that asks students to infer how a particular author or character from a text would respond to questions and scenarios. Students must defend their conclusions using evidence from the text.
July 13, 2014
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Crocodile and Ghost Bat Have a Hullabaloo: An Australian Tale of Name-Calling
Although carefully planned at twilight so all animals can attend, things go terribly wrong during this walkabout. The group creates such a terrible hullabaloo that Namarrkun, the lightning man, is forced to show his strength.
July 2, 2014
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Do Something
Identity Artifacts Museum
Students create a display of artifacts to represent aspects of their identities.
July 13, 2014
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Close and Critical Reading
Agree/Disagree Statements
Agree/disagree statements challenge students to think critically about their knowledge of a topic, theme or text. The strategy exposes students to the major ideas in a text before reading—engaging their thinking and motivating them to learn more. It also requires them to reconsider their original thinking after reading the text and to use textual evidence to support and explain their thinking.
July 19, 2014
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Close and Critical Reading
Thinking Notes
Thinking notes are text annotations (highlights, underlines or symbols made on the text or in the margins) that document student thinking during reading. Depending on how you structure the task, these notes can indicate agreement, objection, confusion or other relevant reactions to the text.
July 19, 2014
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