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Three Tips for Current-Event Lesson Plans
Do you ever struggle to create a quick lesson about a current event? This teacher offers strategies to do it well.
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Searching for Strategies
In her constant search for strategies for students, this teacher found that basket weaving helped her students improve focus and concentration.
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Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments
In his anonymous protest of a bill that would institute taxation for established religion, James Madison asserts the necessary separation of church and state and the right of every person to practice religion freely.
June 11, 2015
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Exploring Texts Through Read Alouds
Realia
Realia are real-life objects that enable children to make connections to their own lives as they try to make sense of new concepts and ideas. This strategy brings the Perspectives central text to life for students by using everyday objects during the read aloud.
July 13, 2014
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Do Something
Community Spotlight Cards
Students create “trading cards” spotlighting diverse community members who work toward social justice goals that connect to themes from the central text.
July 13, 2014
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'They're Playing Indians.'
How to talk to kids about stereotypes on television. A take-home lesson for students' families.
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Dear President-elect Trump
Three recipients of the 2016 Teaching Tolerance Award for Excellence in Teaching have an urgent message for President-elect Trump.
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The Zero Effect
As teachers, it is our job to set kids up to succeed, not to fail. Changing some of our grading practices is a good place to start.
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Diverting the Pipeline Happens in Shifts
The Departments of Education and Justice have taken steps to help schools divert the school-to-prison pipeline. How will your school respond?
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Recognizing and Addressing Colorism in Schools
This educator and researcher illustrates what colorism looks like in schools—and how to counter it.