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Issue 6, Fall 2024

Child Hunger Should Concern Us All

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Ensuring food security for all children is a national responsibility that should cut across political divides.

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Maggie Messitt

Maggie Messitt is an American writer and editor focused on narrative and immersion journalism in middle America & southern Africa. She lived in rural Africa for more than six years and split her life between two continents for two more. She returned to the US as a full-time resident in early 2011. Maggie currently resides in Athens, OH, where she's a doctoral fellow in Creative Writing at Ohio University. When she's not teaching or working on her next manuscript, she continues to write/report for regional and national publications. Maggie lived in Limpopo, South Africa, from 2003-2011 (6yrs

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Issue 59, Summer 2018

(In)Visible Identity

Invisibly Identity Illustrated by Vish Singh | TT59 Summer 2018 Magazine

Sikhs have been in the United States for more than 125 years, but our collective lack of knowledge about this religious group is leaving Sikh students vulnerable.

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Issue 60, Fall 2018

TT’s NEW LGBTQ Best Practices Guide

We’ve learned a lot in the last few years about what LGBTQ students need to thrive. This excerpt from our new guide offers insight into how even small policy adjustments can make a big difference in the lives of queer and nonbinary students.

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Gender & Sexual Identity

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September 6, 2019

What We’re Reading This Week: September 6, 2019

A weekly sampling of articles, blogs and reports relevant to TT educators.

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Issue 1, Fall 2021

Learning Virtually Redefined

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When the pandemic halted in-person professional learning, facilitators and trainers began imagining a new world.

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Introduction to the Teacher’s Guide

Teaching 'The New Jim Crow' Introduction to the Teacher's Guide In many ways, this is a dream come true. I have long hoped that a set of materials would be created that would support high school teachers who want to

July 6, 2017

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On Emancipation Day in D.C., Two Memorials Tell Very Different Stories

Two memorials have been built in commemoration of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation-one in 1896 and 1998. And while they both pay tribute to the same event, they depict the African Americans within them in very different lights.

Joe Heim

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9-12

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Class

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Civics

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July 16, 2018

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Issue 60, Fall 2018

Imagining a World Without White Supremacy

Meet two innovative educators who help students face their communities’ painful histories and envision brighter futures.

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March 6, 2018

Broken and Healing: Normalizing Mental Health Issues in Our Classrooms

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If we want our students to feel safe and accepting of their own mental health issues, can we model that by being open ourselves?

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Ability Bullying & Bias

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