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Valentine Road Spotlights TT Issues
HBO premieres a new documentary about the murder of a transgender youth and the community that survived him.
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A Student’s Take on Sugar-coated History
This Black Alabama teen and her family had to fill the gaps in her education at home. Here’s her advice to teachers.
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Word Work
Vocabulary Rounds
This contextual redefinition strategy encourages students to use the structure and context of words to predict their meanings. Students arrive at the definition through exposure to increasingly rich clues.
July 19, 2014
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April 16, 2018
"We Have to Start Having These Conversations"
TT Educator Grants support social justice at the classroom, school and district levels. TT's grants manager spoke with grantee Jenny Finn about her project helping her Appalachian students explore racism and white privilege close to home.
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Engendering Inclusivity in a Language Class
Language classrooms allow students to grapple with how gender affects their understanding of the world, but they also allow teachers to engender their own classrooms as inclusive and safe places for all students.
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Stories Can Offer Affirming Models of Love and Acceptance
This holiday season, share stories with children that deepen our values and celebrate our shared humanity. “Fireflies,” our newest children’s story about family, love and identity, gives children affirming messages and offers a model to adults on responding to a child questioning their sexual orientation or gender identity. When 10-year-old Kaden wonders whether he’s gay, he turns to his older brother Zain, who offers the love and acceptance all caring adults should give to a child.
- Fireflies
- Growing Together: For Children and Families
- Amanda Gorman
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Confronting Students’ Islamophobia
What do you do when anti-bias teaching strategies are derailed by real, in-the-moment fears? See how one educator responded to Islamophobia in her classroom.
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Raising Inequity
Fundraising has become standard for most schools—but an education system that relies on private donations will never be equitable.
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Toolkit for "A New Frame of Mind"
This toolkit for "A New Frame of Mind" provides a curated list of resources—authors, experts, websites—related to autism and the neurodiversity movement.
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Women’s Suffrage
This lesson is the fourth in a series called Expanding Voting Rights. The overall goal of the series is for students to explore the complicated history of voting rights in the United States. Two characteristics of that history stand out: First, in fits and starts, more and more Americans have gained the right to vote. Second, over time, the federal government's role in securing these rights has expanded considerably.
February 10, 2014