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Teaching About Mass Incarceration: From Conversation to Civic Action
How one teacher uses the study of mass incarceration to help students learn about civic action and see themselves as change makers.
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What We’re Reading This Week: August 9, 2019
A weekly sampling of articles, blogs and reports relevant to TT educators.
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Teaching Hard History: American Slavery | Classroom Videos
In these short videos, historians and scholars explore the undertaught history of African and Indigenous enslavement in what is now the United States. (Available for streaming only)
April 22, 2020
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A Quick Reference Guide to Teaching Hard History
[2022] LFJ's framework for teaching about American slavery can be used to supplement current curriculum or to guide the creation of new curriculum that more honestly and courageously tells the story of American slavery.
July 6, 2022
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Discussing "The Mental Health Issue" After Parkland
When talking with students about mass shootings, you can't avoid addressing mental health. This TT staffer offers recommendations for ways you can talk about mental health with your students—without adding to the stigma already in place.
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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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Bringing 9/11 Into the Classroom—10 Years Later
My son was a 16-year-old high school junior on 9/11/2001. He could see the twin towers burning a few miles across the harbor from his school in Staten Island, N.Y. Across the country, other students watched the images on television, either as they were happening or later, as they looped endlessly on cable news.
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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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Bound for Sainthood
This excerpt accompanies the Teaching Tolerance lesson "Pauli Murray: Fighting Jane and Jim Crow."