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August 25, 2020

Teach This: Voter Registration in a Time of Pandemic and Protests

Illustration of a teacher figure pointing to a slide featured on a pulled down screen that is titled "Voting History." Several shadowed figures sit in the foreground, looking at the displayed information.

Use the video, articles, census data and original research in this discussion guide to talk with students about youth voter registration and turnout in this unprecedented election season.

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 26, Fall 2004

Reef For All

This reflection accompanies the feature story " Voices of Columbine." Columbine High School English teacher Jason Webb took an uncommon approach in coping with emotional repercussions following the 1999 tragedy. "Shortly

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 60, Fall 2018

Five Myths About Voting

Illustrated hands placing ballots in boxes

Prepare your students to bust five common voting myths with this free classroom poster!

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Rights & Activism

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September 27, 2018

How My Third-Graders and I Address Consent

Group of students and teacher sitting near blackboard having a discussion.

A TT Award winner shares how she teaches her elementary students about consent throughout the year. It’s not too early—or too late—to start.

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 26, Fall 2004

"There's No Lesson Plan for Tragedy"

Teaching in the face of the unthinkable.

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 47, Summer 2014

An Educator’s Guide to the Immigration Debate

What you need to know to facilitate classroom conversation about this controversial topic.

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Immigration

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July 9, 2015

Planting Truthful Seeds About Native Americans

By not including contemporary Native peoples into any discussion of Native experiences, we are doing these populations and our students a huge disservice.

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Rights & Activism

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Sonia Nieto

Sonia Nieto is Professor Emerita of Language, Literacy, and Culture, School of Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Starting as a teacher at P.S. 25 in the Bronx (the first fully bilingual school in the Northeast) Nieto has taught students at all levels from elementary grades through graduate school, and she continues to speak and write on multicultural education, teacher preparation, and the education of Latinos and other culturally and linguistically diverse student populations. Her book Affirming Diversity: The Sociopolitical Context of Multicultural Education, is widely used in

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Gay Marriage

"Wrong Side of History" photo shoot shows people throughout history who voted against freeing slaves, women voting and interracial marriage. The photographer says, "Next," and there is an empty seat for someone with a speech bubble that says, "I voted against marriage equality."

This cartoon shows a legislator who voted against marriage equality as part of a series of legislators photographed for a “wrong-side-of-history photo shoot.”

Steve Sack

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6-8 9-12

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Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism

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Civics

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November 3, 2014

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Literature

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.

Jeff Sapp

Grade Level

K-2 3-5

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Bullying & Bias

July 2, 2014

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