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Advocating for Teaching Honest History: What Educators Can Do

Young people deserve to learn honest history—history that is accurate, comprehensive and inclusive of perspectives beyond traditional, dominant narratives. Our newest resource guide, Advocating for Teaching Honest History: What Educators Can Do, offers concrete tools for educators seeking to ensure the right of future generations to an accurate accounting of our nation’s history.

  • Advocating for Teaching Honest History: What Educators Can Do
  • Teaching the Civil Rights Movement
  • Teaching Hard History: American Slavery
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Common Ground

A young person plants a tree.
Research tells us that children’s engagement with natural environments offers a host of benefits. Schools can capitalize on this knowledge.
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Susan McQuaid

Susan has been teaching in public school settings for over 30 years. For the past 15 years, she has been a teacher/librarian for the Amherst Public Schools in Massachusetts. She has also taught preschool, kindergarten and first grade in schools in Minnesota and Massachusetts.
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The Silencing of Mary Dyer

In this chapter, Carnes details oppression experienced by the early New England colonists. In particular, he chronicles Mary Dyer’s path from a once uncomfortably conforming Puritan to an outspoken Quaker unshaken by threats, banishment and even death.
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Jim Carnes
Grade Level
9-12
Topic
Religion Immigration Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism
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History
Social Justice Domain
Identity Diversity Justice Action
January 23, 2017
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Lift-Ups Instead of Put-Downs

We know cliques are common in the middle grades, but don’t forget how prevalent they are in the elementary years. Here’s how one educator helped her young students understand that inclusion isn’t just “nice”—it’s fun, too!
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Bullying & Bias