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Issue 45, Fall 2013

Toolkit for “Twice the Distance”

According to the College Board, “There are three main areas on the path to higher education where undocumented students may have special concerns or face obstacles: admission, tuition and financial aid.” These resources

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October 3, 2014

Mix It Loud, Mix It Proud

Don’t keep your awesome Mix event confined to the school walls. Spread the word!

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Word Work

Prior Knowledge and Personal Association Surveys

These surveys ask students what they know or how they feel about specific words in the text they are reading.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

July 19, 2014

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Write to the Source

Fact or Opinion

Fact or Opinion asks students to demonstrate their explanatory and analytical writing skills.

Grade Level

3-5

CCSS

W.3.2, W.4.2, W.5.2, W.3.4, W.4.4, W.5.4, W.4.9, W.5.9

July 19, 2014

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Issue 27, Spring 2005

A Dream We All Can Share

How parents can teach kids that all history counts.

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April 10, 2014

Imagining Equity Literacy

Equity literacy moves us beyond cultural competency, allowing educators to create and sustain equitable and just learning environments for all families and students.

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April 1, 2015

Three Tips for Current-Event Lesson Plans

Do you ever struggle to create a quick lesson about a current event? This teacher offers strategies to do it well.

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Parallels Between Mass Incarceration and Jim Crow

What are the most salient similarities between mass incarceration and Jim Crow? Mass incarceration is a system of racialized social control that, like slavery and Jim Crow before it, operates to discriminate and create a stigmatized racial group locked into an inferior position by law and custom.

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Class Rights & Activism

Subject

Social Studies

Civics

History

October 14, 2014

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Issue 13, Spring 1998

An Unconditional Embrace

For education activist Bill Ayers, the secret of effective teaching is to see each child as one's own.

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Rights & Activism

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Informational

No Promised Land

“When Mormons settled in Missouri in the 1830s, local residents found Mormon beliefs and practices not simply strange, but wrong. … The Mormons, the Missouri governor declared, must be removed—if not by expulsion, then by extermination.”

Jim Carnes

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Religion Rights & Activism

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Civics

History

May 22, 2017

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