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March 14, 2012

Don’t Label a Book by Gender

In my eighth-grade language arts classroom, we use discussion as a vehicle for learning, thinking, writing, posing and defending arguments, questioning and reviewing—just about everything. And as can be expected, we sometimes digress from the topic at hand.

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

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July 25, 2017

“Holden Caulfield is a typical teenager”?

When this teacher’s classroom of white students identified The Catcher in the Rye protagonist Holden Caulfield as a “typical teenager,” she knew she needed to broaden their idea of what “typical” teenage problems look like.

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Class

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Issue 47, Summer 2014

Ed Café

Practices that honor student identities, build intergroup awareness and support diverse learning styles.

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Issue 34, Fall 2008

Making Sense of the Senseless: The Murder of Lawrence King

On Feb. 12, 2008, 15-year-old Lawrence King was shot twice in the head in front of other students, in Oxnard, Calif. What this anti-gay hate crime teaches us.

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

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Section IV: Family and Community Engagement

Being an ally to LGBTQ students means bringing people in and reaching out. With these tips, we hope you can create a community within and beyond the school that helps all families feel valued and helps all students feel

October 31, 2018

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October 14, 2014

Intervene With Mean - Part Two

Not all kids need the same inteventions. Check out part two of our three-part series for bullying interventions that focus on the 15 percent of students who need social skills training to stop bullying.

Topic

Bullying & Bias

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Issue 61, Spring 2019

Preserving a More Honest History

Want to take a field trip to a historic home or plantation? Here’s how to choose one that honors the enslaved people who lived and worked there.

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July 29, 2019

Trump Effect: Teaching Baltimore and the Power of Place

The places we call home can play a large part in the way we see ourselves—and the way others see us. The way you talk to your students about these places matters.

Topic

Rights & Activism

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Lee Anne Bell, Ed.D.

Lee Anne Bell, Ed.D., is the author of Storytelling for Social Justice, co-editor and author of Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice, and producer of 40 Years Later: Now Can We Talk?, a documentary film that focuses on the first class of Black students to desegregate a Mississippi high school, streamed at https://vimeo.com/537431634.

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Discovering My Identity

In this lesson, students will describe aspects of their identities such as race, gender, ability, religion and more. Then after exploring Marley Dias' Black Girls Books campaign, students will analyze book illustrations and write their own book review noting how characters are similar and different from them.

Grade Level

3-5

Topic

Ability Bullying & Bias

Subject

Reading & Language Arts

October 6, 2016

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