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Talking With Students About Ferguson and Racism
This teacher believes it’s crucial for white teachers like her to seek out productive ways to talk about race and racism with students.
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Defensive About Diversity Trainings
How do you respond to co-workers who do not recognize their own privileges? An after-school program staff member shares her experience.
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Reconsider Columbus Day
Teachers have the power to change the practice of celebrating Columbus to a practice of celebrating indigenous peoples’ presence, endurance and accomplishments. This blogger suggests how to do just that.
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Honoring Stories Across Difference
This educator asks, “How can I as a white ally amplify the voices of those affected by racial violence? How can I honor their stories?”
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Five Things to Know About ‘Perspectives’
Perspectives for a Diverse America just turned one year old! Here are five things you need to know about this curriculum.
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Exploring Why People Don’t Become Activists
This teacher uses activist memoirs and an engaging exercise to help her students overcome internal barriers to acting on their values.
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Toolkit for "The Young and the Registered"
Organizing and participating in a voter registration drive can be a powerful civics lesson for students. This toolkit lists suggestions on how you can help organize a student-led drive at your school.
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Seven Texts to Teach Instead of 'Ceremony'
What’s your go-to text by an indigenous author? This educator calls attention to the limitations of using only Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko, and offers a detailed list of suggested additional readings.
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Community Inquiry
Artifact Add-ons
Artifact Add-on asks students to select and share real-life objects that illustrate concepts and ideas from the central text.
July 13, 2014
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