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Student Voices Are Clear. Listen.
Our schools are critical tools for helping newly arrived immigrant students adjust to their new homes. What’s the best way to know how to help? Listen.
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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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Let Black Students Be Kids: Down With 'Respectability'
We need to push back against the message that students’ intelligence and appearances are related.
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Working for the Common Good
One way to encourage young people to be concerned about the common good is to teach them about “the commons.”
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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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"It's Time to Pick Up Where Dr. King Left Off"
Michael Dunn, a white male, shot and killed Jordan Davis, an unarmed African-American male, while Davis was in a parked vehicle at a gas station. This segment from 3 1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets profiles various perspectives regarding the role that race played in the killing.
August 19, 2016
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Film Festival
Students review films related to a theme in the central text, then plan, prepare for and host a community film festival.
July 13, 2014
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Giving Students Room to Run
Read this installment of the "Why I Teach" series.
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And the WINNERS are …
The 2012 Teaching Tolerance Award for Excellence in Culturally Responsive Teaching