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Teaching About Identity in Spanish Class
Spanish classes are the perfect place to help students develop cultural competence.
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What We’re Reading This Week: February 1, 2019
A weekly sampling of articles, blogs and reports relevant to TT educators.
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What We’re Reading This Week: May 3, 2019
A weekly sampling of articles, blogs and reports relevant to TT educators.
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What We’re Reading This Week: June 21, 2019
A weekly sampling of articles, blogs and reports relevant to TT educators.
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What We’re Reading This Week: November 1, 2019
A weekly sampling of articles, blogs and reports relevant to TT educators.
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Educators and Their #Community: Finding Solidarity on Social Media
How social justice educators are using social media to find support, a platform and PD.
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Beyond Rosa Parks: Powerful Voices for Civil Rights and Social Justice
Most history textbooks include a section about Rosa Parks in the chapter on the modern civil rights movement. However, Parks is only one among many African-American women who have worked for equal rights and social justice. This series introduces four of those activists who may be unfamiliar to students.
May 3, 2012
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Getting Educated About Homeless Students
For 20 nights, Kate has collapsed onto a different air mattress in a new space, a strange place—none of them home. The 15-year-old, her parents and two younger brothers cart themselves and their meager possessions from shelter to shelter.
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Representative Lewis Discusses Reenacting Historic Bus Rides of 1961 Video Transcript
This piece is to accompany The Freedom RidersForty years ago, a dozen or so friends decided to test a new ruling that banned the forced separation of whites and blacks in interstate travel. They became known as Freedom Riders, and they paved the way for the civil rights struggle. John Lewis joined the original rides. He is now a Congressman from Georgia. Well, today they're retracing their steps from the spring of '61.
April 5, 2011
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Investigating Gender Expression
Some students struggle to see gender stereotypes, but telling personal stories can open their eyes.