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September 17, 2013

Welcome Home

For students living in instability, a safe classroom becomes a second home.

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Clint Smith is a Ph.D. candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the author of the poetry collection Counting Descent (Write Bloody Publishing, 2016). His essays, poems and scholarly writing have appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, the Atlantic, the Harvard Educational Review and elsewhere.

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September 8, 2014

Brain Game Time!

Game time is being cut in exchange for increased direct instruction time in reading and mathematics. But research shows that games actually nourish the brain—and one teacher uses them daily in her classroom.

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October 7, 2014

"Playing Teacher" Gets in the Way of Teaching

Have you ever found yourself reverting to a “teacher voice” like this blogger? Read how she uses cognitive defusion to help refocus her teaching on her values.

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Issue 66, Spring 2021

Toolkit for “Mathematics in Context: The Pedagogy of Liberation”

This toolkit will help educators consider how to “humanize math” using Learning for Justice’s Social Justice Standards. It provides opportunities for reflection and examples of real-world applications.

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Issue 65, Fall 2020

This Conversation Is Anti-Racist

Illustration of four people hanging out together.

Young people have the vision to imagine—and create—a world without racism. Adults just need to get on board.

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May 23, 2016

Walking in Their “Zapatos”

After spending a day observing two master language teachers, this teacher mentor and his mentee learned some valuable lessons about inclusion.

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September 19, 2016

Want to Teach Civility? Start With Intellectual Safety.

As the current election cycle reaches its climax, establishing “intellectually safe” communities of inquiry can help mitigate the negative effects the campaign has had on children and classrooms.

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Bullying & Bias