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Melea Has Two Dads – And That’s Not a Problem
Melea hates school. She is 4 years old and was adopted at birth by two gay men. Her dads (Mark and Sam) are Caucasian and Melea is African American-Latino.
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Teach This: When Is a Repeal Really a Repeal?
Today, the North Carolina legislature debates what’s being called a repeal of the controversial “bathroom bill.” But is it really a repeal? Explore this question with your students.
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The Case of the Missing Women
I held up the front page of our college newspaper and asked my first-year journalism students if any questions came to mind as they looked at the photographs of candidates running for president and vice president of our student government. It’s a multimedia storytelling class and the assignments for the week were about analyzing and taking photographs.
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Reading Between the Lines
Teachers don’t want to be called saints or soldiers. Let’s mark Teacher Appreciation Week with a commitment to go beyond the rhetoric and speak accurately about teaching as a profession.
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The Ripple Effect
Meet the people behind YCteen, a youth-written magazine inspiring educators throughout New York City.
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Nativism and the Know-Nothings
In this essay, the author describes the Nativism movement, capturing the ways in which it dips and surges based on immigration cycles.
June 20, 2016
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Community Inquiry
What Would They Say
A discussion strategy that asks students to infer how a particular author or character from a text would respond to questions and scenarios. Students must defend their conclusions using evidence from the text.
July 13, 2014
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Broken and Healing: Normalizing Mental Health Issues in Our Classrooms
If we want our students to feel safe and accepting of their own mental health issues, can we model that by being open ourselves?
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This Work Isn't Radical
In Minnesota, yet another group is organizing backlash against equitable teaching practices. It's an all-too-common threat—and a reminder that educators need more support.
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Curbing floods and restoring a sense of community
“English Avenue, an historic African-American neighborhood with an illustrious past, sits at the bottom of Atlanta’s water runoff. Blighted by regular flooding, mass vacancies, unemployment, and impoverishment, English Avenue finds hope in a home-grown response from its youth. Longtime resident MacKenzie Bass — along with fellow members of Street Smart — helped construct a park that curbs the excess water, creates a gathering place, and seeks to reclaim English Avenue’s identity.”
June 26, 2019