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Giving Students Room to Run
Read this installment of the "Why I Teach" series.
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The Promise of Building Bridges
The UCLA Dialogue Across Difference Initiative offers a model to foster a culture of meaningful exchange, empathy and critical thinking in education and communities.
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Discussing Congressional Investigations of January 6
Your students may have some questions as a congressional committee investigates the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. These resources can help you facilitate critical conversations and provide historical context.
- Teaching the Historical Context of January 6
- Leading Conversations After Crisis
- Let's Talk!
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The Election, One Year Later: Struggling With Critical Conversations at a Midwestern High School
In the fall of 2016, anthropologist Jia-Hui Stefanie Wong was observing students and educators at a high school when the presidential election took place. This winter, she followed up to see what had changed in the last year.
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“All Our Terrible and Beautiful History”: Teach American History as a Human Story
Professor David W. Blight, director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, explains why prevailing American historical narratives necessitate Teaching Tolerance's Teaching Hard History report and recommendations.
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The Day of Mass Removal: Kara Kondo
Kara Kondo: I can always picture [the scene]. The sun was setting and the crowd was gathering where the people — some of your friends — and there were hundreds of people there. Some were there to say goodbye, others came
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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
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Best Practices for Serving English Language Learners and Their Families
Are you looking for culturally responsive ways to support English language learners? Based on our recently updated ELL best practices guide, this webinar presents specific tools and strategies for supporting ELLs in instruction, family engagement, classroom culture and school policies.
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Miami by Fujian
Mariel visits her birthplace in China with her adopted parents. Although she struggles to fit in at times in her school in Miami, visiting her old orphanage helps her learn about where she comes from and opens her eyes to how lucky she is.
November 30, 2017
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Gillette’s New Ad Asks: “Is Toxic Masculinity the Best a Man Can Get?”
A new ad has everyone talking about gender norms. Here’s how you can bring that conversation to your students.