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“The Story of How I Teach Needed to Be Told”: Advice for TT Award Applicants From Winners
Past TT Award winners explain how the application process and the honor itself have influenced them and their teaching.
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Fighting Fat Stigma With Science
What can we assume about students’ health based on their weight? Nothing.
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How the Teaching Tolerance Award Expanded My Teaching Family
Learn from 2016 TT Award winner Cody Miller about how the award influences professional practice.
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The World Was Silent
A study of the Armenian Genocide raises troubling questions of remembrance and responsibility.
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Four Freedoms
In his 1941 State of the Union Address, President Franklin D. Roosevelt outlined four fundamental human freedoms—the freedom of speech, of worship, from want, and from fear—for the United States and the rest of the world.
June 10, 2015
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Saffron Dreams
Although her husband died in the September 11 attack, Arissa is targeted for being Muslim. In this excerpt, she is held up by a group of men who berate her and threaten to kill her until they realize she is pregnant.
July 7, 2014
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The Convert
This radio segment looks at a workshop, led by law professor Ramzi Kassem, offering guidance to Muslims on how to respond in the event that they find themselves under surveillance in terrorism investigations.
July 3, 2014
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Injustice on Our Plates
Our food supply depends on immigrant labor. Seven new Teaching Tolerance lessons bring this important message into the classroom.
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Speak Acholi? No? Then You Need An Interpreter
When I entered the classroom to interpret for the middle school parent and teacher conference, the student shouted that I wasn’t necessary. The teacher had called for my services because for two semesters she had been telling the mother that her son was flunking. And for two semesters, the mother had grinned ecstatically and said, “Thank you”—her only English words. The son had “interpreted” to his mother that he was on the honor roll.
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Hackberry Hill Pumped Up for Mix It Up
Hackberry Hill Elementary takes its Mix It Up At Lunch day seriously–and so do its kids. They arrived in waves during lunch and recess on Tuesday, eager and ready for fun activities.