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Visibility is Power
Elementary educator Skye Tooley emphasizes the power of LGBTQ+ visibility in fostering positive spaces of understanding and empathy where all students feel visible and accepted.
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The Privacy Paradox
This lesson teaches students to understand the impact of online actions on their personal privacy.
September 26, 2017
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Yaki’s Mural
Yaki struggles to feel at home in her new country and her new school, but her creativity and Mayan culture help to ease the transition.
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Liberated Roots
School and community gardens can be emancipatory spaces—if they’re built around culturally responsive practices. Get to know three gardening activists who have learned to ask the right questions—and listen to the answers.
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Toolkit for "Saving Title VI"
This toolkit utilizes some of those educator-facing resources so you—or your professional learning community—can frame a reflection on your students, your school and your role in upholding Title VI.
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To Sustain the Tough Conversations, Active Listening Must Be the Norm
We have to prepare students—and ourselves—to communicate, question and work our way through a disconnect when the outside world spills into the classroom.
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Una Vida de Esperanza
In this interview, Luis Rodriguez describes how the systemic demoralization he faced in school and society at a young age drove him to join a street gang and how writing his book, Always Running, was an attempt to call his son and other young people in similar situations to change their lives.
June 20, 2016
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Ten Myths About Immigration
Debunk the misinformation students bring to school—and help them think for themselves.
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The Religious Liberty Task Force Is More Sword Than Shield
On Monday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the creation of a task force that—in the name of “religious liberty”—threatens to systemically oppress LGBTQ students. The time for educators to demonstrate their allyship is now.
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Getting on the Right Track: How One School Stopped Tracking Students
Tracking and ability grouping remain common practices in schools across the country despite research showing these practices contribute to segregated classes and opportunity gaps. In Walla Walla, Washington, a group of educators decided to try something different.