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Nurturing Optimal Classroom Community for Culturally Responsive Conflict Resolution

Materials Copy of Questions for Reflective Practice for each participant Framework At its best, facilitative mediation creates positive multicultural spirit and climate, emphasizes careful, respectful listening, and

Professional Development Topic

Classroom Culture

July 26, 2017

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June 28, 2018

History Walks: Main Street

2015 labor strike against Kohler in Wisconsin | Photo by Asher Heimermann

A former high school teacher recalls teaching the strikes of the Gilded Age as workers in his rural community began a strike of their own.

Topic

Class Rights & Activism

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Literature

Barracoon

This excerpt from Barracoon, which provides a first-person account from the last living man transported from Africa to America as an enslaved person. The excerpt shows Zora Neal Hurston arriving at Cudjo Lewis’ house to speak with him about his past in only the way he can.

Zora Neale Hurston

Grade Level

6-8

Topic

Religion Class

Subject

History

June 18, 2019

lesson

Everyone’s a Helper

This lesson helps students understand the concepts of strengths, struggles and what it means to help.

Grade Level

K-2 3-5

Subject

Reading & Language Arts

Social Studies

SEL

ELL / ESL

July 10, 2017

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September 21, 2017

When Décor Is More Than Décor

Two examples of clashing interpretations went viral this week; both of them involved the use of cotton as a decorative statement.

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October 18, 2011

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.

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September 11, 2020

What Anti-racism Really Means for Educators

As anti-racism becomes a popular goal for schools across the nation, this TT advisory board member considers what it really means to be an anti-racist educator.

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Issue 32, Fall 2007

Not True! Gender Doesn't Limit You!

Teaching Tolerance illustration of children dress as pirate and super-hero with cape

What works—and what doesn’t—when it comes to teaching young children about gender bullying?

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

article

March 20, 2019

Existence Is Resistance: Supporting Student-led Social Change

Students marching together holding a Black Lives Matter sign

As we encourage students to take action against injustice, what are we doing to support them in this work? An educator offers five practical lessons she’s learned in doing just that.

Topic

Rights & Activism

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Multimedia

Hawaiians Live in Aloha

Screenshot of "A Place in the Middle: The True Meaning of Aloha" intro sequence.

This animation sequence explains traditional Hawaiian gender roles and their conception of māhū, or the middle. Kumu Hina, a teacher at Hālau Lōkahi— a public charter school in Hawaii—also discusses the history of colonization and its impact on Hawaiian culture.

Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

Subject

History

Geography

March 20, 2015

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