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Teaching While White
These two educators argue that truly serving all students means confronting racism, privilege and injustice.
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Fueled by Doubt
Educators need to recognize the doubts that students carry, this former elementary teacher says. But in doing so, educators should emphasize to students that doubt can lead to learning and growth.
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Defensive About Diversity Trainings
How do you respond to co-workers who do not recognize their own privileges? An after-school program staff member shares her experience.
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Treasure Chest for Change
It is a challenge to help students to learn not only about history but also from it.
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Imagining the Lives of Others
Teaching Tolerance director Maureen Costello talks empathy as a means to move forward.
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Margins of Error
The needs of limited English proficiency students put special education assessment to the test.
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Reconsider Columbus Day
Teachers have the power to change the practice of celebrating Columbus to a practice of celebrating indigenous peoples’ presence, endurance and accomplishments. This blogger suggests how to do just that.
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Our Challenges: A Blended Poem Activity
In this lesson, students will take a deeper look at two major speeches on race – one by President Bill Clinton, the other by then-candidate Barack Obama – and discuss the core issues in each.
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Appreciate the Diversity in Rural Places
I felt myself straighten in my chair. I quickly shook off the tiredness of a long day of teaching when our professor explained most of us found it difficult to understand multicultural education “because our viewpoint was that of the white, upper middle class.”