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A Message From Our Director
TT Director Maureen Costello encourages educators to “stand strong, find your allies and do what is brave”—like the educators featured in this issue.
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What Support Do You Need?
Let us know how we can support your work as the COVID-19 outbreak continues to have widespread effects on schools and communities.
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How the World Came to Be
These creation myths, from two different cultures, consider how the world came to be.
July 9, 2014
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Helping Temporary Students Feel Welcome
Welcoming a temporary student holds lessons in empathy and respect for the whole class.
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The Infamous N-word
No matter the spelling or context, the n-word remains intertwined with American racial tensions past and present.
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Crazy Versus Eccentric
In this ironic cartoon, the same man is depicted twice—once with tattered clothing and unkept body hair as a poor man and a second time in a suit with a clean-cut image as a rich man. As a poor man, he's regarded as crazy, but as a rich man, he's eccentric.
July 2, 2014
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The Problem With Pronouns
Supporting trans and gender-fluid students requires the courage to try until you get it right.
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Blogging and the Immigrant Experience
To help her students understand each other’s stories, backgrounds and experiences—and to improve their writing—this teacher added blogging to her curriculum.
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The America Project
When Carmen asks her mom what it means to be Puerto Rican and American, she learns a valuable lesson about identity and culture.
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A Place Where Sunflowers Grow
Mari and her family have been sent to an internment camp in Utah. She does not understand what they have done to deserve their internment and longs for her backyard in California where she used to grow sunflowers.
April 7, 2016