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August 28, 2018

Voting and Democracy Grants Roundup: High School

Person with a "I Voted" sticker on their thumb

TT Voting and Democracy Grants fund projects that encourage students to become empowered advocates for voting in their communities. Here are a few of our favorite projects happening this fall in high schools across the country.

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Rights & Activism

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August 30, 2018

Voting and Democracy Grants Roundup: Elementary and Middle School

TT Voting and Democracy Grants fund projects that encourage students to become empowered advocates for voting in their communities. Here are a few of our favorites.

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Rights & Activism

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February 6, 2019

Teachers Against Child Detention: “We’re Not Gonna Stop”

Immigrant families and allies gather behind a sign that reads, "Keep our families together."

Teacher of the Year Mandy Manning talks with TT about the movement to end child detention, the upcoming Teach-In for Freedom and a Call to Action she hopes all educators will hear.

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Immigration Rights & Activism

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Issue 63, Fall 2019

Teaching Kindness Isn’t Enough

Illustration of several kids gathered around an adult holding the scales of justice.

Teaching kindness is a staple of elementary practice, but that isn’t the same as teaching justice.

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Issue 19, Spring 2001

"Someone Else's Problem"

A hunger project moves California students from indifference to activism.

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Class Rights & Activism

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April 12, 2016

Art as Resistance, Part 2

In this second blog of a two-part series, a high school English teacher in the Dominican Republic explains how her students’ exploration of social injustices materialized in an action project that no one involved will ever forget.

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 43, Spring 2013

Mimi's Moms

Teaching Tolerance illustration of girl intersected by a female relationship sign

Creating welcoming classrooms for young children of LGBT families.

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Gender & Sexual Identity

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Using Editorial Cartoons to Teach Social Justice

Using Editorial Cartoons to Teach Social Justice is a series of 14 lessons. Each lesson focuses on a contemporary social justice issue. These lessons are multidisciplinary and geared toward middle and high school students.

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6-8 9-12

August 3, 2010

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Davey Shlasko

Davey Shlasko is the founder and director of Think Again Training & Consulting, a consulting group that supports purpose-driven organizations to address inequities through collaborative strategies for meaningful change. Davey’s work has supported schools, universities, health care and human service providers, advocacy organizations, and businesses to integrate principles and practices of social justice into their planning and everyday action. Davey has an M.Ed. in social justice education from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and teaches as an adjunct associate professor in social

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March 5, 2019

New Guide for Gender-Inclusive Puberty and Health Education

Young students sitting at tables, focused on assignments in front of them.

Our friends at Gender Spectrum are announcing a new resource to ensure your teaching of puberty and health education is accurate and inclusive of all students.

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Gender & Sexual Identity

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