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Section IV: Policy Checkup

To ensure students feel welcome, valued and safe enough to learn, schools must actively cultivate a welcoming climate that values every member of its student body. This means that the spoken and unspoken messages

Topic

Immigration

July 5, 2017

lesson

Text-Dependent Questions for “The Color of Justice”

Text-Dependent Questions accompany “The Color of Justice.”

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Class Rights & Activism

Subject

Social Studies

Civics

History

July 18, 2017

article

Issue 2, Spring 2022

A Student’s Take on Sugar-coated History

This Black Alabama teen and her family had to fill the gaps in her education at home. Here’s her advice to teachers.

article

Issue 18, Fall 2000

Catch Them Before They Fall

A Kentucky school district bucks the trend toward exclusionary discipline.

Topic

Bullying & Bias

article

March 23, 2020

A Trauma-informed Approach to Teaching Through Coronavirus

Empty desks in a classroom with a blackboard in the background.

Experts from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network share their recommendations for educators supporting students during the COVID-19 crisis.

article

Issue 26, Fall 2004

Columbine Timeline

Spring & Summer 1999 April 20 Columbine High School students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shoot and kill 12 students and one teacher before turning the guns on themselves. Twenty-three are injured. The students killed

Topic

Rights & Activism

article

August 10, 2018

Hate at School: A Back-to-School Look at the Past Year

Distraught student sitting against wall with hoodie drawn

“Back to school” shouldn’t mean “back to hate.” Here’s a look at the hate incidents we reported last school year—and steps for making this year better.

Topic

Bullying & Bias

article

March 13, 2018

Teaching to End Tragedy: A Call to Elementary School Teachers

elementary teacher talking with students

This educator asks elementary teachers: Is your classroom preparing students to work toward healthier, safer, more equitable communities—or to do worksheets?

Topic

Rights & Activism

article

April 25, 2018

Youth Voice and the Quiet Work of Teachers

Emma Gonzalez and Jeff Foster at March for Our Lives Rally | Photo by Emilee McGovern

A principal considers the role teachers can—and should—play in preparing students for activism.

Topic

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

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