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School and community programs foster friendships across the generations

Involve your students in the debate over race, class and integration.

"Teachers can implement [these] specific methods and strategies which will communicate to Indian students an attitude of understanding and caring while demanding high performance."

I was a teacher for eight years before becoming a therapist. I am currently working at two middle schools in Longmont, Colo., as a prevention/intervention specialist. Basically, my job is to provide a safe place where students can share their most pressing issues without feeling judged.

As a kid, I remember listening wide-eyed to my grandmother tell me about the “Dummy Room.” The Dummy Room was one of her first assignments as a young teacher in small-town Iowa in the 1930s. Like other Dummy Rooms across the country, it was the dumping ground for the school district’s hard cases.

Do a critical reading of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Rosa Marcellino didn’t like being labeled “mentally retarded,” so she decided to let important people know.

Answers to your toughest social justice questions.