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What We’re Reading This Week: October 21
A weekly sampling of articles, blogs and reports relevant to TT educators.
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Toolkit for 'Be a Good Boy'
Story Corner is a student-directed feature in Teaching Tolerance magazine. In the current issue, we tell the story of the Tennessee House member who cast the deciding vote for women’s suffrage. Vocabulary lapel [luh-
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History Class Practices Speaking Up
A history class offered an opportunity to model speaking up against bias.
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What Is Your American Flag?
Two drastically different images of the American flag have appeared in popular culture. What might they reveal about the state of race relations in the United States?
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Antonio's Card/La tarjeta de Antonio
In this story, Antonio learns that words have power, and that can be both a good and bad thing. As Mother’s Day approaches he must decide how to show his love for his mother and her partner and whether he wants that declaration to be public.
July 29, 2016
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Josh, Brandon and the Grumpy Old Man
Josh is annoyed with his grumpy neighbor, until a family member helps him find compassion.
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Race and Poverty Matter, Even on Earth Day
There’s an old joke among real estate agents that the three most important things to consider in any property are location, location, location.
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A Teacher Who Looks Like Me
A white educator reflects on this reality: Most teachers in the United States are white, which means that many children of color don’t have academic role models who look like them.
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Toolkit for "Sound Effects"
(Teacher Note: Bring in several magazine photographs of unknown people who represent a variety of races, ages, religious backgrounds, jobs, etc. Number the photographs, then hang them where students can view them.) 1
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Ban? No, Teach the Topics.
Gender, sexuality and religion are common themes in challenged books of 2015. Rather than effectively ban these topics from the classroom, TT recommends teaching about them and offers student texts to do so.