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Issue 53, Summer 2016

Toolkit for "Joseph’s Castle in the Sky"

This toolkit for “Joseph’s Castle in the Sky” includes lesson plans, book lists, games and data to help teachers in K-12 classrooms give their students a deeper understanding of Haitian culture and history.

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December 11, 2020

Favorite Holiday Poster Projects Aren’t Inclusive

Group of students and teacher sitting near blackboard having a discussion.

An educator and mother recommends strategies for supporting all students’ religions and cultures, during the winter holidays and year-round.

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Part I: Creating Your Group

Before You Begin: The Planning Committee Getting the Right Folks and the Right Data to the Table Once you’ve decided to start a social justice reading group, it’s tempting to jump right into conversations with young

October 16, 2019

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March 14, 2018

Walkout Day

This teacher built a custom lesson plan to mark a day when thousands of students walked out of their schools in protest. Check it out—and build your own!

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 56, Summer 2017

Toolkit for "Walking Undocumented"

This toolkit for “Walking Undocumented” highlights a handful of TT classroom materials for teaching about immigrant students, including those who may be undocumented or from mixed-status families.

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Issue 58, Spring 2018

What We're Watching

Dim the lights and get ready to learn with these TT-approved films!

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January 31, 2012

Don’t Miss a Chance to Shift Hate Rhetoric

“I hate Jews.” That was the sentence, uttered coldly and dripping with vile undertones, from the mouth of a sixth-grader that nearly caused me to let a very powerful teachable moment slip through my fingers. Almost.

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Bullying & Bias

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August 16, 2017

Why I Will Not Be Teaching About Charlottesville

After Charlottesville, this black teacher of black and brown students knew that her kids would not want another lesson about bigotry and racism. Here’s what she did instead.

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Rights & Activism

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September 27, 2016

Flight Plan

When this teacher asked newly-minted sixth-graders how they want to treat themselves, others and their communities during middle school, paper airplanes made for a creative way for these students to offer answers.

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July 7, 2009

From Incarceration to School

How to help young offenders make the transition.

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