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Multimedia
Hand Me Downs
This spoken word poem explores the limited definition of maleness that is sometimes passed from fathers to sons.
July 8, 2014
3,815 Results
teaching strategy
Community Inquiry
Critical Listening Guide
A guide to help students interpret, analyze and evaluate information encountered in a variety of media formats. Use this guide with the spoken and performed texts included in the Perspectives anthology.
July 13, 2014
student task
Do Something
Musical Movement Showcase
Students create and perform a music or dance piece related to themes in the central text.
July 13, 2014
article
Violent Truth Is Much Scarier Than Simulation
An active shooter training video produced in southern California leaves one teacher feeling offended and traumatized.
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Peer Perspective Challenges Stereotypes
On a recent field trip, I found Nashley and Bersabeh in a quiet corner of the library, sharing both a chair and a book. For an English teacher, this scene is pure gold: two ninth-graders, becoming friends, in the library, reading a book. I snapped a photo before squealing my delight. Then, I crouched down next to them to find out more about what they were reading.
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An Early Experience with Learning Tolerance
A childhood lesson taught this teacher to ask the right questions when working with students with disabilities.
article
Drowning in Debt
Predatory lending targets our most vulnerable students. Help them avoid the pitfalls.
article
The Gender Spectrum
Move beyond the pink/blue binary to support students who don’t conform to narrow gender norms.
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Informational
Zahrah’s Hijab
As a young Muslim girl, Zahrah wore her hijab to school on what is considered to be the most important day of the week in Islam—Friday. Not everyone at Zahrah's school understands her religious traditions, but a visit from her mom changes this.
July 9, 2014
article
Title IX at 40
This 1972 law was never just about sports—it radically changed everything about education for girls and women.