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Service-Learning and Prejudice Reduction
Four steps every educator should take to help ensure service projects reduce stereotyping, rather than reinforce it.
July 6, 2009
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Boosting Empathy with Five Simple Words
Ricky was a big ball of anger. In all fairness, he had plenty to be angry about. The first years of his life were pretty rough. Now, at age 7, home life was starting to normalize. But sometimes just getting through the day without throwing a chair was enough for him to handle, let alone any sort of academic rigor. He had a hard time seeing others’ points of view. He was definitely my most challenging student and constantly in need of my attention.
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Reflection: Crucial for Effective Teachers
“To err is human” but to reflect is divine. Teachers are human. We get frustrated, lose our tempers, make bad judgment calls and sometimes wish for a do-over button. Unfortunately, there isn't a magical reset button—or is there? Being an effective, successful teacher does not mean you never make mistakes. It just means we need to learn from them.
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“I Was Born on September 11, 2001”
After a candid classroom discussion, this high school teacher marvels at the questions and concerns that educators like herself must confront at school.
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The Case of the Missing Women
I held up the front page of our college newspaper and asked my first-year journalism students if any questions came to mind as they looked at the photographs of candidates running for president and vice president of our student government. It’s a multimedia storytelling class and the assignments for the week were about analyzing and taking photographs.
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Expanding Expectations for Students
This teacher wanted to empower her female students through literature. She boosted all students’ reading skills and self-confidence in the process.
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When Décor Is More Than Décor

Two examples of clashing interpretations went viral this week; both of them involved the use of cotton as a decorative statement.