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Bridging Friendship on the Titanic

Sometimes school tracking sets students up for failure, academically and socially. My students with disabilities, who require extra academic assistance, often ended up on the short end of the stick. Because they were in all of the same classes together I noticed that they also clung to each other in the cafeteria. They had a difficult time fitting in and making friends with other students.
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Collage of Concerns

Students create visual artwork combining various images to convey diversity or social justice issues, concerns or themes related to the central text.
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K-2
July 13, 2014
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Geneva Gay

Geneva Gay is a professor of education at the University of Washington-Seattle, where she teaches multicultural education and general curriculum theory. She is nationally and internationally known for her scholarship in multicultural education, particularly as it relates to curriculum design, staff development, classroom instruction and intersections of culture, race, ethnicity, teaching and learning. She has written a number of books and book chapters, including the book Culturally Responsive Teaching. She works with Scott Foresman as a member of the authorship team for its New Elementary
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Maria Hantzopoulos

Maria is associate professor of education at Vassar College, where she coordinates the Adolescent Education Certification Program. Hantzopoulos' work has appeared in a variety of publications, such as Rethinking Schools, Journal of Peace Education and Anthropology and Education Quarterly. She is the author of Restoring Dignity in Public Schools: Human Rights Education in Action (Teachers College Press, 2016), and co-editor of the volumes Critical Small Schools: Beyond Privatization in New York City Urban Educational Reform (Information Age, 2012) and Peace Education: International Perspectives
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Margarita Bauzá Wagerson

Margarita Bauzá Wagerson is a freelance writer for Teaching Tolerance. She has 15 years of daily newspaper writing experience in Michigan, 10 of those in Detroit, where she wrote about education, transportation and jobs. She has been a staff writer at the Lansing State Journal, Grand Rapids Press, the Detroit News and Detroit Free Press. A native of Puerto Rico, she is a graduate of Michigan State University and a former board member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. Her freelance work focuses on education and health care.