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Nurturing Optimal Classroom Community for Culturally Responsive Conflict Resolution
Students of conflict resolution laud facilitative mediation for its cultural responsiveness.
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Hate at School: September 2018
In September, hate incidents including racism, anti-Semitism, and anti-immigrant and anti-LGBTQ sentiment continued as school leaders across the United States struggled to address them.
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Sexual Assault Awareness Month
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Use this opportunity to engage your students in upending rape culture and preventing sexual assault all year.
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Word Work
Traits Matrix
In this semantic feature analysis strategy, students use a grid to show how vocabulary words relate to one another and to conceptual frameworks (e.g., masculine versus feminine).
July 19, 2014
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Reflection: When I Feel...
This activity helps students and adults understand the difference between charity (responsible for others) and service (responsible to others). Use in conjunction with class discussions and activities examining the difference between charity and empowerment.
July 6, 2009
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Agree to (Respectfully) Disagree
How to teach students to respectfully engage with peers of differing religious belief systems.
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Ending Child Abuse At School
As a kid, I remember listening wide-eyed to my grandmother tell me about the “Dummy Room.” The Dummy Room was one of her first assignments as a young teacher in small-town Iowa in the 1930s. Like other Dummy Rooms across the country, it was the dumping ground for the school district’s hard cases.
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Pop Music as Critical Text
Is Beyoncé—or any pop culture icon—someone we should discuss with our students?
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professional development
Do It!
This piece is to accompany Crucial ConversationsStudy Circles in Action
July 6, 2009