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Common Ground
Research tells us that children’s engagement with natural environments offers a host of benefits. Schools can capitalize on this knowledge.
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Abuse of Power
Most bullying prevention is aimed at students.
What happens when adults are the aggressors?
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“Hacking” as Critical Literacy
"Hack jams" encourage students to question reality, challenge texts and authors, and practice becoming agents of change in the world.
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Democratic Classrooms
Educators possess different philosophies and styles for their teaching. Some work from an authoritarian perspective, leveraging their power as the teacher to control student behavior and dictate classroom participation. Others employ a more democratic approach, sharing power with students and supporting them in managing their own behaviors.
July 6, 2009
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Majority Rule
In this essay, the author considers what it means to live in a democracy of "majority rule" and where minorities find their place and voice (or lack thereof in such a system).
April 27, 2016
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Teaching Hard History From the Beginning
Children should learn about American slavery starting in kindergarten—and starting with Indigenous enslavement.
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Knowing When to Advocate for a Student
Today, I got a laptop. Not for me. For Aeesha. Let me flash back to about six weeks ago. A team meeting took place around a table in the science classroom, completing the annual discussion about Aeesha’s Individualized Education Plan (IEP). In eighth grade, Aeesha still struggles with basic mathematics, with written expression skills and with decoding text. In many ways, she is an elementary school student trapped in a middle school student’s adolescent body.
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Mary Robinson
“Mary Robinson, lawyer, human rights activist and feminist, redefined the scope of two important positions. Robinson was elected the first woman president of Ireland in 1990, serving until 1997. She took up the post of United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights from 1997 to 2002.”
August 8, 2017
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Evaluating Online Sources
In this lesson, students will locate and verify reliable sources of information.
September 29, 2017
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Discrimination in Banned Books
The last week of September is Banned Books Week. Many teachers use the event to talk about free speech with their students. I also use it to begin a conversation about discrimination.
August 24, 2009