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Issue 52, Spring 2016

Responding to Trauma in Your Classroom

Trauma can have significant and lasting effects on students. This PD Café will help you learn how to recognize the signs of trauma, better understand the causes of trauma, and take steps to establish social and emotional safety in your classroom.

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Informational

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).

Learning for Justice Staff

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Religion Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism

Subject

Civics

History

April 27, 2016

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November 18, 2016

Teach Standing Rock With Purpose

This educator—originally from North Dakota—shares two reflections that inform how and what she teaches about Standing Rock and the Dakota Access Pipeline.

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Rights & Activism

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June 20, 2011

Crocodile and Ghost Bat Have a Hullabaloo

In the Dreamtime, all the animal tribes in the outback decided to go on a walkabout. Red Kangaroo, always the most social, had arranged the entire thing. "It will be a wonderful time for all of us to get to know each

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Literature

Crocodile and Ghost Bat Have a Hullabaloo: An Australian Tale of Name-Calling

Although carefully planned at twilight so all animals can attend, things go terribly wrong during this walkabout. The group creates such a terrible hullabaloo that Namarrkun, the lightning man, is forced to show his strength.

Jeff Sapp

Grade Level

K-2 3-5

Topic

Bullying & Bias

July 2, 2014

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Literature

What Is Talmud?: A Jewish tale set in medieval Germany

Girl sits on a man's lap with a large book.

This story introduces the Talmud, an important book in the Jewish faith that contains the ideas and teachings from hundreds of rabbis. A father reads a story from the Talmud to his daughter and they talk about its meaning.

Nina Jaffe and Steve Zeitlin

Grade Level

K-2 3-5

Topic

Religion Gender & Sexual Identity

July 3, 2014

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Informational

1961: The Freedom Riders

The Freedom Riders looked to invoke federal action and gain national attention as they traveled on interstate bus lines across the South seeking service at white-only waiting rooms and lunch counters.

Merrill Perlman

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Rights & Activism

Subject

Civics

History

Geography

July 7, 2014

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Literature

Saffron Dreams

Although her husband died in the September 11 attack, Arissa is targeted for being Muslim. In this excerpt, she is held up by a group of men who berate her and threaten to kill her until they realize she is pregnant.

Shaila Abdullah

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Religion

Subject

Civics

History

Geography

July 7, 2014

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Multimedia

Teaching Tolerance Interview With John Lewis

In the graphic novel March, Congressman John Lewis documents his experiences as a young civil rights activist. Hear him describe his first arrest employing a nonviolent resistance strategy, as captured in the book.

John Lewis

Grade Level

6-8

Topic

Civil Rights Movement Class Rights & Activism

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Civics

History

June 20, 2016

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September 2, 2015

Autism and the Midas of Metaphor

This writing teacher challenges the mistaken view that people on the autism spectrum lack emotion and empathy.

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Ability

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