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Peer Perspective Challenges Stereotypes

On a recent field trip, I found Nashley and Bersabeh in a quiet corner of the library, sharing both a chair and a book. For an English teacher, this scene is pure gold: two ninth-graders, becoming friends, in the library, reading a book. I snapped a photo before squealing my delight. Then, I crouched down next to them to find out more about what they were reading.
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Word Work

Word Wall

A word wall is an organized display of vocabulary words drawn from central texts students are reading.
Grade Level
3-5
CCSS
L.3-5.4, L.3-5.5, L.3-5.6
July 19, 2014
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Beth Hoover

Beth Hoover is an educator for Power Up, Speak Out! in Red Lodge, Montana. She educates teachers, school counselors, administrators, and violence prevention educators about the five lesson toolkit. The five lesson toolkit covers what middle school students deserve in healthy relationships, including lessons about power dynamics, red flags, boundaries, and consent. Hoover is also the communications manager for Power Up, Speak Out! She has her Master of Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Wyoming, and draws upon her past work experiences as a librarian, a special education para
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Dr. Shantá R. Robinson

Dr. Shantá R. Robinson holds a B.A. in sociology from the University of North Carolina at Asheville and an M.A. in public administration from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She earned her Ph.D. in educational studies at the University of Michigan, where she specialized in the sociology of education; qualitative methodologies; and issues of race, class and access in secondary schooling. She began her professional career as a high school history teacher in Charlotte. Robinson’s research interests include the role of social identity in marginalized students’ educational
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Brain Game Time!

Game time is being cut in exchange for increased direct instruction time in reading and mathematics. But research shows that games actually nourish the brain—and one teacher uses them daily in her classroom.
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Chapter 1: Editorials

An excerpt from A Whale Hunt, How a Native-American Village Did What No One Thought It Could by Robert Sullivan. This piece is to accompany "Holding Onto Heritage: Native Whale Hunts & Diversity" lesson.
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Reading & Language Arts
Social Studies
Social Justice Domain
July 14, 2017