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Issue 60, Fall 2018

This Is Not a Drill

Educators across the country are taking action when ICE raids happen in their communities. Here’s how you can stand with undocumented students and families—whether or not you live in a vulnerable community.

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"Turn Beauty Inside Out Day" Winning Essays

These essays accompany the lesson "Beauty Is Skin Deep."

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Bullying & Bias

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Reading & Language Arts

Social Studies

SEL

Science & Health

July 17, 2017

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Social Justice Standards | Unpacking Action

This professional development addresses the Action domain.

Professional Development Topic

Classroom Culture

Instruction

April 17, 2014

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July 7, 2009

Understanding Size Bias

A Conversation with Rebecca Puhl—this piece is a resource for the Teaching Tolerance article Weighing In

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September 10, 2018

Voting and Democracy Grants in Action: Connecting to Our Past and Creating Our Present

TT Voting and Democracy Grants fund projects that encourage students to become empowered advocates for voting in their communities. Grantee Alexandra Melnick explains the project she’ll be implementing in her 12th-grade classroom this fall.

Topic

Rights & Activism

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March 15, 2019

Finding Resolve After the New Zealand Mosque Shootings

girl in black and white looking off to the side

The mosque shootings in New Zealand may be far away, but this is an opportunity to help students understand and actively participate in a better tomorrow.

Topic

Religion

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April 9, 2018

Youth—United! #Enough in Chicago, Illinois

Alex King #Enough | March for Our Lives | TT Interview

We reached out to students from around the United States who are working to keep their schools safe from gun violence. This time, we caught up with senior Alex King, Peace Warrior and leader with Good Kids, Mad City at North Lawndale College Prep High School.

Topic

Rights & Activism

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STEM by the Numbers

In this lesson, students use data to analyze the participation of white, black, Asian and Hispanic men and women in STEM careers as compared with their participation in the general workforce. They then discuss the possible reasons identity groups are unequally represented in STEM careers.

Grade Level

3-5

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

Subject

Reading & Language Arts

Social Studies

Math & Technology

Science & Health

April 19, 2016

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May 10, 2018

Classroom Mindfulness in Real Life: A Portrait

TT Grants coordinator Jey Ehrenhalt talked with elementary educator Kristie Burnett, who models mindfulness and brings meditative practices to the students in her third-grade classroom in upstate New York.

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Issue 62, Summer 2019

A Different Kind of Pedagogy

Illustration of students having a discussion with a teacher seated near a blackboard.

Process drama, which encourages students to play with inquiry, brings content to life for students. Here’s how it looked in one high school classroom in Ohio.

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