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Little Rock 60 Years Later
Looking back and looking ahead at the struggle to end segregated education.
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Youth Voice and the Quiet Work of Teachers
A principal considers the role teachers can—and should—play in preparing students for activism.
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Teaching and Affirming LGBTQ Youth after the ‘Bostock’ Decision
This summer’s landmark Supreme Court case made it illegal to fire someone based on their gender or sexuality. But ‘Bostock’ is a baseline, not a ceiling.
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Mary McLeod Bethune
In this lesson, students will read an excerpt of an interview given by Mary McLeod Bethune and will learn that she founded the Daytona National and Industrial School for Negro Girls (now Bethune-Cookman College) in 1904. Through close reading, they will explore and discuss connections between events from Bethune’s life experiences and their own lives, and connections between past and current events.
May 17, 2012
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Why Do I Teach? I've Changed My Answer
When I was studying to be a teacher, I had to write a philosophy of education. This essay was to explain what I believed about kids and the role teachers and education played in their lives. I wrote that all kids could learn, that they all deserved equal access to inspired teaching and that my role was to meet them wherever they were and serve them in the way that best met their needs.Although I still believe those things are true, I've come to realize that my teaching is driven more by a different philosophy than the one I wrote about.
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This Conversation Is Anti-Racist
Young people have the vision to imagine—and create—a world without racism. Adults just need to get on board.
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Little Rock Revisited: 40th Anniversary of Integration at Central High
Black students everywhere made history as pioneers paving the way for racial integration in their hometowns.
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Catching Kids Before They Sink
Laura Sofen’s inner angry teenager guides her each day as a teacher.
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Teaching to End Tragedy: A Call to Elementary School Teachers
This educator asks elementary teachers: Is your classroom preparing students to work toward healthier, safer, more equitable communities—or to do worksheets?