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Expanding Expectations for Students
This teacher wanted to empower her female students through literature. She boosted all students’ reading skills and self-confidence in the process.
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Toolkit for Avatars and Activists
Playing digital games can help students learn about social justice issues. Explore with students the value of digital games they already play, and then work with colleagues to research additional games.
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Community Inquiry
Readers' Theater
During a readers’ theater, two or more students dramatize a text by reading expressively.
July 13, 2014
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Not True! Gender Doesn't Limit You!
What works—and what doesn’t—when it comes to teaching young children about gender bullying?
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Rising to the Challenge
A Louisiana Children's Museum exhibit takes the "dis" out of disability.
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When Bad Things Happen, Be a Helper
When it seems that tragedies are happening in rapid succession, we evoke a quote from educator and television host Fred Rogers of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. As a boy, his mother told him that when scary thing happen to “look for the helpers.”
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Paddling Upstream
Catholic and Protestant youth in Northern Ireland embark on a brighter future.
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Basic Strategies
Educators from all grade levels and all parts of the country emphasize this point: You must speak up against every bigoted and prejudiced remark, every time it happens.
July 30, 2012
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Peggy McIntosh: Beyond the Knapsack
Learn how Serial Testimony places the emphasis on student experience.
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Exploring Young Immigrant Stories
This lesson helps students appreciate diversity among their peers and the diversity of immigrants all over the world. Through hands-on exercises, students will discover similarities and differences they share with other children.
September 12, 2016