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This toolkit for "The Ripple Effect" couples two powerful YCteen stories with the rigorous literacy strategies and tasks from TT's classroom resources.

Michael Josephson, founder of the Character Counts Coalition, offers steps to reduce or eliminate negative cheers.

As a child I knew my grandfather was different. Grandpapa had been a sharecropper in southern Indiana. He had worked most of his adult life raising corn and pigs. His hands were big and callused. He stooped when he walked and the skin on his neck and face was scarred. His earlobes were long, stretched and fused down low at the back of his jawbone. His eyes seemed to be a bit elongated in their sockets. He was different because he looked different. You see, when he was a young child he had played with matches and caught his clothes on fire. His facial disfigurement was the price he paid for the bad judgment of a toddler.

How does funding impact a day in the life of your students? Have them do the math!

It’s time to intervene with alarmingly high preschool suspensions.

When this teacher, then a closeted lesbian, heard her students using the word gay negatively, she had to choose between playing it safe and genuinely fostering an inclusive classroom culture.

As you consider addressing Thanksgiving in your classroom, the approaches of the educators in our community offer great places to start.