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Engaging Families and Caregivers

When educators actively engage the people who are central to children’s lives outside of school, they are building networks that support students’ experiences within school as well.

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November 21, 2023

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Issue 46, Spring 2014

Advice From the Experts

TT answers your tough questions. This time, we discuss teaching black history and honoring your and your students’ identities.

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Gender & Sexual Identity

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Keep Her Safe: Centering Black Girls in School Safety

[2024] This case study and report by NWLC and SPLC demonstrates how critical insights can come from centering Black girls in the school safety conversation.

May 1, 2024

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January 15, 2015

The Value of Ethnic Studies—For All Students

Despite arguments to the contrary, ethnic studies benefits all students—and research backs it up.

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Rights & Activism

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August 31, 2020

Educators’ and Students’ Rights During COVID-19

A children’s rights attorney and a policy analyst from the Southern Poverty Law Center explain educators’ rights to workplace safety, students’ rights to education access and what it might take to advocate for both.

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Ability Class Rights & Activism

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August 16, 2018

How Can We Build Anti-Racist White Educators?

Group of teachers in discussion and seated in a circle

One teacher reflects on what he and other white educators need to understand as they work to build anti-racist practices and identities.

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Rights & Activism

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February 6, 2019

Beyond the Little Rock Nine

Members of the Arkansas National Guard looking on as students gather outside of the entrance of Little Rock High School.

Help students connect history to the present by including lesser-known events and milestones when you teach the history of school integration.

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Rights & Activism

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Why Local Elections Matter

In this lesson, students explore the ways that decisions by local government affect their lives. They’ll review research and data about a few recent local elections to push back against the myth that a single vote doesn’t count. They’ll learn how laws in their state encourage or suppress voter engagement. And in an extension activity, eligible students learn how to register to vote.

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6-8 9-12

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Rights & Activism

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Social Studies

Civics

History

October 8, 2020

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Issue 59, Summer 2018

Integrating for Equity

Educators, activists and academics are raising the bar when it comes to achieving truly integrated schools.

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May 17, 2013

What’s Your Plan for Managing Difference?

Need tips for managing the dynamics of a multicultural, multiracial class? Here are four ideas to help you put a plan in place.

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