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Our Groups of Friends
In this activity, students examine the diversity of their groups of friends.
January 21, 2012
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Toolkit for Julia Moves to the United States
Help students understand Julia’s experience from different perspectives with this interview activity.
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Toolkit for "It’s Report Card Time—and I Despise It"
This teacher dreads reducing her students to a few words on a progress report. So what would she rather tell them instead?
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Steps To Take When A Book Is Challenged
Learn how to combat censorship and book banning in your school or community with these actions from the American Library Association, National Council of Teachers of English and People for the American Way.
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Toolkit for "Shifting Out of Neutral"
This toolkit for “Shifting Out of Neutral” focuses on historical thinking development through critical literacy and builds on author Jonathan Gold’s call for educators to acknowledge and teach about power and bias.
student task
Write to the Source
Lift a Line
Lift A Line asks students to demonstrate their explanatory and descriptive writing skills.
July 19, 2014
student task
Write to the Source
Questions that Come Up
Questions that Come Up asks students to demonstrate their explanatory and informative writing skills.
July 19, 2014
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Welcome Aboard, Advisory Board!
We’re happy to introduce the educators who will serve on our advisory board for the next two years!
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Announcing the 2012 Mix It Up at Lunch Model Schools
Teaching Tolerance has named 77 schools—25 more than last year—from across the country as Mix It Up Model Schools for their exemplary efforts to foster respect and understanding among their students and throughout their campuses during the 2011-12 school year.
teaching strategy
Close and Critical Reading
GIST
Generating Interactions between Schemata and Texts (GIST) is a summarization procedure that helps students digest complex texts by requiring contextual word learning. GIST explicitly combines the most important words with reading and writing to comprehend complex texts.
July 19, 2014