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August 30, 2011

Portfolio Activity for “Speak Truth To Power”

Grades: 9-12 Subjects: Reading and Language Arts, Social Studies, ELL/ESL Categories: Wealth and poverty; Gender, Race and ethnicity Speak Truth To Power is a project of the RFK Center for Justice and Human Rights. For

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July 18, 2012

Tear Down Boundaries, Register for ‘Mix It Up’

At a time when the nation’s schools are becoming more segregated, teachers and students across the country have an opportunity to show the rest of the world they’re committed to challenging these boundaries by registering for Teaching Tolerance’s Mix It Up at Lunch Day.

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August 23, 2012

Nathan Bedford Forrest: No Hero for Selma

Every city, town and hamlet has them: monuments commemorating pivotal events; memorials to heroes; parks, schools and public buildings named in honor of someone whose legacy is worth preserving.

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 51, Fall 2015

Toolkit for "Two Heads are Better Than One"

This toolkit provides five tools to help focus mentors’ and instructional coaches’ observations on the dynamics that help create equitable classrooms.

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I See You, You See Me: Body Image and Social Justice

This series help students think about their bodies and body images in a social justice context. Each lesson looks at a different aspect of the relationship children have with their bodies. The series helps students take ownership over their own feelings and attitudes and develop an activist stance in terms of understanding body image and also looking after their own physical and emotional wellbeing.

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K-2 3-5

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Bullying & Bias

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Reading & Language Arts

Social Studies

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ELL / ESL

November 27, 2012

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October 10, 2012

Coming Out as a Safe Zone for LGBT Students?

In an ideal world, our students would be safe to openly be who they are at all times. Since the world we live in is far from ideal, we must support our students’ rights to privacy and trust them to make the decision to reveal their sexuality when they feel the time is right.

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Gender & Sexual Identity

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May 19, 2016

Student Protests and the Complexities of Collective Action

When we encourage our students to consider how power and privilege affect them, we must also anticipate that they’re going to want to do something about injustices they see.

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Rights & Activism

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March 29, 2017

The Key to Post-Truth Teaching: Epistemology and Knowledge

How students learn to know and understand knowledge is essential to teachers’ work in the “post-truth” era.

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June 27, 2011

Melea Has Two Dads – And That’s Not a Problem

Melea hates school. She is 4 years old and was adopted at birth by two gay men. Her dads (Mark and Sam) are Caucasian and Melea is African American-Latino.

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Gender & Sexual Identity

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April 6, 2017

Bias and Skepticism: How Far Is Too Far?

How do we help students fine-tune their skepticism so that it leads to knowledge-seeking and openness to new ideas?

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