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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.
November 27, 2012
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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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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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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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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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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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A Classroom Discussion About the Media, Trust and Knowledge
Encouraging students to think through problems in the contemporary media landscape can help them become more active, open-minded knowledge-seekers.
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What Sally Ride and Amelia Earhart Taught Us
This week reminded us of two pioneering women in aviation. The nation mourned the death of Sally Ride, the first American woman in space. At the same time, many of us celebrated the 115th birthday of Amelia Earhart.
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Donald Trump Jr., Sexual Harassment and Our Schools
Recent news of some troubling comments reveals two false assumptions: that teaching kindergarten isn’t work and that sexual harassment isn’t a problem in schools.