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Helping Students Realize Their Potential
Tracy Oliver-Gary is helping students realize their full potential.
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Place as a Mirror of Self and Community
Students will understand difference and community by exploring a special place in their lives.
August 18, 2009
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Step Outside the Teacher Box
Sometimes teachers have to think outside the box to reach students. This educator found his work requires great expansion.
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Close and Critical Reading
Text Graffiti
This strategy exposes students to multiple short pieces of a text before they read it in its entirety. Students read selected quotes out of context and comment on both the selection and the comments of other students. The activity ends with students reflecting on their reactions to and predictions about the text.
July 19, 2014
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Then and Now
Will the Supreme Court outlaw purposeful integration of our schools?
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Go Outside, Meet Your Students
“All these kids … you must be brave,” said the man in hiking gear. After a sunny but cold day on the beach punctuated by a trudge through sandpaper wind, I was plodding downhill with the stragglers from my hiking group. The more energetic among them galloped to the end, past the curious hiker.
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Helping Students Connect With Standing Rock
The Sioux Nation protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline is taking on greater significance each day. Don’t miss the opportunity to teach about history in the making.
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Labor Matters
Draw on your students' prior knowledge to help them understand the importance of the labor movement.
July 6, 2009
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The Thrilling Tale of How Robert Smalls Seized a Confederate Ship and Sailed it to Freedom
This story is the retelling of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery with his entire family in tow. With a plan "as dangerous as it was brilliant," Smalls commandeers a Confederate ship and successfully navigates it out of Charleston's blockaded port and into the hands of the Union army.
July 31, 2018
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What We're Reading
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