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StoryCorps: Father, Daughter and the Holocaust
“And I asked him everything that I ever wanted to ask. I asked him to tell me the real story.”
July 8, 2014
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July 8, 2014
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Sitting in the Shadows of Hope
This TT staffer reflects on the incessant violence in our country as an educator and a mother.
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#dontshoot
The tragic loss of Michael Brown presents an opportunity to help students connect with our collective humanity.
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The L.A. Riots Echo Loudly In My Classroom
My students are too young to remember the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Just four years before their birth, they refer to them as something from “back in the day.”But the themes of police brutality, poverty and racism are all too familiar. And most drew an immediate connection between the Rodney King verdict that sparked those riots and the 2009 fatal shooting of Oscar Grant. Grant was shot in the back by Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer Johannes Mehserle less than one mile from our school in Oakland.
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Section I: Policy Checkup
Policies reflect a school’s priorities and, like budgets, reveal as much in what they omit as in what’s written on the page. It’s time more LGBTQ kids see themselves on the page. School leaders who make inclusive
October 25, 2018
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Toolkit for BYOD?
We need to consider equity when we talk about “Bring Your Own Device” policies. This toolkit involves students in conversations that analyze both the financial and emotional costs of implementing a BYOD policy.
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Valentine Road Spotlights TT Issues
HBO premieres a new documentary about the murder of a transgender youth and the community that survived him.