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"To the Dead We Owe the Truth"
In this segment from 3 1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets, a jury delivers the verdict in the case about the murder of Jordan Davis by Michael Dunn.
August 19, 2016
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What’s Next For Girls Who Want To Be Astronauts?
As the final Space Shuttle mission touched down last month, ending NASA’s 30-year space shuttle program, I wondered what would come next for women in aerospace. Without a clear, defined mission from NASA, I questioned where that leaves girls and young women who dream of becoming astronauts.
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Word Work
Word Wall
A word wall is an organized display of vocabulary words drawn from the texts students are reading.
July 19, 2014
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Mary McLeod Bethune
In this lesson, students will read an excerpt of an interview given by Mary McLeod Bethune and will learn that she founded the Daytona National and Industrial School for Negro Girls (now Bethune-Cookman College) in 1904. Through close reading, they will explore and discuss connections between events from Bethune’s life experiences and their own lives, and connections between past and current events.
May 17, 2012
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A Solitary Struggle
For many activist teachers, the journey of promoting equity in education is a lonely one.
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What We’re Reading This Week: February 28, 2020
A weekly sampling of articles, blogs and reports relevant to TT educators.
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Making Our Stance on Social Justice Education Explicit
What is the power of communities and organizations coming together to explicitly communicate a common social justice education message? It can grow our collective capacity to make positive change.
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Taking History Out of Context
There are three questions students of history should always ask: What’s the context?What’s the context?What’s the context? Yes, I know, it’s a play on the old real estate joke (location, location, location), but the importance of understanding how a quote or an event sits in terms of what’s happening around it cannot be overstated.