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student task
Write to the Source
Point of View
Point of View asks students to demonstrate their narrative skills when applying different points of view in writing.
July 19, 2014
publication
Collaboration and Building Alliances
Building alliances is about working together, giving and receiving support, and creating a sounding board for social justice planning.
May 26, 2023
publication
Inclusion of Community Wisdom
Partnerships with community organizations can help extend classroom activities, provide additional support for students’ needs and add new perspectives to teaching material—all while sending the message that communities are valuable learning resources.
May 26, 2023
professional development
Social Justice Standards
Social Justice Standards: The Teaching Tolerance Anti-bias Framework is a set of 20 anchor standards and 80 grade-level outcomes organized into four domains—Identity, Diversity, Justice and Action—that reflect the desired impact of successful anti-bias and multicultural education on student personal and social development. The standards provide a common language and organizational structure: Teachers can use them to guide curriculum development, and administrators can use them to make schools more just, equitable and safe.
April 17, 2014
article
A Call for Anti-Bias Education
To develop the next generation of civic leaders, educate children early and in age-appropriate ways about their identities and key concepts about race.
article
Classic Invisibility
Just because a bookshelf is full of "classics" doesn't mean it holds universal life lessons.
article
Moving Toward Allyship: Mizzou as an Example
Allyship cannot involve checklists. According to this white educator, “The walk—the movement toward allyship—is ongoing.”
publication
Methods Courses
Building on what students have learned in foundations courses, methods courses tend to focus more closely on processes and procedures for teaching specific student populations or for teaching specific disciplines. This
October 24, 2018
article
Race Conversation Must Go Deeper
When I was in fifth grade and new to suburbia, my teacher introduced the concepts of racism, civil rights and fairness. And she began the task of helping 10-years olds—all of us white—learn how to talk about race in constructive ways. I’d moved from a gritty urban neighborhood where whites, blacks and Puerto Ricans lived together rather warily. My parents maintained a chilly silence on the issue of race, although they forbade racial epithets; on the street I heard plenty. In this place, the black kids came mostly from the projects, the Puerto Ricans lived in apartments and the better-off among the white families might have an entire house. I knew that race divided.