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Speak Up
You’re walking the halls, staying connected, setting high expectations and embracing teachable moments. There’s one more important step. Speak up and out against injustice.
August 27, 2012
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Its Seat Is In the Heart
In honor of the United Nations Decade for the Culture of Nonviolence, we offer practical ideas for making peace a priority in your classroom community.
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Captured Images
A Vermont artist brings students face-to-face with her enslaved ancestors.
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Section Two: When There's a Crisis
What Has Happened? A Latine student and an Asian student have an argument that escalates into screamed slurs and a physical scuffle, observed by more than 50 classmates. An opposing football team refuses to take the
August 27, 2012
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Jimmie Lee Jackson
This essay details Jimmie Lee Jackson’s involvement in the voting rights movement and his violent death at the hands of Alabama state troopers.
March 10, 2016
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A Supremely Historic Moment
As the first Black woman is appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, there are lessons we can all learn about intersectionality, representation and our essential role in eliminating obstacles for young people.
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Summer Violence and Educator Silence
One principal questions the value of educator conferences that focus on “student voice” without recognizing the social contexts in which voices struggle to be heard.
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Mary Church Terrell
In this lesson of the series, “Beyond Rosa Parks: Powerful Voices for Civil Rights and Social Justice,” students will read and analyze text from “The Progress of Colored Women,” a speech made by Mary Church Terrell in 1898. Terrell was the first president of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW), an organization that was formed in 1896 from the merger of several smaller women’s clubs, and was active during the period of Jim Crow segregation in the South.
May 11, 2012
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Gillette’s New Ad Asks: “Is Toxic Masculinity the Best a Man Can Get?”
A new ad has everyone talking about gender norms. Here’s how you can bring that conversation to your students.
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Podcast Professional Development
Earn professional development credit when you listen to episodes from any of our podcasts! Fill out a short form featuring an episode-specific question to receive a certificate. Teaching Hard History What we don’t know
September 17, 2021