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Advice From the Experts
TT answers your tough questions. This time, we discuss teaching black history and honoring your and your students’ identities.
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What Is Our Collective Responsibility When We Uncover Honest History?
Local history advocates say preservation, education and healing should include community redevelopment and respecting the agency of descendants of enslaved people.
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'Because I Had a Turban'
In almost every public school in the United States, attitudes and behaviors in the classroom presume an unacknowledged, yet pervasive, Christian norm. How does this affect students who are not Christian?
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What's in a Mascot?
A 9th-grade English unit helps students analyze legacy behind Native American mascots.
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Toolkit for “We Are Our Ancestors' Wildest Dreams”
Want to take these teachers’ advice? Educate yourself on the deep and complex history of American slavery and how it shaped the American institutions and beliefs about race.
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Teaching Teachers: PD To Improve Student Achievement
"What matters most is what teachers learn." Overview Good teachers form the foundation of good schools, and improving teachers’ skills and knowledge is one of the most important investments of time and money that local
June 30, 2017
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STEM at Work
In this lesson, students explore the varied work of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians, and discuss character traits common to all of them. Students meet a diverse group of scientists—inventors, problem-solvers and those who explain the world around us.
April 18, 2016
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The Resurgence of Hate
The purpose of this activity is to take a look at one of the most famous hate groups, try to understand why its members believe the way they do and learn what can be done to stop hate groups from returning to their historic levels of power and influence.
January 11, 2010
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Enslaved People in the War
These images show some of the many African Americans who fought or worked for the Union Army in the Civil War.
January 28, 2020