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Teaching Around the Script
Scripted curricula can limit teachers and hurt morale. But living social justice ideals in the classroom still imparts valuable lessons to students.
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Best Practices for Serving LGBTQ Students
With this guide, we hope to help teachers and school leaders make curriculum and policy decisions that include LGBTQ students and prepare all students to thrive in a diverse democracy.
July 3, 2022
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Extreme Prejudice
Join us and our friends from the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding for this one-hour webinar, and learn try-tomorrow strategies that can help you teach about extremism accurately, responsibly and safely.
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Children Are a Rainforest of Potential
A conversation with Georgia educator Katie Rinderle, who was fired for reading a children’s book about acceptance.
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Standing Up and Speaking Out About Gender
Sam Blanchard reminds us that no student is too young to learn to respect other people's identities.
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Missteps in Civic Engagement
This educator reflects on the importance of identifying missteps in civic engagement projects.
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Autism and the Midas of Metaphor
This writing teacher challenges the mistaken view that people on the autism spectrum lack emotion and empathy.
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Curriculum and Instruction
The topics and strategies in this section provide tools to help educators build students’ understanding of justice and develop skills to take action and participate in a diverse democracy.
May 23, 2023
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The First 100 Days
When a hard-fought election is over, how does everyone move forward? This illustrated story for grades 3–5 can help.
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To Teach a Complex Issue, Skip the K-W-L Chart
When teaching his seventh-graders about the Syrian refugee crisis, this teacher decided to step back and let his students immerse themselves in the topic.