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August 7, 2023

Whole-of-Community Resilience

Young person sitting in front of a laptop computer.

Helping young people build resilience against manipulative extremist narratives and conspiracy theories requires all adults in a young person’s trusted network to be equipped with the skills and knowledge to intervene.

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Bullying & Bias Rights & Activism

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July 6, 2022

Don’t Stop Talking About Gun Violence

A child's feet with sneakers on them stand in front of words that include protect, students, mass shooting, cries, brutality, activism, walkout and more etched in chalk on the ground.

We must push for more restrictive gun laws to change the cycle of mass shootings, collective outrage and minimal action.

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Rights & Activism

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September 5, 2017

DACA Decision Puts DREAMers Back in Limbo

Today, the White House and Justice Department potentially closed a door on some of the United States’ most vital and courageous individuals. As educators, this is not an issue we can ignore.

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Abraham Lincoln & Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind an American Friendship

This text explores the relationship between Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, two self-made men whose lives intersected near the end of America's Civil War.

Russell Freedman

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6-8 9-12

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Class

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History

July 10, 2017

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Participating in Digital Communities

This lesson aims to help students learn to safely and respectfully participate in different kinds of digital communities.

Grade Level

3-5

Subject

Digital Literacy

Reading & Language Arts

Social Studies

September 25, 2017

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Issue 37, Spring 2010

Unmaking Brown

Illustration of a boy being split in half, half black and half white

America’s schools are more segregated now than they were in the late 1960s.

Topic

Rights & Activism

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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.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

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Reading & Language Arts

Social Studies

History

May 11, 2012

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Issue 49, Spring 2015

Learning to Be "Good"

Colorful illustration of kids doing various good deeds

Can kindness be taught? Scientists say yes.

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Issue 51, Fall 2015

Toolkit for "Two Heads are Better Than One"

This toolkit provides five tools to help focus mentors’ and instructional coaches’ observations on the dynamics that help create equitable classrooms.

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Issue 12, Fall 1997

Musical Chairs

Booming Las Vegas schools struggle to make a place for everyone.

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