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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's in a Mascot?
A 9th-grade English unit helps students analyze legacy behind Native American mascots.
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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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Educators’ and Students’ Rights During COVID-19
A children’s rights attorney and a policy analyst from the Southern Poverty Law Center explain educators’ rights to workplace safety, students’ rights to education access and what it might take to advocate for both.
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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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'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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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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What We’re Watching
Dim the lights and get ready to learn with these TT-approved films!
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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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Out of Auschwitz
Samuel Pisar, a survivor of Auschwitz, recounts his liberation at age 16 from the most notorious Nazi death camp.
July 5, 2014