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Four Strategies for Building Relationships With Students
Building relationships with students sometimes takes a back seat to achieving passing test scores. That doesn’t have to be the case, according to this sixth-grade teacher.
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Media Worth Binging On: Two Pro-social Examples
Many students are constantly tied to their phones. As educators, we can tap into that interest—and students’ curiosity and desire for entertainment—to show them gateways to a wider worldview.
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Countdown to January 20
The days leading up to the presidential inauguration hold excellent opportunities to teach about civic engagement and civility.
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Confronting Creepy Crawlies and Implicit Bias
Dealing with outbreaks of lice or bedbugs in the classroom presents a prime opportunity for elementary school educators to examine implicit bias.
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Helping Students Connect With Standing Rock
The Sioux Nation protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline is taking on greater significance each day. Don’t miss the opportunity to teach about history in the making.
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A Teacher Who Looks Like Me
A white educator reflects on this reality: Most teachers in the United States are white, which means that many children of color don’t have academic role models who look like them.
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You Spoke, We Listened
Readers talk coming out, teen dating violence and our Children’s March film.
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Seamless Teaching : Navigating the Inclusion Spectrum
Giving Gen Ed teachers the tools to realize the potential of inclusive classrooms.
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Cultural Responsiveness Starts with Real Caring
Culturally responsive teaching is really about building relationships and validating students. Ensuring the academic success of students takes care and a little tough love.
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Teaching Courage in a Postmodern World
Students need historic context to connect activism of the past to social issues in the present.