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Expanding Expectations for Students
This teacher wanted to empower her female students through literature. She boosted all students’ reading skills and self-confidence in the process.
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Inspections
Medical and legal inspections were the first of many tests immigrants would have to pass on their arduous journey to establish lives in the United States.
July 7, 2014
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Toolkit for "With and About"
This toolkit for “With and About” provides resources to assist educators in designing and delivering more culturally relevant and responsive instruction to and about American Indian peoples.
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Advice From the Experts
TT answers your tough questions! This time, how to talk about Black Lives Matter in your classroom and how to protect LGBT students.
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Literature
What Is Talmud?: A Jewish tale set in medieval Germany
This story introduces the Talmud, an important book in the Jewish faith that contains the ideas and teachings from hundreds of rabbis. A father reads a story from the Talmud to his daughter and they talk about its meaning.
July 3, 2014
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Close and Critical Reading
Agree/Disagree Statements
Agree/disagree statements challenge students to think critically about their knowledge of a topic, theme or text. The strategy exposes students to the major ideas in a text before reading—engaging their thinking and motivating them to learn more. It also requires them to reconsider their original thinking after reading the text and to use textual evidence to support and explain their thinking.
July 19, 2014
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Political Discussion Belongs in Our Classroom
I was excited by my lesson plan about the presidential elections. I planned to help students research issues and form opinions by guiding them through a variety of perspectives. Then my student teacher asked a question that surprised me. “Do you ever have parents complain about elections being discussed in school?” he wanted to know. “Why would they?” I asked.
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Teaching Students to Be Advocates for Social Justice
A ZIP code shouldn’t determine the quality of a student’s education.
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Wangari Maathai
“In Kenya, a modern ‘Johnny Appleseed’ has initiated a successful program to counteract the alarming destruction of Africa’s forests.”
August 9, 2017
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Introduction to ‘Reading for Social Justice’
Late on a November afternoon in 2017, I got an email from a professional acquaintance telling me about an informal project in Boulder, Colorado. A group of parents, some of whom happened to also be professors and staff
October 16, 2019