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Toolkit for "The New Sex Ed"
This toolkit for "The New Sex Ed" will help you assess the current state of sex education in your school and plan for ways to create a broader, more inclusive approach to teaching about sexuality.
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If It Can Happen Here …
When election rhetoric threatened their district culture, this group of California teachers organized a “Teach In.”
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Tips for Test Success
How teachers can help students get ready for test days
July 6, 2009
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Toolkit for The Gentle Catalyst
As adults and authority figures, teachers have power over their students. This toolkit is an “adult privilege” checklist teachers can use as a self-assessment tool to help them think about their own privilege in the classroom.
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Close and Critical Reading
Question-Answer Relationships (QAR)
QAR gives students practice questioning the text and identifying literal and inferential questions. Students learn to find different types of evidence and to rely on their own interpretation when doing close reading.
July 19, 2014
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Word Work
Vocabulary Frames
Students use this tool to identify a word’s meaning, its parts and its opposite. After organizing the information on an illustrated flashcard, students practice using the word in a sentence.
July 19, 2014
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When Teachers Read the World
A teacher book group dedicated to reading diverse literature for young people and adults can foster cultural competence and support anti-bias teaching.
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Close and Critical Reading
GIST
Generating Interactions between Schemata and Texts (GIST) is a summarization procedure that helps students digest complex texts by requiring contextual word learning. GIST explicitly combines the most important words with reading and writing to comprehend complex texts.
July 19, 2014
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Close and Critical Reading
Shared Reading
Shared reading combines aspects of guided reading and read-aloud strategies. During shared reading, a teacher or proficient student reads the text aloud, pausing at pre-selected moments to discuss content and analyze the text. This strategy facilitates close reading of a complex text in small or whole group settings.
July 19, 2014
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Word Work
Vocabulary Prediction Chart
Students predict the meanings of vocabulary words before reading and confirm the accuracy of their predictions during and after reading. Students identify context clues from the text and revise their definitions accordingly.
July 19, 2014