teaching strategy
Community Inquiry
Value Lines
Students take a stance on a topic related to the central text and listen while classmates explain their stances.
July 13, 2014
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teaching strategy
Community Inquiry
Affirmation Interview
During Affirmation Interview, students practice verbal and non-verbal communication in the roles of “interviewer” and “interviewee.”
July 13, 2014
article
Let’s Hear It for Youth Activists!
I am in awe of young people. Today, for example, I read about a group of teens in Louisville, Ky. who continued to speak on LGBT issues. High school students from duPont Manual High School were censored for writing about gay issues, but they refused to let their voices be silenced. They decided to run an underground paper, The Red Pen, and won the annual Courage in Student Journalism Award.
teaching strategy
Community Inquiry
Fishbowl
Fishbowl is a strategy for organizing medium- to large-group discussions. Students are separated into an inner and outer circle. In the inner circle, or fishbowl, students have a discussion; students in the outer circle listen to the discussion and take notes.
July 13, 2014
student task
Do Something
Act Up! Drama for Justice
Students write and perform a skit or monologue that brings awareness to a specific issue addressed in the text.
July 13, 2014
student task
Do Something
Puppet Show
Students design, create and perform a puppet show to teach others about a diversity, anti-bias or social justice theme from the central text.
July 13, 2014
article
Drawing on Justice
The Comic Book Project encourages students to address social issues in their lives and schools with art and creativity.
publication
The Dynamic
“I discovered that the more I speak up, the more I hear [my students] speaking up, too.”
July 30, 2012
teaching strategy
Close and Critical Reading
Annolighting
“Annolighting” (annotating and highlighting) shows students how to identify critical information in a text during close reading. Students learn to annotate text, highlight important facts and summarize what they have read to capture main ideas, concepts and details.
July 19, 2014
article
"We Don't Use That Language Anymore"
A leadership program helps Maine students confront the culture of verbal abuse.