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Teaching Strategies

Build literacy and social emotional skills while exploring meaningful texts. Unlike conventional or scripted lesson plans, these strategies allow you to select and combine vocabulary, reading, and speaking and listening

June 28, 2017

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Teach the Truth About American Slavery

August 23 is International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition. With blatant, nationwide attempts to keep truth-telling out of schools, it’s especially critical to teach the whole truth about American slavery. Use our Teaching Hard History framework, its accompanying online archives and databases, and this film to help you and your students dig deeper into lessons about the slave trade and its lasting effects, as well as an often-forgotten part of our nation’s history: Indigenous enslavement.

Teaching Hard History: American Slavery |Key Concepts Videos
Teaching Hard History: American Slavery
Teaching Hard History Online Archives and Databases

August 20, 2021

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Walking in Their Shoes: Using #BlackLivesMatter to Teach the Civil Rights Movement

Episode 16, Season 3 The civil rights movement offers critical context for understanding the systemic police violence, voter suppression efforts, ‘law and order’ rhetoric and criminalization of activism we see today. It

April 13, 2021

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January 23, 2023

Solidarity as Social and Emotional Safety

Five children leaning in toward the camera demonstrating community.

This model of social and emotional learning emphasizes mutual aid, restorative justice and safety by design.

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Class Rights & Activism

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Using Editorial Cartoons to Teach Social Justice

Using Editorial Cartoons to Teach Social Justice is a series of 14 lessons. Each lesson focuses on a contemporary social justice issue. These lessons are multidisciplinary and geared toward middle and high school students.

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6-8 9-12

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Issue 55, Spring 2017