Playing digital games can help students learn about social justice issues. Explore with students the value of digital games they already play, and then work with colleagues to research additional games.
Susan Coryat has taught English in public high schools for 20 years. She most recently developed and teaches a "Contemporary Connected English Studies" course that focuses on marginalized voices and uses experiential learning at Perkiomen Valley High School in Pennsylvania.
TT Educator Grants fund projects that encourage educators to implement anti-bias education in their schools and classrooms. Learn how you can browse the new and expanding Grants Action Model directory to replicate these projects in your own school community.
Trauma-sensitive and trauma-informed schools are spreading around the country. But if they don’t start with how schools themselves can induce trauma, they won’t work.
A viral video of high school students and a Native elder in D.C.—and the responses that followed—shows why we need to introduce students to the concept of settler-colonialism.
“Mary Robinson, lawyer, human rights activist and feminist, redefined the scope of two important positions. Robinson was elected the first woman president of Ireland in 1990, serving until 1997. She took up the post of United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights from 1997 to 2002.”