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Reflecting on Practice

Is your classroom a calm, relaxing day or a violent, destructive storm? Is it sunny, cloudy or rainy? Is it frigidly cold? Are you a calm, refreshing breeze or a tornado?

Professional Development Topic

Teacher Leadership

July 12, 2009

article

June 30, 2020

Anti-Racist Work in Schools: Are You in it for the Long Haul?

Empty desks in a classroom with a blackboard in the background.

In the wake of Black Lives Matter protests, educators and schools across the nation are planning anti-racist work. How will you ensure your school isn’t just going through the motions?

Topic

Rights & Activism

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Informational

Survey: Current Field Work, Spring, 1963

This Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) report from 1963 details voter registration work and police harassment in South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia and Arkansas.

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement

July 6, 2022

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Visual

The Magic Washer

Uncle Sam boots out a group of stereotypically depicted Chinese Americans

An 1886 advertisement for a laundry detergent called the Magic Washer shows Uncle Sam booting out a group of stereotypically depicted Chinese Americans.

Shober & Carqueville

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Immigration

Subject

Civics

History

September 3, 2015

publication

Politics is a Force Multiplier

In the 2016 Trump Effect reports, we reported that bullying had been politicized, with even young students latching on to political talking points and slogans as a way of isolating and intimidating others. This

April 23, 2019

article

Issue 27, Spring 2005

Caroline Is a Boy

Teaching Tolerance illustration a long hair student, with sad look, holds his own hands

The challenges faced by transgender and gender-noncomforming students are too often ignored.

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

article

July 21, 2014

A Humanitarian Crisis: Unaccompanied Children

Tens of thousands of unaccompanied children have fled to the United States. What does this mean for communities, including schools, across the country?

Topic

Immigration

professional development

Motivation

Motivated students want to learn and are less likely to be disruptive or disengage from the work of the classroom. Motivation stems from numerous factors: interest in the subject matter, perceptions of its usefulness

Professional Development Topic

Classroom Culture

July 18, 2017

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Literature

Saffron Dreams

Although her husband died in the September 11 attack, Arissa is targeted for being Muslim. In this excerpt, she is held up by a group of men who berate her and threaten to kill her until they realize she is pregnant.

Shaila Abdullah

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Religion

Subject

Civics

History

Geography

July 7, 2014

lesson

Birmingham 1963: Primary Documents

This lesson asks students to interrogate six historical documents that show differing opinions about the conflict in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Rights & Activism

Subject

Reading & Language Arts

Social Studies

History

February 15, 2012

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