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May 3, 2018

Why We Walked: A Letter to Our Future Educators

Colorado Teacher Walkout | Photo by Hayley Breden

This Colorado teacher wants future educators to know that educators in her state aren’t walking out because they hate their jobs. They’re walking out because they love them.

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Rights & Activism

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May 7, 2018

Announcing Our Diverse Democracy Grants

We’re excited to announce that this summer, TT is funding projects that will help students become empowered voting advocates in their communities.

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 59, Summer 2018

Toolkit for “Be Your Own Historian”

Teach and learn about the Reconstruction era with resources—including videos, texts, lessons and a unit plan—from Facing History and Ourselves.

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July 7, 2009

By Virtue of Being Human: A Human Rights Questionnaire

"Test the waters" of human rights awareness with your class before introducing them to the framework by using the following questionnaire.

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Issue 59, Summer 2018

The Opioid Crisis

Addiction can suffocate a community—especially its youngest members. But schools that employ trauma-informed practices are giving childhood victims of the opioid epidemic a fighting chance.

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Issue 59, Summer 2018

Toolkit for ‘The Opioid Crisis’ and Trauma-Sensitive Practices

Students who experience trauma often exhibit behaviors we associate with defiance, indifference or attention-deficit disorders. This toolkit and additional resources can help us overcome those assumptions and respond to such behaviors in trauma-sensitive ways.

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May 9, 2018

Appreciation for My Fellow Teachers

Teacher Appreciation | Tetra Images/Dissolve | Teaching Tolerance

This Teacher Appreciation Week, educator Jamilah Pitts shares some love for you, her fellow teachers.

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May 10, 2018

Classroom Mindfulness in Real Life: A Portrait

TT Grants coordinator Jey Ehrenhalt talked with elementary educator Kristie Burnett, who models mindfulness and brings meditative practices to the students in her third-grade classroom in upstate New York.

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Danny Cross

Danny Cross is a freelance writer and editor with 10 years' experience at Cincinnati's alternative newsweekly, CityBeat, where he was most recently editor in chief. Danny holds a bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of Cincinnati and a master's in journalism from the University of Oregon. He is slated to teach his first journalism class as an adjunct instructor at the University of Cincinnati this fall.

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Issue 59, Summer 2018

Integrating for Equity

Educators, activists and academics are raising the bar when it comes to achieving truly integrated schools.

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