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An Act to Authorize the Manumission of Slaves (1782)

This act shows the ways in which Virginia regulated manumitting (freeing) of enslaved people and the subsequent race-based laws for freedpeople.

Virginia General Assembly

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Slavery

Subject

History

January 5, 2018

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Issue 36, Fall 2009

Learning to Roar

Irma Lucena and Carmelo Vega, with their sons, Mike Vega and Alex Vega.

Parents find grassroots power.

Topic

Rights & Activism

article

October 11, 2017

Heavy Topics, Strong Classrooms

teacher giving instruction to students in class

Our democracy desperately needs diverse voices to engage in mature dialogue if we are to ever find compassionate solutions to our common problems. Schools must be where young people learn to do this.

article

August 23, 2011

Bringing 9/11 Into the Classroom—10 Years Later

My son was a 16-year-old high school junior on 9/11/2001. He could see the twin towers burning a few miles across the harbor from his school in Staten Island, N.Y. Across the country, other students watched the images on television, either as they were happening or later, as they looped endlessly on cable news.

Topic

Bullying & Bias

article

May 4, 2015

Making “A Place in the Middle” in Every Classroom

Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Dean Hamer shares how his documentary A Place in the Middle, co-directed with Joe Wilson, can help students see the value of inclusion, the power of cultural heritage and their ability to create a more positive school climate.

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity Bullying & Bias

article

January 21, 2015

Supporting LGBTQ Youth in the Wake of Suicide

We all have a responsibility to educate, counsel, organize and demonstrate so that no LGBTQ youth feels life is not worth living.

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity Bullying & Bias

article

February 8, 2016

Let’s Talk About Lula

Class discussions about To Kill a Mockingbird typically focus on the book’s white protagonists. This brand-new TT lesson turns the lens by focusing on the perspective of one of the book’s African American characters.

Topic

Race & Ethnicity

article

March 8, 2016

Why Women’s History Month Matters in 2016

Women’s History Month is a crucial time to remind the nation and the world of women’s important work and the barriers that exist to full gender equality.

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

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Proclamation: To the Great White Father (November, 1969)

The announcement on November 20, 1969 from 89 American Indians – mostly students from colleges and universities – that they were taking over Alcatraz Island, set in motion what would become the longest occupation of a federal facility by Native Americans to date. This report aired a year later on NBC News, in December 1970, six months before the occupation ended.

American Indian Movement (AIM)

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Race & Ethnicity Rights & Activism

Subject

Civics

History

Economics

Geography

July 2, 2014

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Privacy and Security Online

Students will discuss basic guidelines for maintaining privacy and security online. To help them internalize these rules, students will illustrate what it would mean to follow each guideline.

Grade Level

3-5

Subject

Digital Literacy

Reading & Language Arts

Social Studies

September 25, 2017

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