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'American Sabor': A Bilingual, Multicultural Literacy Unit
A middle school teacher shares her innovative approach to using a bilingual multicultural resource.
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Among Family
Among participants in our roundtable discussions, family moments represented some of the greatest difficulties.
July 17, 2009
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Analyzing How Words Communicate Bias
This lesson, part of the Digital Literacy series, focuses on teaching students to identify how writers can reveal their biases through their word choice and tone. Students will identify “charged” words that communicate a point of view. Students will understand how writers communicate a point of view implicitly by writing their own charged news stories.
September 12, 2017
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Andrew Jackson "Indian Removal" Message
This is the transcript of “On Indian Removal,” a message presented by President Andrew Jackson to Congress on December 6, 1830. In this address, Jackson makes the case for the policy set forth in the Indian Removal Act.
July 7, 2014
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If Anger Were The Problem
A domestic violence counselor reflects on recent assaults in our schools.
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An Angry Black Woman on the Subject of the Angry White Man
Jordan's poem takes on an sarcastic tone as she describes the duties, punishments, emotions and false promises endured by African Americans since slavery in response to Bill Clinton's description of affirmative action as "a psychologically difficult time for the so-called angry White man."
July 7, 2014
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Any Small Act of Kindness
Sara Kimmel has made her library—and her school—a nurturing, inclusive environment.
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Announcing Our Newest Curriculum: ‘Teaching the Civil Rights Movement’
If young people are to make the vision of a just and peaceful world a reality, we must give them the tools to build a strong multiracial democracy—and those tools include an accurate, comprehensive and inclusive history of the United States. We are thrilled to introduce Teaching the Civil Rights Movement, our newest curriculum, which begins in 1877 with Reconstruction and continues the narrative of the movement for equality and civil rights to the present. At this critical moment in which states and districts are attempting to censor discussions of race and racism in U.S.
- Teaching the Civil Rights Movement
- Teaching Hard History: American Slavery
- ‘Teaching Hard History’ Podcast
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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.
