professional development
How to ‘Roar’
Tips for using grassroots organizing to engage your school’s parents.
August 24, 2009
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Toolkit for 'Meeting Mathew'
This Teaching Tolerance magazine piece leads readers through the process of planning and conducting a disclosure meeting as a way of helping students relate to a peer with a hidden disability. Before doing that, however
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Teaching MLK With the Social Justice Standards
Too often, lesson plans surrounding Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy fail to move beyond “I Have a Dream.” These classroom suggestions acknowledge the depth and complexity of the movement he helped to lead.
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Visual
Signs behind the bar, in Birney, Montana
This photograph, from 1941, was taken by Marion Post Wolcott in Birney, Montana.
February 27, 2017
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"I've never experienced white guilt."
A black teacher reflects on helping her white students explore their racial identities.
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Social Justice Standards | Understanding Justice
This professional development addresses the Justice domain.
April 17, 2014
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Home Visits Offer Insight, Connection
A home visit is a valuable way to build relationships with students and engage their families.
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Literature
Seventeen Syllables
Rosie's mother and father did not marry out of love, and her mother writes haiku as an escape. After entering a contest, a man comes to deliver her prize—a framed picture. Angered by this intrusion, Rosie's father destroys the picture. In her anguish, Rosie's mother explains her marriage to her daughter.
July 7, 2014
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Seven Texts to Teach Instead of 'Ceremony'
What’s your go-to text by an indigenous author? This educator calls attention to the limitations of using only Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko, and offers a detailed list of suggested additional readings.
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What We're Watching
Dim the lights and get ready to learn with these TT-approved films!