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Toolkit for "Closed for Business"
This toolkit distills information from “Closed for Business” into nine questions (to ask and answer) about school closures. Integrate these questions into your next discussion about education reform.
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Engaging School and District Administrators
When school and district leaders explicitly express support for their teachers and for honest histories, educators feel more encouraged to keep doing this important work.
November 21, 2023
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Prison Writings
When Leonard Peltier thinks of the massacre at Wounded Knee, he hears the screams of women and children. Although the vehicle for killing has changed, Peltier explains how American Indians are still being killed off in the modern day.
July 2, 2014
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Children Are a Rainforest of Potential
A conversation with Georgia educator Katie Rinderle, who was fired for reading a children’s book about acceptance.
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Let Día de los Muertos Stand on Its Own
This holiday, which is distinctly different from Halloween, presents a wonderful opportunity to foster empathy among students.
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Discussing "The Mental Health Issue" After Parkland
When talking with students about mass shootings, you can't avoid addressing mental health. This TT staffer offers recommendations for ways you can talk about mental health with your students—without adding to the stigma already in place.
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Birdsong guides a tribe home
“The desert-dwelling Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians were uprooted from their ancestral lands. For decades, they were cheated of the property rights deeded to them by the U.S. government, and then subject to restrictive deed provisions. Not until the 1980s were they able to develop their own land in Palm Springs, and only recently have they begun to restore the springs revered by their ancestors. Tribal council member Anthony J. Andreas III battles the severe mental health problems that afflict the traumatized tribe by reviving ancestral practices. Traditional Bird Songs and pottery help today’s youth draw strength from the tribe’s sources of spiritual resilience.”
June 27, 2019