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Ding! Start Your Class off Right!
Bell ringers jump-start student learning and take the chaos out of the beginning of class.
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What Is This “Learning Plan”?
How is a Perspectives learning plan different from traditional lesson plans?
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Toolkit for Doing History in Buncombe County
Students can learn about local struggles for justice through primary sources. This toolkit will help you collaborate with staff at a local library or archive to locate primary sources that teach your students about their community’s history.
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Toolkit for "Book Smarts"
Educators can use classroom publishing to validate the experiences of all students and to introduce critical literacy. This toolkit provides writing prompts to help you bring out the best in your students’ writing.
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Oral Interviews
Students conduct interviews and record personal experiences focused on a specific theme. They synthesize and present the information as a drawing, poster, paragraph or bulletin board.
July 13, 2014
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Responding to the Read-Aloud Text
Resistant Reading
During resistant reading, students analyze the dominant reading of a text and “resist” it by engaging in alternative readings. Resistant readings scrutinize the beliefs and attitudes that typically go unexamined in a text, drawing attention to the gaps, silences and contradictions.
July 19, 2014
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What We’re Reading
The latest in culturally aware literature and resources for teachers of all grades.
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Empathy for the 'A'
Teaching students to care isn’t just good for classroom culture—it’s good for learning.
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Basic Strategies
Educators from all grade levels and all parts of the country emphasize this point: You must speak up against every bigoted and prejudiced remark, every time it happens.
July 30, 2012