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Caring as a Path to College
An initiative to revamp college admissions criteria presents an opportunity for K-12 educators to highlight academic achievement and caring for others at the same time.
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Bias and Skepticism: How Far Is Too Far?
How do we help students fine-tune their skepticism so that it leads to knowledge-seeking and openness to new ideas?
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Repositioning Africa’s Place in the Classroom
This educator discusses the pedagogical frameworks and the educational tools for challenging common misconceptions about the African continent.
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The Key to Post-Truth Teaching: Epistemology and Knowledge
How students learn to know and understand knowledge is essential to teachers’ work in the “post-truth” era.
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The Alcatraz Proclamation: Background Sheet
This piece is to accompany The Alcatraz Proclamation: A Primary Document Activity
February 23, 2012
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Intervene With Mean - Part One
Not all kids need the same interventions. Check out part one of our three-part series for bullying interventions that can help the majority of students.
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The Place for Activism in English Class
Using activist memoirs can help students understand how people effected change in the past—and how young people can effect change now.
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The Zero Effect
As teachers, it is our job to set kids up to succeed, not to fail. Changing some of our grading practices is a good place to start.
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Diverting the Pipeline Happens in Shifts
The Departments of Education and Justice have taken steps to help schools divert the school-to-prison pipeline. How will your school respond?
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Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, & Cynthia Wesley
This essay explores the deadly Ku Klux Klan attack on the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. It details where and why the four victims—Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley—were in the basement of the church on that morning, and summarizes the sentiments expressed across the country following their deaths.
March 2, 2016