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Praise Helps Redefine Student Roles
This English teacher picked up a few tips for connecting with students. It’s all about how you speak.
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We Can’t Dismantle What We Can’t See: Teaching Concepts of Masculinity
“So, there aren’t any girls in the book?” Find out how an English teacher answered this student question—and fit the male-centered Lord of the Flies into a classroom focused on voices traditionally left in the margins.
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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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No Choice for Many Students
The law is touted as a way to provide "school choice," but in reality it discriminates against many impoverished families.
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Teaching Students About Confirmation Bias
Concerns about the impact of fake news are actually concerns about learning to know. That’s why teaching about confirmation bias is imperative.
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In Search of Balance
Teaching Tolerance offers tools to help teachers and students get through the grueling and seemingly unrewarding weeks of mandated testing.
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I fit the description...
In this blog post, Steve Locke—a college professor of 13 years—details being wrongfully detained by the police while walking to get lunch all because they believed he matched a description.
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Standing on the Side of Truth
Last spring, our high school performed The Crucible, Arthur Miller’s play about the Salem witch trials (also an allegory of the witch hunts of McCarthyism). It’s one of my favorite plays. Watching the performance, I was struck by the character of Reverend Hale.
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Toolkit for Under Attack
This toolkit provides resources and suggestions for educators who may be experiencing bullying at work or supporting someone who is. It also outlines a possible structure for creating a workplace civility task force within a school setting.
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Connecting With Students Through Dialogue
After learning an important lesson about student engagement as a classroom teacher, this teacher educator passed it on to her pre-service teachers: Focus on connecting with students versus trying to control them.