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Issue 34, Fall 2008

The Building Blocks of Positive Behavior

Classroom photo with students raising hands

Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) offers a schoolwide approach to improving student behavior.

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Issue 30, Fall 2006

Learning Lakota

Chris Mosner's class starts every day with a drum circle.

For a high school on South Dakota's Rosebud Reservation, culturally responsive curriculum may be the best antidote to the violence, poverty and growing cultural disconnect hindering student success.

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Issue 61, Spring 2019

Carol Anderson on Voter Suppression: A Q&A with the Author of ‘One Person, No Vote’

Professor and author Carol Anderson explains how voter suppression remains alive and well—and how it’s hurting us all.

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Daniel Osborn, Ed.D. is a history instructor at Dean College. He is a Returned Peace Corps volunteer who served in Jordan. His scholarly background is in Middle Eastern and Jewish History and his research explores the relationship between historical narrative construction, collective identity formation, and the portrayal of subaltern communities in social studies textbooks and classroom discourse. He is the author of Representing the Middle East and Africa in Social Studies Education: Teacher Discourse and Otherness.

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Selena A. Carrión

Selena A. Carrión is an ELA teacher, library media specialist, activist and writer currently working in the New York City Public Schools. Her work focuses on the advancement of anti-racist teaching practices, historically responsive literacy instruction, multimodal approaches to learning using media for social change, the mobilization of parents of color and the equitable transformation of our schools. She is a current parent and former student of the NYC Public Schools. As a literacy teacher, she is passionate about teaching through an anti-racist lens, working to help build and grow the

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March 8, 2018

Destigmatizing Privilege

Privilege can be a sticky subject, but this teacher introduces it to her fourth-graders as a tool they can use to elevate others.

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May 31, 2018

Tell Us About Your Day: The Significance of a Closing Circle

One elementary teacher explains how she uses closing circles to create a safe, reflective space for students to discuss their days with their classmates and leave school knowing that others care.

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Bullying & Bias Rights & Activism

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From Log Cabin to the Pulpit, or, Fifteen Years in Slavery

In this excerpt, Robinson describes "the four classes of men" who played pivotal roles in the system of chattel slavery.

Reverend William H. Robinson

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6-8 9-12

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Slavery

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History

December 15, 2017

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Woman Warrior

Brittany Iron competes in the Crow Nation’s Ultimate Warrior Challenge. The Challenge spurs her to master canoeing, running, and riding. The race teaches the Native values of commitment and perseverance. To participate, she has to commit to abstain from drugs and alcohol. The Crow are reimagining what it means to be a warrior. They are now drawing on traditional rituals to combat the effects of centuries of stigma and trauma, and to rebuild the tribe’s sense of pride and purpose.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

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3-5

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Class Gender & Sexual Identity

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History

June 18, 2019

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Issue 66, Spring 2021

It Was Always About Control

Illustration of different color desk chairs.

When schools closed due to coronavirus, educators and students made big changes to adapt to distance learning. Too many policies didn’t change at all.

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