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Teach About Native American Women Leaders
Build students’ media literacy by helping them contextualize stories about women candidates—and particularly Native women candidates—during election season and beyond.
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Hate at School: September 2018
In September, hate incidents including racism, anti-Semitism, and anti-immigrant and anti-LGBTQ sentiment continued as school leaders across the United States struggled to address them.
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Deaf Culture
In her article, Paula Kluth takes care to distinguish between the deaf, Deaf, and hard of hearing communities. Both medical and cultural views on the different groups are discussed.
January 5, 2015
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Afro-Latina
In this spoken word piece, Elizabeth Acevedo speaks of her Afro-Latina heritage, recounting how she first rejected her roots and then learned to embrace them.
September 28, 2018
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Border and Identities
Investigate borders with these lesson ideas from the Smithsonian Institution Center for Cultural and Folklife Heritage.
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Who's In Your Classroom?
PD Café offers professional development activities to complete alone or with colleagues.
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Exploring Texts Through Read Alouds
Liberation Literature and Counter-narratives
This strategy exposes students to literature that places out-group identities at the center of the curriculum.
July 13, 2014
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Complexities of Complexion
By outward appearance, this writer looks white—but she doesn't see herself that way.
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Write to the Source
Point of View
Point of View asks students to demonstrate their narrative skills when applying different points of view in writing.
July 19, 2014
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Rita Moreno has the time of her life on stage and screen
In this interview, Rita Moreno shares short vignettes from her journey as the first Latino to win an Oscar, Tony, Emmy and Grammy.
August 22, 2016