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Speak Out for Understanding
Students with learning disabilities create a documentary film to share their wisdom.
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We Beasts, We Badasses: Lessons From the Olympics
In a world where some people still attempt to break women—athletes or not—into piecemeal parts, we must view ourselves and all our students as unique, whole individuals.
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Third-Graders Teach Tolerance
This teacher was worried about explaining her crutches to her class, but the third-graders taught her a lesson in acceptance.
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Common Ground
Research tells us that children’s engagement with natural environments offers a host of benefits. Schools can capitalize on this knowledge.
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So Fake
A statement from a student about people “being fake” prompted this afterschool educator to talk openly about her own experiences with friendship and identity.
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Word Work
Word Wall
A word wall is an organized display of vocabulary words drawn from central texts students are reading.
July 19, 2014
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Catching Kids Before They Sink
Laura Sofen’s inner angry teenager guides her each day as a teacher.
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Fannie Lou Hamer’s Testimony at the 1964 Democratic Convention (Transcript)
This piece is to accompany Unsung Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement and African Americans Face and Fight Obstacles to Voting.Watch the video here.When a group of African-American delegates from Mississippi demanded to be seated at the 1964 Democratic Convention in Atlantic City, the moving testimony by Fannie Lou Hamer made this former sharecropper a national spokeswoman for civil rights overnight.
October 26, 2011
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Growing Up with Abriendo Puertas
This piece accompanies the Teaching Tolerance article "Opening Doors on the Border."