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'They're Playing Indians.'
How to talk to kids about stereotypes on television. A take-home lesson for students' families.
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Controversial Subjects in the Classroom
Invariably, issues are raised in classrooms that bring charged responses from students. How can educators set the stage for safe, respectful dialogue and learning?
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An Open Letter to Teachers Everywhere
A look at an educator's struggle to reconcile ideology with reality in our nations' classrooms and schools.
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Vocabulary Rounds
This contextual redefinition strategy encourages students to use the structure and context of words to predict their meanings. Students arrive at the definition through exposure to increasingly rich clues.
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Write to the Source
Agree or Disagree
Agree or Disagree? asks students to demonstrate their argumentative and comparative writing skills.
July 19, 2014
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Too Young to Yearn to be Thin
Recently, after reading a story about a bike messenger in a big city to my kindergarteners, I asked the students if being a bike messenger was a job they might like. I also asked them to clarify why it would or would not be.
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If It Can Happen Here …
When election rhetoric threatened their district culture, this group of California teachers organized a “Teach In.”
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Reminding Students of America’s Diverse Beauty
This week as the 10th anniversary of 9/11 approaches, I plan to gather my third-, fourth- and fifth-graders around me. I will tell them, "Our country is a beautiful place." I’ll keep this in mind as I think of the moments when we were clearly afraid.
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Flight Plan
When this teacher asked newly-minted sixth-graders how they want to treat themselves, others and their communities during middle school, paper airplanes made for a creative way for these students to offer answers.