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Welcome Aboard, Advisory Board!
We’re happy to introduce the educators who will serve on our advisory board for the next two years!
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Announcing the 2012 Mix It Up at Lunch Model Schools
Teaching Tolerance has named 77 schools—25 more than last year—from across the country as Mix It Up Model Schools for their exemplary efforts to foster respect and understanding among their students and throughout their campuses during the 2011-12 school year.
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Close and Critical Reading
GIST
Generating Interactions between Schemata and Texts (GIST) is a summarization procedure that helps students digest complex texts by requiring contextual word learning. GIST explicitly combines the most important words with reading and writing to comprehend complex texts.
July 19, 2014
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Community Inquiry
Say Something
A comprehension strategy during which student take turns reading aloud to each other, stopping occasionally to comment on the text.
July 13, 2014
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Do Something
Consuming and Creating Political Art
Students examine the history of political art. They then create their own murals, political cartoons or posters, demonstrating an understanding of social justice issues.
July 13, 2014
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Josh, Brandon and the Grumpy Old Man
Josh is annoyed with his grumpy neighbor, until a family member helps him find compassion.
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Community Inquiry
Critical Listening Guide
A guide to help students interpret, analyze and evaluate information encountered in a variety of media formats. Use this guide with the spoken and performed texts included in the Perspectives anthology.
July 13, 2014
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Word Work
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.
July 19, 2014