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Congrats to This Year’s Mix It Up Model Schools!
Over 3,000 schools across the country challenged social boundaries on national Mix It Up at Lunch Day last November. Some schools took it to the next level by actively embracing respect and inclusiveness as core values of their school communities.
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Guess the Covered Word
Guess the Covered Word challenges students’ vocabularies and reading comprehension by requiring them to deduce words redacted from a text.
July 19, 2014
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Raspberries! An American Tale of Cooperation
With only one wing, the little bird cannot fly to the raspberry patch with her brothers. As luck would have it, she meets a little dog, a chipmunk, and a frog who work together to get them all across the street to the raspberry patch.
July 2, 2014
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Action Steps for Educators to Take to Stop Bullying
Use this chart as a starting point to help participants in your staff training identify specific actions they can take.
August 13, 2010
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Arrowwood Elementary School Mixes It Up on YouTube!
As part of Mix it Up at Lunch Day, Arrowwood Elementary School in Highlands Ranch, Colorado provided students with a series of ice-breakers to spice up the conversation and help create new friendships. The Douglas County School District’s video of the event shows what Mix It Up is all about!
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Toolkit for "Begin Within"
To facilitate difficult conversations with your students, equip them with strategies they can use to persevere when emotions run high. Let’s Talk, the publication from which “Begin Within” was excerpted, includes several pedagogical approaches to help students learn to sit with their discomfort and to moderate it over time.
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Resources for the New Year!
These Perspectives for a Diverse America resources for all grades are sure to help you get the new semester off to a good start.