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"Turn Beauty Inside Out Day" Winning Essays
These essays accompany the lesson "Beauty Is Skin Deep."
July 17, 2017
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July 17, 2017
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Ending Child Abuse At School
As a kid, I remember listening wide-eyed to my grandmother tell me about the “Dummy Room.” The Dummy Room was one of her first assignments as a young teacher in small-town Iowa in the 1930s. Like other Dummy Rooms across the country, it was the dumping ground for the school district’s hard cases.
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Ban? No, Teach the Topics.
Gender, sexuality and religion are common themes in challenged books of 2015. Rather than effectively ban these topics from the classroom, TT recommends teaching about them and offers student texts to do so.
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Toolkit for A Hand to Hold
As educators, we can never be sure of what we will face in our classrooms. This toolkit will help you and your colleagues think about how to be best prepared for your students’ needs.
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Toolkit for "It’s Report Card Time—and I Despise It"
This teacher dreads reducing her students to a few words on a progress report. So what would she rather tell them instead?
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Word Work
My Pile, Your Pile
My Pile, Your Pile is an interactive word game that increases students’ Tier Two and Tier Three vocabularies.
July 19, 2014
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Exploring Texts Through Read Alouds
Anchor Charts
An anchor chart is an artifact of classroom learning. Like an anchor, it holds students' and teachers' thoughts, ideas and processes in place. Anchor charts can be displayed as reminders of prior learning and built upon over multiple lessons.
July 13, 2014
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Hate at School: December 2018
Holiday cheer and a winter break didn’t prevent hate incidents from happening at school.