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Using TDSi in Rural Schools
Rural educators face just as many challenges as urban colleagues when it comes to helping children of color. But there are tools to help them.
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Charles Person: Freedom Rider Encourages Others To Get On Board
For the youngest of the original Freedom Riders who boarded buses in 1961, the quest for justice continues.
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Maya Angelou
This lesson focuses on questions of identity as students read and analyze Angelou’s inspirational poem “Still I Rise” and apply its message to their own lives. Students learn how Maya Angelou overcame hardship and discrimination to find her own voice and to influence others to believe in themselves and use their voices for positive change.
May 3, 2012
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The Best of Our Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Resources
Supplement your lessons on Dr. King's words and actions with these resources.
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The Early Republic
In this lesson, students examine voting rights in the early years of the United States and the causes and effects of the first major expansion of voting rights, which took place in the late 1700s and first half of the 1800s. By the end of the lesson, students will be able to explain where various groups of Americans stood regarding the right to vote before the Civil War, and will hypothesize about what they expect happened next.
October 21, 2011
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Digital Literacy
Digital and Civic Literacy Skills The internet is an amazing tool for teaching and learning. But, before we can teach students to harness its power and become good citizens of the web, we need to understand the
September 25, 2017
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May 23, 2019
Hate at School: April 2019
As the end of the school year approaches, reports of hate and bias in U.S. schools haven’t slowed down.
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Lost Friends
A young boy travels with his grandmother to place a “Lost Friends” ad searching for his uncle who was sold by his enslaver and separated from his family before the Civil War.
February 19, 2020
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Segregation by Design
Our national understanding of segregation is incomplete unless we face the history of residential redlining. Richard Rothstein, author of 'Color of Law,' explains why.
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It’s Not “Just a Joke”
A recent news segment offers a great lesson in privilege and the dangerous social function of humor based on identity.