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'What Has Happened to America?'
Klan groups frequently leave pamphlets on doorsteps and parked cars to spread their message of hate. A group calling itself the Bristol Knights distributed a flier in white Connecticut neighborhoods in the 1980s.
April 28, 2016
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Toolkit for “Lies My Bookshelf Told Me: Slavery in Children’s Literature”
Our online Teaching Hard History Text Library includes a wealth of primary and secondary source documents about slavery to share with students of all ages.
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Positive Behaviors
Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) is an approach to help students improve their difficult behavior. It's based on an understanding that teachers don't control students, but instead seek to support them in their own behavior change process.
July 12, 2009
July 8, 2014
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Jerrie Mock
Tamera Bryant relays the story of Jerrie Mock and her dream to fly an airplane around the world. In spite of naysayers, including her family, who tried to remind her that girls grow up to be wives and mothers, Jerrie followed her dream and became the first woman to fly an airplane around the world.
July 9, 2014
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Mary McLeod Bethune
In this lesson, students will read an excerpt of an interview given by Mary McLeod Bethune and will learn that she founded the Daytona National and Industrial School for Negro Girls (now Bethune-Cookman College) in 1904. Through close reading, they will explore and discuss connections between events from Bethune’s life experiences and their own lives, and connections between past and current events.
May 17, 2012
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Voting and Democracy Grants Roundup: High School
TT Voting and Democracy Grants fund projects that encourage students to become empowered advocates for voting in their communities. Here are a few of our favorite projects happening this fall in high schools across the country.
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Teach About Native American Women Leaders
Build students’ media literacy by helping them contextualize stories about women candidates—and particularly Native women candidates—during election season and beyond.
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Equity Work Should Start From the Top
Two former leaders of one of the nation’s largest school districts encourage their fellow school and district leaders to work for equity in their schools and share their expertise and recommendations.