July 17, 2017
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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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Chapter 1: Editorials
An excerpt from A Whale Hunt, How a Native-American Village Did What No One Thought It Could by Robert Sullivan. This piece is to accompany "Holding Onto Heritage: Native Whale Hunts & Diversity" lesson.
July 14, 2017
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A Second Revolution
This piece is to accompany the Teaching Tolerance article "Getting the Civil War Right." Some historians have called the period of Reconstruction that followed the Civil War the "second American Revolution" and the 13th
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Against the Grain
This piece is to accompany James Loewen's feature story " Getting the Civil War Right." Recently I spent two years at the Smithsonian Institution surveying 12 popular American history textbooks, learning how teachers use
July 12, 2017
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Viewing Student Data Through an Intersectional Lens
Seeing students’ multiple identity layers and weaving them into the curriculum are both important ways to apply the concept of intersectionality in practice. Another key way to do this is to take a deep look at the
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Holocaust Survivor Inspires Healing
This piece accompanies the feature story " Voices of Columbine." Holocaust survivor Gerda Klein, known for her work to reduce bigotry and hunger through tolerance-based education, drew from her own painful history to
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Art Fosters Healing
This reflection accompanies the feature story " Voices of Columbine." Upon hearing of the Columbine High School tragedy, Virginia Wright-Frierson was affected as a mother and an artist. Further, her cousin, Ellin Hayes
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Reef For All
This reflection accompanies the feature story " Voices of Columbine." Columbine High School English teacher Jason Webb took an uncommon approach in coping with emotional repercussions following the 1999 tragedy. "Shortly