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Issue 52, Spring 2016

Toolkit for "Empathy for the 'A'"

Empathy and academics need not be mutually exclusive. In fact, a focus on empathy can increase student achievement. This toolkit for “Empathy for the ‘A’” shows teachers how to build empathy into their practice with a few adjustments to the things they already do.

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Issue 52, Spring 2016

Toolkit for "Shifting Out of Neutral"

This toolkit for “Shifting Out of Neutral” focuses on historical thinking development through critical literacy and builds on author Jonathan Gold’s call for educators to acknowledge and teach about power and bias.

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Issue 52, Spring 2016

Toolkit for "The Ripple Effect"

This toolkit for "The Ripple Effect" couples two powerful YCteen stories with the rigorous literacy strategies and tasks from TT's classroom resources.

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Issue 52, Spring 2016

Toolkit for “Wanted: Playground Buddy”

This toolkit for “Wanted: Playground Buddy” provides suggestions and activities to help students and educators add a Buddy Bench to the playground and make their school more inclusive.

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Issue 52, Spring 2016

Toolkit for "Cracking the Code"

“Cracking the Code” looks at the representation of girls in computer science. This toolkit helps educators create an environment that welcomes all girls to participate in computer science and pursue careers in this field.

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December 15, 2015

Speak Truth To Power

Speak Truth To Power creates a new generation of students leaders who are not only aware of human rights abuses, but prepared to do something about them.

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Rights & Activism

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John Heffernan

Before joining Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, Heffernan was the director of the Genocide Prevention Initiative at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. As a senior investigator with Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), he led three investigations to the Darfur region of Sudan and was the lead author of PHR’s report, Assault on Survival. Previously, he served as the Chief of Party for the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs in Guyana. In 1995, Heffernan helped establish and run, as executive director, the Coalition for International Justice, a Washington, D.C.-based

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December 14, 2015

Islamophobia Undermines Religious Freedom

If you don’t teach your students about Islamophobia, someone else will. These resources can help you set the record straight about a major religion that’s currently under attack.

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Religion Bullying & Bias

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December 9, 2015

Let Black Students Be Kids: Down With 'Respectability'

We need to push back against the message that students’ intelligence and appearances are related.

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Race & Ethnicity

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December 8, 2015

'To Kill a Mockingbird' Doesn't Shock Students Anymore

When you teach this classic text, are your students surprised by the injustice portrayed in it? This teacher’s students aren’t—not anymore.

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Race & Ethnicity Rights & Activism

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