Bookmark This PageSave article Issue 47, Summer 2014 Ed Café Practices that honor student identities, build intergroup awareness and support diverse learning styles.
Bookmark This PageSave article June 24, 2014 Freedom Wasn’t Free in ’64—and It Isn’t Free Now ‘Freedom Summer,’ an American Experience film, highlights an overlooked but essential period in the civil rights movement. Topic Rights & Activism
Bookmark This PageSave article June 16, 2014 Practice Internal Nonviolence For this teacher, transforming her interactions with herself translates into the vision of peace she wants to teach in her classroom.
Bookmark This PageSave article June 16, 2014 Can I Say That? Can I Wear That? How much can teachers disclose about their personal religious and nonreligious beliefs to students? Topic Religion Rights & Activism
Bookmark This PageSave article June 12, 2014 Holding on to the Past is Holding on to Hope Stories from the past, like those of Freedom Summer, serve to remind us that change happens when everyday people create it. Topic Rights & Activism
Bookmark This PageSave article June 10, 2014 Building School Culture Where All Kids Feel Special In a world where competition awards few people on the backs of many, school awards can be redesigned to prioritize equity. Topic Bullying & Bias
Bookmark This PageSave article June 9, 2014 Defeating Sexism in Sports Culture The same stereotypes that hurt and limit girls can also hurt boys and any student who does not adhere to binary gender norms. Topic Gender & Sexual Identity
Bookmark This PageSave article June 6, 2014 Signing Off on the Year—Equitably Few of us really want to remember what we looked like in middle school, but nobody wants to remember what it felt like to be the kid who had nothing to sign on the last day of class. Topic Class
Bookmark This PageSave article June 5, 2014 Qualities of Innovative Educators It’s never too late to become who we want to be in the classroom.
Bookmark This PageSave article June 3, 2014 Crossing the Line Between Blue and Pink Unpacking the word “sissy” helped this teacher build awareness of stereotypes while creating safety for all students. Topic Gender & Sexual Identity