The removal of Confederate statues around the United States can prompt discussions in the classroom over the nature of history and how we should remember our country’s past.
This toolkit for “With and About” provides resources to assist educators in designing and delivering more culturally relevant and responsive instruction to and about American Indian peoples.
This toolkit for “Walking Undocumented” highlights a handful of TT classroom materials for teaching about immigrant students, including those who may be undocumented or from mixed-status families.
This toolkit for “A Case for Acculturation” offers some PD and classroom strategies aimed to help immigrant students feel welcome, valued and safe at school.
Matt is a freelance writer and editor in Healdsburg, California. He has penned pieces for numerous publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, TIME, Newsweek, Entrepreneur, AFAR, Travel + Leisure and Sunset. He is also involved with anti-hate journalism project 500 Pens. Learn more about him at whalehead.com.
The distrust between the Jewish community and African-American community in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn in the 1990s reached an all-time high when a runaway car struck two children.
“When Mormons settled in Missouri in the 1830s, local residents found Mormon beliefs and practices not simply strange, but wrong. … The Mormons, the Missouri governor declared, must be removed—if not by expulsion, then by extermination.”