article
Four Strategies for Building Relationships With Students
Building relationships with students sometimes takes a back seat to achieving passing test scores. That doesn’t have to be the case, according to this sixth-grade teacher.
2,921 Results
article
Back-to-School Dread?
Teachers often have mixed feelings as the new school year approaches, but one of the most common—and least talked about—is dread. Here’s what the TT Advisory Board had to say about it.
article
Helping Students Connect With Standing Rock
The Sioux Nation protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline is taking on greater significance each day. Don’t miss the opportunity to teach about history in the making.
article
How to Craft an Open Classroom
A teacher examines the intentionality that creates a safe and inclusive environment for LGBT students.
article
text
Informational
Declaration of Sentiments, Seneca Falls Conference, 1848
Abolitionists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott convened the first women’s rights convention in 1848 in Seneca Falls, N.Y. Their Declaration of Sentiments, modeled after the preamble to the Declaration of Independence, demanded the full rights of citizenship for women.
July 2, 2014
article
Toolkit for "Expelling Islamophobia"
This toolkit for “Expelling Islamophobia” outlines a six-step lesson plan using the short film American Muslims: Facts vs. Fiction. The purpose is to foster all students’ religious literacy and improve school climate for Muslim students and other vulnerable student groups.
article
Transforming Helplessness Into Hope With Writing
This blogger discusses the power of the pen to process tragic incidents, and she shares with readers her poem “(A)wake.”
text
Informational
To Fulfill These Rights
Lyndon B. Johnson delivered this commencement address to Howard University graduating students in 1965. Johnson recognizes the plight of African Americans and describes the kind of civil rights progress he would like to see as president.
July 7, 2014
text
Literature
An Angry Black Woman on the Subject of the Angry White Man
Jordan's poem takes on an sarcastic tone as she describes the duties, punishments, emotions and false promises endured by African Americans since slavery in response to Bill Clinton's description of affirmative action as "a psychologically difficult time for the so-called angry White man."
July 7, 2014