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Equity Matters: Engaging Families Through Home Visits

In the second Equity Matters webinar, educators will discuss family engagement as one of many keys to student success. Find out how to implement home visits as a way to effectively and positively interact with students, families and communities.

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Class

January 17, 2017

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Equity Matters: Understanding Equity Literacy

The final webinar in the Equity Matters series will address how to move from a deficit-based approach to an equity-literacy framework for meeting the needs of students and families experiencing poverty.

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Class

February 28, 2017

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June 7, 2017

Will This Solve School Segregation in NYC Schools?

New York City Schools revealed its much-anticipated plan for increasing diversity and access in its public schools. But some critics say it doesn’t go far enough or name the true issue at hand.

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Race & Ethnicity Class Rights & Activism

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Informational

In the City of Brotherly Love

“The Irish and the English share a long legacy of conflict.” And this conflict extended across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World as a wave of Catholic immigrants arrived in the United States in the 1820s.

Jim Carnes

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Religion Class Immigration Bullying & Bias Rights & Activism

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Civics

History

May 22, 2017

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Literature

Gloria and Rosa Make Beautiful Music

Teaching Tolerance illustration of young girls playing for an adult audience

Two friends who attend different schools in the same community learn that one of their schools has no instruments for their music program, while the other has multiple different kinds. They use their friendship and musical abilities to confront this inequity and try to bring about change.

Cynthia Levinson

Grade Level

K-2 3-5

Topic

Race & Ethnicity Class Rights & Activism

Subject

Civics

Economics

May 19, 2017

lesson

Sounds of Change

This lesson challenges students to analyze and to reflect on messages presented in songs — and to express their own views about important issues addressed in some songs.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Race & Ethnicity Class Gender & Sexual Identity Bullying & Bias Rights & Activism

April 26, 2017

article

April 25, 2017

Access to College in New York—and Beyond

The free college tuition movement is gaining some traction.

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Class

article

April 11, 2017

New Law Makes Lunchrooms Shame-Free Zones

New Mexico is leading the way in making school cafeterias more welcoming and equitable places.

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Class

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Visual

Percentage of People in Poverty (2015)

Percentage of people in poverty by state

This is a U.S. Census Bureau map of the U.S. population living in poverty as of 2015.

U.S. Census Bureau

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

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Class

Subject

Economics

Geography

April 3, 2017

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Visual

The Negro Motorist Green Book

A green book from the Jim Crow era containing safe places of business for black Americans

These images are from The Negro Motorist Green Book 1940 edition. The Green Book, published from 1936 – 1964, served as a guide for African Americans traveling around the country during the Jim Crow segregation era. To explore the complete issues visit the New York Public Library Digital Collections at https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/the-green-book#/?tab=ab…

William H. Green (editor)

Grade Level

3-5 6-8 9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement Race & Ethnicity Class Rights & Activism

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History

Economics

Geography

March 28, 2017

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