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Expert Opinions—Students Speak About Bullying
When we talk about devoting so many minutes to each subject in a school day, we need to make time for students to communicate about what really matters to them.
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Countering Stereotype Threat
How can educators tackle stereotypes that negatively influence classroom performance? Here are some suggestions from the director of Not In Our School.
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Don’t Look Away From Garissa
I don’t have an answer to the question, “How should I talk to my students about Garissa?” But I have some real fears about the dangers of not contextualizing this incident.
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Complexities of Complexion…Revisited
This educator reflects on a blog she wrote for Teaching Tolerance in 2014—and finds herself confronting the same misperceptions from others about her culture and worldview.
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Tackling Implicit Bias
From Selma to Ferguson and beyond, implicit bias has been at play. But educators can take steps to understand this bias and move toward solutions.
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Confronting Students’ Islamophobia
What do you do when anti-bias teaching strategies are derailed by real, in-the-moment fears? See how one educator responded to Islamophobia in her classroom.
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President Obama's Address on the 50th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday
Obama's 2015 speech on the Edmund Pettus Bridge honors the anniversary of "Bloody Sunday," when hundreds of voting-rights activists were brutally attacked by state troopers as they began a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. President Obama reminds us of the spirit and struggle associated with the marchers in Selma, or any group of people meeting injustice.
March 11, 2015
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Supporting LGBTQ Youth in the Wake of Suicide
We all have a responsibility to educate, counsel, organize and demonstrate so that no LGBTQ youth feels life is not worth living.
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Hate in the Hallways
Recognizing the history of defamatory symbols can help schools see fewer of them.
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Literature
The First Coconut Tree
In this pourquoi tale, a mother living on one of the islands in the Pacific Islands, is mystified when she bears a round child with no arms and no legs, but she tenderly raises the child until one day he asks to be buried in the sand, where he can grow (into the first coconut tree) and every part of him can be useful.
January 5, 2015