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Being the Change: Lessons and Strategies to Teach Social Comprehension
Topics such as race, gender, politics, religion, and sexuality are part of our students’ lives, yet when these subjects are brought up at school teachers often struggle with how to respond. How do we create learning...
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From Inquiry to Action: Civic Engagement with Project-Based Learning in All Content Areas
“Students learn to be active and responsible citizens by actually seeking to promote change, rather than just being—supposedly—prepared to be leaders in the future.” —Steven Zemelman What really matters to your...
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Gender-Inclusive Schools
How to Affirm and Support Gender-Expansive Students Help gender-expansive students feel safe, included, and affirmed at school. As one of the most vulnerable student populations, gender-expansive youth need school policies and practices that focus on...
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Gender-Inclusive Schools: How to Affirm and Support Gender-Expansive Students
As one of the most vulnerable student populations, gender-expansive youth need school policies and practices that focus on their happiness, health, safety, and privacy. Schools and teachers need concrete, accessible strategies and tools for supporting...
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Humans Who Teach
Love. Love now. Love always. Time and lives are wasting. Humans Who Teach invites readers to explore the complicated humanity of those who teach, with a focus on how we have been socialized to accept the status quo, our very real fears in disrupting...
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I'm the Kind of Kid Who . . . Invitations That Support Learner Identity and Agency
A framework for introducing choice making in the classroom, through “invitations” that encourage students to find out who they are, how they learn, and what they need to thrive. “I’m the kind of kid who builds...
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Reading to Make a Difference: Using Literature to Help Students Speak Freely, Think Deeply, and Take Action
"This book is a gift to teachers who want to know how best to incorporate diverse literature into their classrooms. It translates rhetoric about diverse books into practical actions. Teachers will find it a valuable resource, full of examples of actual...
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Social Justice Talk: Strategies for Teaching Critical Awareness
We all have the intention of using our classroom to envision a better world, but what gets in our way? Our uncertainty about how to discuss implicit and systemic bias in our classrooms is one of the reasons we avoid this necessary work. In Social...
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Tough Talk, Tough Texts
Strategic reading, critical examination, and civil discourse aren’t just for college preparedness—they are life skills. In Tough Talk, Tough Texts Cindy O’Donnell-Allen shares small-group instruction whose goal is to give kids the...
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Trauma-Responsive Pedagogy: Teaching for Healing and Transformation
Trauma and adversity are increasingly common experiences for students and educators, with growing poverty, income inequality, social injustice, institutional inequity, and the global pandemic worsening the situation...
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We Got This: Equity, Access, and the Quest to Be Who Our Students Need Us to Be
“That’s the problem with you, Minor” a student huffed. “You want to make everything about reading or math. It’s not always about that. At school, you guys do everything except listen to me. Y’all want to use your...