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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...