How My Muslim Students Made Me a Better Person
Among the baby pictures, reports on summer activities and other news reported by the many former students on Facebook, I saw this status update about a week ago: “… it’s good to see fear-mongers called out for spreading misinformation …”
New Orleans Schools Shut the Door on the Disabled
A new third-grader arrives at your school. He is blind. He is autistic. He is developmentally delayed.
How does your school deal with the special needs of this child?
Tell Us How You Teach About Immigration
In today’s overheated political climate, how do you teach about immigration?
Some kids belong to families of recent immigrants (or are immigrants themselves). Others had ancestors who immigrated long ago. Are you able to connect the experiences of these two groups? And what about students who bring stereotypes and anti-immigrant sentiments into the classroom? How do you deal with them?
Lessons from Grandma About the Holocaust
Last night, two children, Max and Sarah, vacationing at their grandparents’ home in Boca Raton, Florida, traveled far, far away from there. They landed in Piwniczna, a town small enough to be summed up in a single sentence on Wikipedia:
“Piwniczna-Zdrój [pivˈnit͡ʂna ˈzdrui̯] (until 1999 Piwniczna) is a town in Nowy Sacz County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland, near the border with Slovakia, with 5,744 inhabitants (2004).”
Anti-Gay Bias Shouldn’t Derail Sex Education
See if this educational goal for first-graders offends you:
“Understand human beings can love people of the same gender & people of another gender.”
