Christopher Greenslate

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Christopher Greenslate is a humanities teacher at High Tech High School in San Diego, California. Known for both his work as a Social Justice and Journalism educator, he has advised over 200 student activist projects over the last few years and is the co-author of "On a Dollar a Day: One Couple's Unlikely Adventures in Eating in America" which focuses on issues of food justice. His writing has been published by Green Teacher magazine and The New York Times, and he is currently serving on the Board of Advisors at the Institute for Humane Education.


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Wearing Blue to Fight Bullies As I sat down to eat with a couple of my colleagues I noticed something unusual for lunchtime: My classroom was slowly filling with students....
What to Expect on Mix It Up Day I arrived to school ready for our morning staff meeting and took a seat among my colleagues. But today was different. There were about 30 student...
Learning Tolerance As We Teach It “Will we be learning history from a biblical or counter-biblical perspective?” James asked. I could see an intense honesty in his eyes, one...
Unpacking Sexism After Lunch As my 10th-grade students came back from lunch, it was clear that a few of my more squirrely young men needed time to readjust to the ways of a...
Coming Out and Coming Together Walking into class that September morning, I had no idea that one of my students would come out about her sexuality during the course of a class...