Jeff Sapp

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Teaching As A Subversive Act	I teach language arts to new teachers at a state university in the greater Los Angeles area. I’ve been teaching for 27 years, have presented hundreds...
Speaking Kindness in Democratic Classrooms	Framework For educators who hope to create a democratic classroom, one of the first steps is to co-create classroom rules with students. This lesson...
Place as a Mirror of Self and Community	Framework We all come from somewhere. Place is prominent in all of our lives, whether it’s the place we sleep, the home we reside in, the street we...

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Story Corner	Once upon a time there was a very clever boy. Nearby was a village he decided to visit. Just outside that village he came upon a crowd of people...
Story Corner	Now what I'm about to tell you is true. Once upon a time in the deep Appalachian woods was a little old wildcat who thought he was the best critter...
Rigor + Support = Success	According to the Children's Defense Fund, 17.6 percent of this nation's children live in poverty -- about one of every six children. The numbers are...
Learning from the 'Love Mail'	Whenever we get hate mail, which is often, it gets sent around to everyone in our department. Whoever gets it forwards it to the others, and in the...
How School Taught Me I Was Poor	"You're poor, white trash," Danny hissed as he sashayed by me on the dusty, pebble-filled playground at first recess. I started to cry, and I...
Cooperative Learning	Robert Williams, principal of Lincoln Elementary School in Long Beach, Calif., has rock-star appeal as he walks across campus. He knows most every...

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Gay Children’s Books	I teach classes on children’s literature at a university in California. I always say that, although I’ve been teaching now for 30 years, what I...

Teaching Tolerance