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Classroom Mindfulness in Real Life: A Portrait
TT Grants coordinator Jey Ehrenhalt talked with elementary educator Kristie Burnett, who models mindfulness and brings meditative practices to the students in her third-grade classroom in upstate New York.
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Appreciation for My Fellow Teachers
This Teacher Appreciation Week, educator Jamilah Pitts shares some love for you, her fellow teachers.
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Toolkit for ‘The Opioid Crisis’ and Trauma-Sensitive Practices
Students who experience trauma often exhibit behaviors we associate with defiance, indifference or attention-deficit disorders. This toolkit and additional resources can help us overcome those assumptions and respond to such behaviors in trauma-sensitive ways.
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The Opioid Crisis
Addiction can suffocate a community—especially its youngest members. But schools that employ trauma-informed practices are giving childhood victims of the opioid epidemic a fighting chance.
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Access for All
With the help of a Teaching Tolerance Educator Grant, this teacher created a space where DeafBlind students could be themselves and teach the larger school community about DeafBlindness.
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(In)Visible Identity
Sikhs have been in the United States for more than 125 years, but our collective lack of knowledge about this religious group is leaving Sikh students vulnerable.
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Toolkit for “Be Your Own Historian”
Teach and learn about the Reconstruction era with resources—including videos, texts, lessons and a unit plan—from Facing History and Ourselves.
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Announcing Our Diverse Democracy Grants
We’re excited to announce that this summer, TT is funding projects that will help students become empowered voting advocates in their communities.
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Why We Walked: A Letter to Our Future Educators
This Colorado teacher wants future educators to know that educators in her state aren’t walking out because they hate their jobs. They’re walking out because they love them.