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What We’re Reading This Week: November 18
A weekly sampling of articles, blogs and reports relevant to TT educators.
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From a Long Shot to a Mix Model School
Think Mix It Up can’t work at your school? This counselor at a school for students with a variety of special needs says it can.
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Portfolio Activity for “Game Changers”
Grades: 5-8 Subjects: Science and Health Categories: Diversity and inclusion; Disability The “new PE” emphasizes personalized fitness programs and cooperative rather than competitive games. How could this work in your
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Mental Illness Awareness Week
This Mental Illness Awareness Week, we call on educators to see their vital role in removing stigmas that surround mental health issues, normalizing open conversations and recognizing the unique needs of students with historically marginalized identities or invisible disabilities. With these resources, we hope you and your students can take steps toward a world where—like Max at the end of our story "Washed Away"—you feel a little less alone and more prepared to face tough times alongside people who care.
- Broken and Healing: Normalizing Mental Health Issues in Our Classrooms
- Black Minds Matter
- Washed Away
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Ending Child Abuse At School
As a kid, I remember listening wide-eyed to my grandmother tell me about the “Dummy Room.” The Dummy Room was one of her first assignments as a young teacher in small-town Iowa in the 1930s. Like other Dummy Rooms across the country, it was the dumping ground for the school district’s hard cases.
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What We’re Reading This Week: December 16
A weekly sampling of articles, blogs and reports relevant to TT educators.
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What We’re Reading This Week: March 24
A weekly sampling of articles, blogs and reports relevant to TT educators.
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Our Humanity Is Bound Together: Discussing the Holocaust
International Holocaust Remembrance Day is commemorated on January 27, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1945. We honor the memory of the 6 million Jews and the millions of Roma, Sinti, Slavs, disabled persons, LGBTQ+ individuals, political dissidents and others who were murdered in the Holocaust. And we encourage learning from the survivors as we reflect on the significance of this history.
- Acclaimed Documentary ‘One Survivor Remembers’ Urges All to Never Forget
- One Survivor Remembers
- ‘Hope, Despair and Memory’
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When the Bully is the Principal
Everyone is worried—rightfully—about what seems to be a cross-country epidemic of bullying. The problem may be nationwide, but the solution has been left to the 14,000 school districts and the 50 states. Because we all know that bullying in Oregon is a lot different from bullying in Georgia, right?
