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Making “A Place in the Middle” in Every Classroom
Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Dean Hamer shares how his documentary A Place in the Middle, co-directed with Joe Wilson, can help students see the value of inclusion, the power of cultural heritage and their ability to create a more positive school climate.
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Heritage Months: Hard to Handle?
Heritage months offer opportunities to model yearlong inclusive teaching practices.
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Believe It or Not
Four ways to include religiously unaffiliated students in classroom content about religion.
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How Does the TT Community Teach Thanksgiving?
As you consider addressing Thanksgiving in your classroom, the approaches of the educators in our community offer great places to start.
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My Name was Hussein
Hussein, the narrator of My Name Was Hussein, lives in Bulgaria. His Muslim family takes great pride in their religion and traditions. But soldiers soon arrive in their village and force all of the Muslims to adopt Christian names, thereby inhibiting their freedom and identities.
July 7, 2014
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What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” was a speech given by abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass on July 5, 1852, in Rochester, N.Y., at an event commemorating American independence.
July 3, 2014
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What Is Talmud?: A Jewish tale set in medieval Germany
This story introduces the Talmud, an important book in the Jewish faith that contains the ideas and teachings from hundreds of rabbis. A father reads a story from the Talmud to his daughter and they talk about its meaning.
July 3, 2014
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948
The U.N. General Assembly adopted the original version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. The intention was to safeguard the international community against atrocities such as occurred during World War II.
July 2, 2014
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Ramadan
This picture book explains the Muslim holiday Ramadan by answering the 5 Ws: who, what, where, when and why.
July 2, 2014