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Rethinking Our Classrooms Volume 2

Transforming Teacher Unions

Complete Table Of Contents

"Rethinking Our Classrooms" is divided into six main sections. Click on the section heading to jump directly to that section below. Click here to view the ROC2 Table of Contents in pdf format, or, return to the ROC2 home page.

The Power of Words

The Power of the Past

The Power of Critique

The Power of Social Action

Rethinking School Culture

Rethinking Assessment

Introduction — 1

  • The Power of Words — 5

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The Power of Words

  • Where I'm From: Inviting Students' Lives into the Classroom — 6
    by Linda Christensen
  • "Where I'm From" — 6
    by George Ella Lyon
  • "I Am From Soul Food and Harriet Tubman" — 8
    by Lealonni Blake
  • "I Am From Pink Tights and Speak Your Mind" — 9
    by Djamila Moore
  • "I Am From . . ." — 10
    by Oretha Storey
  • "I Am From Swingsets and Jungle Gyms" — 10
    by Debby Gordon
  • An International Proverbs Project — 11
    by Jim Cummins and Dennis Sayers
  • "Race" — 15
    by Cang Dao
  • For My People — 16
    by Linda Christensen
  • What Color Is Beautiful? — 18
    by Alejandro Segura-Mora
  • Ebonics and Culturally Responsive Instruction — 22
    by Lisa Delpit
  • Exploring Black Cultural Issues — 27
    by Bakari Chavanu
  • "Ode to Writing" — 31
    by Jessica Rawlins
  • "I am Proud to Be Bilingual" — 32
    by Monica Thao

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The Power of the Past

  • Unsung Heroes — 34
    by Howard Zinn
  • Teaching About Unsung Heroes — 37
    by Bill Bigelow
  • Discovering the Truth about Helen Keller — 42
    by James Loewen
  • On the Road to Cultural Bias — 45
    by Bill Bigelow
  • Fiction Posing as Truth — 57
    by Debbie Reese, et al.
  • Rethinking the U.S. Constitutional Convention: A Role Play — 63
    by Bob Peterson
  • A New U.S. Bill of Rights — 70
    by Larry Miller
  • "Waiting at the Railroad Cafe" — 72
    by Janet Wong
  • A Lesson on the Japanese-American Internment — 73
    by Mark Sweeting
  • "In Response to Executive Order 9066" — 75
    by Dwight Okita
  • What the Tour Guide Didn't Tell Me — 76
    by Wayne Au

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The Power of Critique

  • Ten Chairs of Inequality — 82
    by Polly Kellogg
  • Teaching Math Across the Curriculum — 84
    by Bob Peterson
  • Percent as a Tool for Social Justice — 89
    by Bob Peterson
  • The Human Lives Behind the Labels — 91
    by Bill Bigelow
  • "The Stitching Shed" — 100
    by Tho Dong
  • Bias and CD-ROM Encyclopedias — 101
    by Bob Peterson
  • Where's the 'R' Word? — 105
    by Bob Peterson
  • Girls, Worms, and Body Image — 107
    by Kate Lyman
  • Math, Maps, and Misrepresentation — 112
    by Eric Gutstein

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The Power of Social Action

  • "We Had Set Ourselves Free" — 116
    by Doug Sherman
  • From Snarling Dogs to Bloody Sunday — 119
    by Kate Lyman
  • Mississippi Freedom Schools — 126
    by David Levine
  • Improvs and Civil Rights — 134
    by Bill Bigelow
  • The Poetry of Protest — 135
    by Linda Christensen
  • "Jorge the Church Janitor Finally Quits" — 136
    by Martín Espada
  • A Bill of Rights for Girls — 138
    by Mary Blalock
  • The Trial — 140
    by Kate Lyman
  • Students Blow the Whistle on Toxic Oil Contamination — 144
    by Larry Miller and Danah Opland-Dobs
  • "Garbage" — 146
    by Bill Steele, Mike Agranoff, and Pete Seeger
  • AIDS — "You Can Die From It" — 149
    by Kate Lyman
  • "at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, south carolina, 1989" — 154
    by Lucille Clifton

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Rethinking School Culture

  • When Things Turn Ugly — 156
    by Donn Harris
  • Rethinking Discipline — 160
    by Jehanne Helena Beaton
  • Creating Classroom Community — 163
    by Beverly Braxton
  • A Mother Speaks Out — 167
    by Leslie Sadasivan
  • Teaching the Whole Story — 168
    by Kate Lyman
  • Playing Favorites — 176
    by Mara Sapon-Shevin
  • Black Teachers on Teaching — 181
    by Michele Foster
  • School System Shock — 186
    by Melony Swasey
  • Arranged Marriages, Rearranged Ideas — 188
    by Stan Karp
  • Out Front — 194
    by Annie Johnston
  • Staying Past Wednesday — 199
    by Kate Lyman
  • "Earth's Last Cry" — 202
    by Rachel M. Knudsen

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Rethinking Assessment

  • Why the Testing Craze Won't Fix Our Schools — 204
    by the Editors of Rethinking Schools
  • Basketball and Portfolios — 207
    by Linda Christensen
  • One Size Fits Few — 211
    by Susan Ohanian
  • Tracking and the Project Method — 214
    by Bob Peterson
  • Motivating Students to do Quality Work — 219
    by Bob Peterson
  • Resources — 225
  • Poetry Teaching Guide — 240
    by Linda Christensen
  • Index — 242