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FREE 4-Year-Olds Discuss Love and Marriage
An early childhood educator shows how far-ranging discussions can open children’s eyes to a broader understanding of relationships, including same-sex marriage and not getting married at all.
FREE Los niños y las niñas de 4 años hablan sobre el amor y el matrimonio
Una maestra de preescolar demuestra cómo una variedad de conversaciones pueden ampliar el conocimiento de los niños sobre las relaciones interpersonales, incluyendo los matrimonios del mismo sexo y las parejas que no se casan.
FREE Baby Steps Toward Restorative Justice
A middle school teacher tries to implement restorative practices in her classroom. It’s harder than she thought.
SPECIAL SECTION: COLLABORATING TO CAPTURE COMMUNITY RESILIENCE
Collaborating to Capture Community Resilience
Teachers form an inquiry-based study group to support each other as they look for ways to build on the resilience of their students.
Storytelling as Resistance
After a critical look at how their community is described by others, high school students interview and tell the true stories of people in their Watts, Los Angeles, neighborhood.
Research as Healing
As 9th graders focus persuasive letters on community issues, their teacher realizes she must be open about her own pain to empower students to be open about theirs.
FEATURES
FREE Can We Rescue the Common Core Standards from the Testing Machine?
Would the Common Core be OK if it weren’t for the tests? An activist/blogger says no.
Learning About Inequality
A master English teacher uses dialogue poems to develop empathy and connect history to literature.
FREE Climate Change and School in a Yup’ik Fishing Village
In a small village in southwestern Alaska, climate change is a current reality, not a distant fear. But it’s not in the curriculum or discussed at school.
Blood on the Tracks
Science teachers at a Portland, Oregon, high school ask how they can make their science classes more welcoming to Black students.
A teacher vividly describes her own experience of English-only schooling.
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FREE SHORT STUFF
Seattle Students Vote with Their Feet
Poets Start Young
Schoolchildren Targeted in Baltimore
Global Teacher Unions Protest at Pearson Meeting
Teacher Fired for Get-Well Letters to Mumia Abu-Jamal
FREE RESOURCES
Our picks for books, videos, websites, and other social justice education resources.