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Holocaust
Genocide & Mass Violence
Teacher-Created Unit: People Make Choices, Choices Make History
Get the 5-week unit created for a 10th Grade English class using our Holocaust content and Literacy Design Collaborative’s task templates.
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Bullying & Ostracism
Thabiti Brown
Thabiti Brown is the principal at Codman Academy, a charter public school in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Codman Academy's mission is to prepare students for full participation in the intellectual, economic and civic life of society, by ensuring their preparation for and access to
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Bullying & Ostracism
The Bully Project
The film is just the beginning. The filmmakers have launched a social action campaign called The Bully Project, designed to highlight solutions that both address immediate needs and lead to systemic change.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
Justice & Human Rights
The Equal Rights Amendment: A 97-Year Struggle
This teaching idea provides an overview of the ERA and a look at the history behind the struggle to ratify the amendment that would formally guarantee women equal rights to men under the US Constitution.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
Race in US History
The Hope and Fragility of Democracy in the United States
In this Teaching Idea, students learn about the history of democratic and anti-democratic efforts in the United States and examine sources that illuminate this tension from Reconstruction through today.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
The Kavanaugh Hearings
Provide students with a chance to process, reflect, and deliberate with others about the US Senate hearings in the confirmation of Judge Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court.
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Global Immigration
The Many Faces of Global Migration
Use recent photographs to help students connect to the experiences of migrants and to better understand the scale of global migration.
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Race in US History
The Persistence of Racial Segregation in American Schools
More than 60 years after Brown v. Board of Education, give students an overview of the problem of school segregation in the United States today and open a discussion about possible solutions.
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The School Year in Review: 2019
As summer vacation approaches, pause to reflect on five key-issues that were in the news this school year and the ways in which young people have taken action on them.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
Voting Rights in the United States
Use this Teaching Idea during the 2020 election season to help students explore the expansion and constriction of voting rights throughout US history.
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Bullying & Ostracism
Watch
Like the phenomenon of bullying itself, BULLY is direct and hard-hitting. Careful preparation is vital. The necessity of adults previewing the full film before using it with young people cannot be overemphasized.
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Everything you need to get started teaching your students about racism, antisemitism and prejudice.