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How to Recognize, Avoid, and Stop Stereotype Threat in Your Class this School Year

Digital Promise

The NNSTOY Social Justice Book list is a great resource for building your classroom library. Be human enough to admit them and correct them. Speak out in faculty meetings about inclusion, equity, and social justice and if necessary, challenge the status quo. Stereotypes Can Hold Boys Back in School, Too blog post.

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Multimodal ethnographies for teaching anthropological sensibilities

Teaching Anthropology

When I consider multimodality, my mind always travels back to Gregory Bateson’s take on communication and the use of multiple modes of mediation in social interaction.

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Read Aloud Podcast: Anchoring Lessons with Essential Questions

Heinemann Blog

How can we rely on our human capacity to love, to engage in teaching for social justice even in the presence of fear?

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

And, if I was stuck for an idea for class, I could access the Social Studies lesson plans at Educade or the 400+ lesson plans at the EDSITEment! web site from the National Endowment for the Humanities, including a very popular set for AP U.S. We’d have a variety of Social Studies simulations and games available to us.

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2018 Education Innovation Clusters Convening: Looking to the Future

Digital Promise

In keeping with an ongoing critical dialogue within EdClusters networks, the convening strove to elevate the conversation on educational equity: We heard from leaders of The Fellowship: Black Male Educators for Social Justice about the inequitable representation of black men as classroom educators in U.S.

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Ethics in the Classroom

Digital Promise

” Fleming, a human rights advocate, explains that the circumstances Ada is living under could be defined as an armed conflict or a war zone. She writes that Ada should be recognized as a complex person and consulted in the decision on whether she should matriculate to ninth grade. Others provide more abstract interpretations.

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#NothingAboutUsWithoutUs (The Power Of Geography Voice)

Geogramblings

All my education work via the Geogramblings’ “Life Geographic” blog is done all in my spare time, at my own cost but is free for you to access and enjoy. One monochrome projection, not 54 colonial constructs and definitely not 1.2 billion souls, hopes and dreams across six major climate zones 1.2