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A New Student Made Me Rethink My Classroom Culture — and the Ways It Marginalizes Students

ED Surge

His transition has made me rethink the culture of my classroom, and my role as an educator in creating that culture. When he violates a classroom expectation, I can understand his need to do so as an act of self-preservation and resistance or expression of individual identity, and I can allow him some flexibility.

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OPINION: Do our divided schools look like a scene out of ‘Mean Girls’ — or a slide into white nationalism?

The Hechinger Report

Finally, it is essential to consider community as well as identity. Large pockets of this country have embraced individual identities, encouraging young people to claim their race, gender, sexuality or religion as a part of who they are. This is needed. Sign up for our newsletter.

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