Category: K-12
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How Virtual Reality Can Bring Citizen Science to Your Science Classroom
In a participatory democracy, citizens engage in the democratic process. For some reason, this idea is often removed from our classrooms. The truth is that social issues have a natural place in our classrooms, particularly in science classrooms. So much of science learning focuses on content learning; connecting the content to issues that affect students […]
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Final Project – Syllabus and Curricular Arc for Anti-racist Course
Writing Your Way to a New Theory of Race and Racism In this class, you will use reading and writing to challenge your assumptions around race, to investigate your relationship to race, and to design a new cognitive paradigm around race and racism. The overall goal of the class is to empower you […]
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Syllabus and Curricular Arc for Anti-racist Course
Writing Your Way to a New Theory of Race and Racism In this class, you will use reading and writing to challenge your assumptions around race, to investigate your relationship to race, and to design a new cognitive paradigm around race and racism. The overall goal of the class is to empower you […]
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“Self-Definition” Lesson Plan
Ms. Perry English Grade Level: High School/College Topic: Social Identity Time Allotment: Class period (40-60 minutes) This lesson plan was inspired by an activity I completed while in middle school. My teacher had each student write his/her name on an index card and then pass it back to the student sitting behind him or her. […]
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Weeksville Through the Lens of Langston Hughes
Lesson Plan: Grades: 9-12 Lesson time: 40 mins-1 hr (1 class period) Discrimination and racism have been an issue widely discussed […]
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Chapter 2: Student Body: What Happens When Teachers and Students Move Together (Review by Christina Bosch)
Part of the Collaborative Book Review of Structuring Equality: Handbook for Student-Centered Learning. The book is available here. This post reviews Chapter 2, “Student Body: What Happens When Teachers and Students Move Together” by Michael Druffel and Kelly Lerash. In “Student Body: What Happens when Teachers and Students Move Together,” Michael Druffel and Kelly Lerash critique traditional pedagogies that perpetuate the traditional […]
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Mar 6: Participate in a Twitter Chat on Global Perspectives on the Fight for Higher Education
On March 6 from 2-4pm (EST), HASTAC and The Futures Initiative will continue this semester’s University Worth Fighting For events. In “Global Perspectives on the Fight for Higher Education,” we will share strategies across the globe and highlight the urgent need for abolition and decolonial education. The discussion will (re)focus our collective attention on how the university […]
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Building LRNG Badges: Beyond Graphics
Teachers in the New York City Writing Project, Paul Allison, Kiran Chaudhuri, Gina Moss, and Grace Raffaele, talk through the Badge Builder on LRNG. A link to the assessment documents we refer to: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B52TLTNub3z9T3V4SjhLdkIwa3c A link to a PSD version of the Picture Me Badge that can be used as a template: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B52TLTNub3z9TzlvenhlZkNXNlU/view?usp=sharing ALSO: Here’s a close […]