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Our Toolkits help you lay the foundation for meaningful and respectful classroom conversations and provide you with engaging, student-centered activities to enliven your lessons.
Whether you are preparing to launch a new ELA unit or establishing classroom norms at the beginning of the school year, our Toolkits provide you with everything you need to introduce a new unit of study to your students.
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Back to School: Building Community for Connection and Learning
These back-to-school activities and teacher resources will help you lay a foundation for a reflective and caring community at the start of the school year.
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Current Events Toolkit
This toolkit provides flexible and adaptable tools and strategies for integrating current events into your teaching.
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6 New Books on Human Rights
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Below are 6 books published in 2021 that speak to underacknowledged dimensions of human rights in history, teaching, and contemporary global society.
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Anti-Trans Legislation: How We Got Here and Why it Matters
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Facing History describes the wave of Anti-Transgender legislation happening in the US, and how this affects our trans youth.
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#MeToo Past and Present: 3 New Books on Challenging Gender Violence
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Facing History summarizes three new books that have been released in the last year that address the ongoing struggle of women against gender violence.
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5 New YA Books on Women's History
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Kaitlin Smith
Facing History provides a list of five YA titles that have been released in the last year that make important themes in women’s history and contemporary life accessible to young readers.
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Why Genocide Recognition Matters
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Today is the #WeNeedBlackTeachers Day of Action
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Youth Activism and Grief on Earth Day
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How to Build an Affirming Classroom in the Face of Anti-Trans Legislation
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6 Resources for Teaching About 9/11
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5 Timely Reads on Genocide
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In response to the outpouring of discussion and debate following President Biden’s statement that Russia’s ongoing assault on Ukraine constitutes genocide, Facing History provides five reads to address crucial questions educators and their students may be asking.
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