Our weekly newsletter, with info about our latest project on community reading groups and recommendations for teaching Thanksgiving responsibly. 

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November 5, 2019
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** Our New and Improved Reading Together Guide Is Here!
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Reading groups that bring students, educators and families together benefit everyone involved. Reading Together ([link removed]) offers step-by-step instructions for planning social justice reading groups that include and empower the entire learning community—within and beyond the classroom. This guide is designed to support adults as they plan and lead an intergenerational social justice reading group with kids. Start the planning today!
Teaching Hard History From the Beginning // Julia Delacroix ([link removed])

A Hopeful Case for Teaching Leadership and Confronting Bias in Education // Cory Collins ([link removed])

Authors of Their Own Stories // Jey Ehrenhalt ([link removed])
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Apply or Nominate an Educator for the TT Award
We are now accepting applications for the biennial Teaching Tolerance Award for Excellence in Teaching. We know teachers in the TT community are doing transformative anti-bias work across the country—and we want to hear about it. You can apply or nominate ([link removed]) someone you know. Applications are due December 8.
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** Talking About Indigenous Enslavement
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In the latest issue of
Teaching Tolerance magazine, historian Ned Blackhawk explains why we must understand Indigenous enslavement to fully understand American history. Read o ([link removed]) ur interview to learn what he has to say about the often ignored history of Indigenous slavery, why it’s so frequently mistaught—and why we owe it to ourselves and our students to learn and teach the truth.
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** We’re Looking for a Team of Educators to Write Lessons
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Teaching Tolerance is working on updating our collection of lessons, revising some of the lessons we have and creating new ones. We’re looking for a team of K–12 teachers and curriculum writers to help us with both tasks. If you’re interested in working with us, check out the requirements ([link removed]) and apply by email by
November 13.
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** Teaching Thanksgiving in a Socially Responsible Way
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Indigenous people have been speaking out and writing back against the colonialist narrative of Thanksgiving for as long as the American narrative has existed. Educators have an ethical obligation to teach accurately about Thanksgiving—providing students with a more balanced perspective of this oft-romanticized holiday. Here are some online resources ([link removed]) that can help.


** Check Out What We’re Reading
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“On the union’s most critical issues, leaders touted significant gains on staffing and class size, but didn’t get most of the prep time they sought. The tentative agreement is for a five-year contract, which would lock the union into two more years than they wanted.” — Chicago Tribune ([link removed])

“Exposure to stress, including discord at home, poverty and neighborhood violence, can all lead to anxiety.” — National Public Radio ([link removed])

“I didn’t want to think of Mexico as a monoculture, to let a commercial reinterpretation of the holiday paper over the indigenous and Afro-Latino roots I wanted so badly to access. ‘Reclamation,’ in the end, isn’t such a straightforward process. I was still bringing binary thinking — border thinking — to how I saw my family and how I saw myself.” — The Washington Post ([link removed])
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