Our weekly newsletter, with info about the 2020 Teaching Tolerance Award and how to start a conversation about DACA in your classroom.

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November 12, 2019
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** Nominate or Apply for the 2020 Teaching Tolerance Award!
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Do you know an exemplary K–12 classroom teacher who prioritizes equity and social justice? We’re now accepting nominations and applications for our biennial Award for Excellence in Teaching ([link removed]) . You can help us find the next award-winning educators by nominating someone ([link removed]) you know—or by applying ([link removed]) ! The deadline to apply is December 8, 2019.
School Safety and Guns Don’t Mix // Coshandra Dillard ([link removed])

Advice for New Social Justice Educators: “I Wish I Had Known” // 2019–2021 Teaching Tolerance Advisory Board ([link removed])

A Hopeful Case of Teacher Leadership and Confronting Bias in Education // Cory Collins ([link removed])
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** TT Is Seeking Authors to Write and Revise Lessons
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Teaching Tolerance is working on updating our collection of lessons, revising some that 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 tomorrow,
November 13.
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** New Edition of Teaching Hard History for K–12
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All students deserve the truth about American slavery, starting in kindergarten—and starting with Indigenous enslavement. Our new K–5 and 6–12 frameworks offer recommendations to help students connect the history they’re learning to the world in which they’re living. Read more ([link removed]) about the new
Teaching Hard History: American Slavery resources.
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Discussing the DACA Hearings in Your Classroom
Today, arguments began in three Supreme Court cases that will decide the fate of DACA. Although the court’s decisions won’t be announced until the spring, we hope you’ll take this opportunity to engage with students ([link removed]) and colleagues to ensure that everyone in your school knows their identities are respected and valued.
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** Applications Open for NEPC’s Schools of Opportunity
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The National Education Policy Center’s Schools of Opportunity program recognizes public high schools attempting to close opportunity gaps—regardless of the students they serve. The project acknowledges schools with a commitment to equity for all. Anyone can nominate a school ([link removed]) , and educators can apply ([link removed]) now through January 31.


** Check Out What We’re Reading
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“By centering this founders’ narrative and calling it American history, it completely erases Native people. It’s an uncomfortable truth that the first people in this country were here before the founding of the U.S.” — The Washington Post ([link removed])

“Above their pictures are the words ‘1921 Race Riot Survivors.’ A thin black line scratched out ‘riot,’ and ‘massacre’ was scrawled below.” — GEN by Medium ([link removed])

“Five years after Michigan switched Flint’s water supply to the contaminated Flint River from Lake Huron, the city’s lead crisis has migrated from its homes to its schools, where neurological and behavioral problems — real or feared — among students are threatening to overwhelm the education system.” — The New York Times ([link removed])
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