COVER THEME
Learning Math, Learning Justice
Free Whose Community Is This?
Mathematics of neighborhood displacement
Students use advanced math to study gentrification, displacement, and foreclosure in their neighborhood.
Transparency of Water
A workshop on math, water, and justice
Community educators bring math into an intergenerational exploration of the environmental, political, and economic issues surrounding bottled versus tap water.
Free Beyond Marbles
Percent change and social justice
Middle school students analyze a classroom full of social justice issues, armed with their understanding of percent change.
OTHER FEATURES
Free Responding to Tragedy
2nd graders reach out to the Sikh community
When a racist attack kills members of a local Sikh temple, a 2nd-grade teacher involves her students in a journey of connection and solidarity.
An Unfortunate Misunderstanding
Saga of a promising new charter
Helping create an independent charter school seems like a dream job. But teachers, parents, and children soon confront all-too-familiar charter school woes.
Creative Conflict
Collaborative playwriting
A high school drama teacher searches for ways to encourage students to write about their lives without replicating stereotypes.
“Hey, Mom, I Forgive You”
Teaching the forgiveness poem
An English teacher builds community as her students write a poem about forgiving—or not forgiving. She starts with her own story.
Free Paradise Lost
Introducing students to climate change through story
The film Paradise Lost—about the rising ocean that threatens Kiribati—proves an evocative introduction to a unit on climate change.
DEPARTMENTS
Free Action Education
Seattle Test Boycott: Our Destination Is Not on the MAP
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