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Reference Materials
This post helps teachers understand how to both memorialize September 11 and contextualize the history of the day through five essential questions. Targeted toward secondary students, the questions can help teachers and students compare aspects of September 11 to other events in American his
Resource Type(s):
Reference Materials, Primary Sources
In this post, students will read an interview with Marcia Quackenbush, a social worker in San Francisco in the early 1980s. She wrote one of the early textbooks for K-12 teachers, Teaching AIDS. Interviewer John O’Keefe is a guest assistant curator of the showcase displa
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School,Middle School
A children's story illustrating what happens when a southern black school gains a young white teacher from the north during the Civil Rights era.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School,Late Elementary School
A fresh, fun, and "thought-provoking" New York Times bestseller about the American electoral college and why every vote counts from bestselling and award-winning duo Kelly DiPucchio and LeUyen Pham. "Where are the girls?" When Grace's teacher reveals that the United States has never had a female pre
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School,Late Elementary School
From the time she was two years old, Jazz knew that she had a girl's brain in a boy's body. She loved pink and dressing up as a mermaid and didn't feel like herself in boys' clothing. This confused her family, until they took her to a doctor who said that Jazz was transgender and that she was born t
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School,Middle School,High School,Adult
This fictional story tells of a young woman's encounter with American Civil Rights leader and educator Mary McLeod Bethune and its impact on her life.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School
The story of Louis Armstrong as a boy and how he was sent to The Colored Waif's Home, where a music teacher discovers Louis' musical talent and gives him a cornet.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School,Late Elementary School
When Jacob goes to the boys' bathroom he is chased out because the boys think he looks like a girl. His classmate, Sophie, has a similar experience in the girls' bathroom. When their teacher finds out, Jacob and Sophie, lead change at their school as everyone discovers the many forms of gender expre
Reading Level:
Middle School
These short, vibrant tanka poems about Black boys and young men depict thirteen views of everyday life: dressed in Sunday best, running to catch a bus, growing up to be teachers, and much more. Each of Tony Medina's tanka is matched with a different artist--including recent Caldecott and Coretta Sco