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    Mental Health Awareness: Are u ok?

    Being a teenager means a lot of things, but starting to date and get into romantic relationships or friendships sticks out as a huge milestone. The thing most teens need is guidance to make a healthy choice when choosing with whom to be friends or...

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    What if we taught composition like Bob Ross teaches painting?

    Back in my hometown, it was a rite of passage at the age of twelve to get a paper route. There was no status associated with it, nor did it come with...

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    Hispanic Heritage Month: Three per cent no es Fabuloso

    In my first period class of sophomores at a high school on the Southwest side of San Antonio, I had one White student, one Muslim student, and the...

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    AP® Gov: Constitutional Amendments

    One of the most important goals of civics education is to get students to understand the imperfections of the constitutional system of the United...

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    Mental Health Awareness: Kind of Sort of Fine

    A bright part of every teacher’s day is getting to the class that your star student is in. You know the one. We see them reach for the sky every time...

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    AP® World History: Sports & Colonization

    This lesson module can be used by regular or AP® World, U.S., or European History teachers to develop an understanding of how sport has been used as...

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    Hispanic Heritage Month: Speaking and Scribbling in Spanish

    When my mother was going to school in the panhandle of Texas, she and her friends were punished if they spoke Spanish in school. When my brothers and...

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    AP® Lang: The Dialectical Journal

    This resource is designed to provide structure, guidance, and inspiration for students to complete a series of dialectical journal entries based on...

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    Mental Health Awareness: Girl in Pieces

    To be mentally healthy requires work, and many youth and their families turn to some kind of therapy, counseling, or inpatient program to aid in that...

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    Mental Health Awareness: Writing as a Healthy Outlet

    Mental health is just as important as our physical health, and many educators understand this. According to the National Institute of Mental Health,...

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