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    Native American Heritage Month: Stereotypes Still Unbroken

    Not long ago, with work piling up, to-do things needing to be done, and the fate of the free world basically depending on what I did next, I chose what any responsible adult does in these situations: I continued scrolling through TikTok for several...

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    Mental Health Awareness: Your Brain Needs a Hug

    The words are never right. The time is never perfect. And life keeps piling stress after stress onto the people we love. What do we say to someone...

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    Frankenstein: A Romantic Reaction to the Age of Reason (and Other Perspectives)

    Happy Halloween week! For those wanting to sprinkle a little Halloween spirit into the classroom this week, the attached lesson plan uses the novel...

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    AP® World History: Murder Mystery Party

    The teaching of AP® World History can be a daunting task at times. Teachers are asked to teach over 800 years of historical content and then develop...

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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...

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    Teacher and presenter Kristian Kuhn stands in front of brick wall with painting of Bob Ross behind him

    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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