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Artificial intelligence is growing by leaps and bounds. It's no longer science fiction anymore!

Lots of AI tools can serve as our own personal assistants -- answering questions, helping us write text, create images, speak more effectively, and more.

Time has always been a barrier in the classroom. Most teachers would agree that they would be able to do more -- including the things that are most important -- if they had more time.

Teachers can find AI tools that are ready to help them out right now. Lots of them are free or have "freemium" plans with limited free options.

Below is a description of AI and how you can start using it to support your work in class.

What is artificial intelligence?

Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to the ability of a computer or machine to perform tasks that would normally require human intelligence, such as learning, problem-solving, decision-making, and more. There are several different approaches to building AI systems, including machine learning, where a system is trained on a dataset and can improve its performance over time, and rule-based systems, where the system follows a set of predetermined rules to make decisions.

AI can be applied to a wide range of areas, including natural language processing, image and video recognition, robotics, and more. The goal of AI research is to create systems that can perform tasks at least as well as, or ideally better than, humans. AI has the potential to revolutionize many industries and transform the way we live and work, but it also raises important ethical and social questions.

30 AI tools for the classroom

We have gathered 30 of our favorite AI tools for the classroom below. You can scroll down and check them all out or jump to any category of tools by clicking on the icon below.
Note: Pricing is accurate as of our most recent update in November 2023.

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Artificial intelligence is growing by leaps and bounds. It's no longer science fiction anymore! Lots of AI tools can serve as our own personal

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Save yourself some time and frustration. Get 14 activities you can copy and assign to your students right away in our Teaching with TEACHFLIX ebook!

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Our Google Slides, Drawings, PowerPoint and Jamboard templates get your students to work quickly.

Download or make a copy. Adjust as necessary. Assign to your students. Yep, that easy.
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Equal Justice Initiative Documentary about Bryan Stevenson

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This HBO documentary follows Bryan Stevenson and EJI's struggle to create greater fairness in the criminal justice system.

Buy the DVD or stream anytime

About the Film

True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality follows 30 years of EJI's work on behalf of the poor, the incarcerated, and the condemned. The film won the National Association for Multi-ethnicity in Communications's 26th annual Vision Award and has been nominated for a Peabody Award.

Told primarily in his own words, True Justice shares Bryan Stevenson's experience with a criminal justice system that "treats you better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent." The burden of facing this system is explored in candid interviews with associates, close family members, and clients.

This feature documentary focuses on Bryan Stevenson's life and career-particularly his indictment of the U.S. criminal justice system for its role in codifying modern systemic racism-and tracks the intertwined histories of slavery, lynching, segregation and mass incarceration. Highlighting watershed moments involving cases and clients, True Justice offers a rare glimpse into the human struggle that is required when the poor and people of color are wrongly condemned or unfairly sentenced, and explores the personal toll it takes.

The film chronicles EJI's work in Alabama as well as the early influences that drove Bryan Stevenson to become an advocate for the poor and the incarcerated. As a young lawyer in the 1980s, he witnessed firsthand how courts unfairly applied the death penalty based on race and how the Supreme Court ultimately declared that racial bias in the administration of the death penalty was "inevitable."

Tracing the trajectory of the Court since the 1857 Dred Scott decision, which ruled that African Americans are not citizens, True Justice shows how the Court has long sanctioned inequality, oppression, and violence. Illuminating the power of memory in cultural change, the film instills hope for a brighter American future.

The film also documents the monumental opening of EJI's Legacy Museum and its National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which is dedicated to the more than 4,400 African American victims of lynching. These sites are part of EJI's effort to engage the nation in a new era of truth and justice. As part of the campaign, EJI is working with communities to recognize lynching victims by collecting soil from lynching sites and erecting historical markers.

True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality reveals a history that can't be forgotten in the pursuit of genuine justice.

Behind the Camera

Six-time Emmy-winner Peter Kunhardt (HBO's Emmy-winning Jim: The James Foley Story) executive produces and directs; Emmy-winners Teddy Kunhardt and George Kunhardt produce and direct.

Kunhardt Films's HBO credits include the Emmy-winning Jim: The James Foley Story, the Emmy-winning Teddy: In His Own Words, the Emmy-nominated Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words, the Emmy-nominated Gloria: In Her Own Words, The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee, Becoming Warren Buffett, King in the Wilderness and John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls.

True Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality is a co-production of HBO and Kunhardt Films; produced and directed by Peter Kunhardt, George Kunhardt and Teddy Kunhardt; executive produced by Trey Ellis and Peter Kunhardt; edited and produced by Maya Mumma, ACE. For HBO: executive produced by Jacqueline Glover, Nancy Abraham and Lisa Heller.

Host a Screening

You can share the feature length version of True Justice by hosting a community screening. Please contact Emily Keating for licensing and permission information: [email protected] . Educator resources that accompany the film, including an Engagement Guide, can be found here.

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EdJustice Books and Essays Related to Social Justice

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Dedicated to being a threat to the existence of inequity and bias in schools and beyond through equity literacy.

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Common Sense Media Social and Cultural Literacy Resources

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Teaching and learning happen within cultural, political, and social circumstances. As much as we want to deny it, we all have biases based on our life experiences. Each of us -- teachers and students alike -- enter classrooms from different perspectives and points of view. We must learn to negotiate those differences to better understand each other and our worlds, and to advocate for a better, more equitable future. To do so, we need to build a set of social and cultural literacies via multicultural education, social justice education, and culturally responsive pedagogy that help us navigate difficult conversations, acknowledge and challenge bias and prejudice, create inclusive classroom spaces, and fight for social justice.

In this collection, you'll find hand-picked, regularly updated resources to help you better understand and practice these important social and cultural literacies. At the top, there are featured resources as well as more comprehensive curricula. Then you'll find lessons, videos, downloadables, and games organized by a few key topic areas like facilitating tough conversations, understanding bias and prejudice, and getting students civically engaged.

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Social and Cultural Literacy Curricula
Challenging or Difficult Conversations
Bias and Prejudice
Civic Engagement, Activism, and Social Justice
Inclusive Communities
Research on Social and Cultural Literacy
Social and Cultural Literacy Organizations to Explore for More = one of our favorite resources
Social and Cultural Literacy Courses and Curricula

The providers below offer more comprehensive resources for media literacy, from courses (from just a few hours to weeks) to a curriculum linked to a scope and sequence and standards.

Digital Civics Toolki t (by the Civic Engagement Research Group): Created by the same researchers behind Deep Dive: Educating for Democracy, this toolkit offers easy-to-implement conversation starters (among other resources) for activating students' passion for civics and democracy. For more, check out our review.

Educating 4 Democracy (by the Civic Engagement Research Group): This series of videos (featuring real students and teachers) and associated lesson materials is backed by research and sure to inspire and support productive classroom discussions.

Talking About Race (by the National Museum of African American History & Culture): This toolkit provides in-depth resources for caregivers, educators, and individuals to reflect on race, power, and privilege, all in the interest of having constructive, equity-oriented conversations.

The Teaching Tolerance Social Justice Standards: A Professional Development Facilitator Guide (by Teaching Tolerance): This downloadable not only features a set of social justice standards schools can use to make anti-bias education a priority in their communities, but also a great PD guide for getting your educators and administrators on board with weaving these practices into daily teaching and learning practice.

Challenging or Difficult Conversations

Controversial and difficult conversations are unavoidable in classrooms, especially those grappling with important cultural, social, and political issues. Fortunately, these conversations are often a lot scarier in theory than in practice given the incredible research and resources available for handling them effectively.

Websites, articles, feeds, and newsletters

Lesson plans and activities

Building Classroom Community: Lessons for the First Day of School (by Facing History): Framed as a back-to-school toolkit, these five lessons will help prep classrooms to have meaningful, respectful conversations about identity and more.

Critical Practices for Anti-Bias Education: Classroom Culture (by Teaching Tolerance): These PD activities and reflections for educators help teachers make their classrooms more open and respectful, leading to better discussions and outcomes for all students.

"Where I'm From" Poem (by Remix at the University of Notre Dame): Use this poetry lesson to get students reflecting on -- and sharing -- who they are. Along the way students also get some experience using Audacity, an audio recording and editing tool.

Videos

Handouts, infographics, and posters

Games, apps, and tools

Help students build collaboration and communication skills using the tools on these lists.

Bias and Prejudice

We all carry biases, and it's important to reflect on them and work to expand our perspectives, experiences, and communities so we act and think with less prejudice and take aim together at systems of oppression.

Websites, articles, feeds, and newsletters

8 Ways Teachers Can Address White Supremacy in the Classroom (by Common Sense Education): Take these steps to make sure your classroom is actively anti-racist.

Anti-Racism Resources for All Ages (by Nicole A. Cooke): An excellent collection of videos, books, articles, and lessons on anti-racism, activism, and critical race theory curated by Dr. Nicole A. Cooke of the University of South Carolina.

Anti-Racist Resources: This comprehensive, crowd-sourced Google doc (created in the wake of the Charlottesville, Virginia, white supremacist rally) is a must-bookmark resource for any educator committed to combating bias and bigotry in their classroom and community.

Five Ways to Reduce Racial Bias in Your Children (by Greater Good magazine): Trustworthy practical tips from UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center.

Research-Based Advice on Teaching Children Not to Be Racist (by the Atlantic): Two researchers offer proven and age-appropriate strategies for reducing bias and prejudice in the early grades.

ocial Justice Books (by Teaching for Change): A highly recommended resource for preschool and elementary school educators, this list of books intersects with all kinds of important cultural and social issues and will help students build perspective.

Lesson plans and activities

Anti-Bias Tools & Strategies (by ADL): A collection of ADL's articles ranging from teaching strategies to historical info to topical and definitional overviews, all aimed at anti-bias education.

Real Fake News: Exploring Actual Examples of Newspaper Bias (by Common Sense Education): Have students go beyond the buzzword, and explore inaccurate or outright false reporting about Black people, driven by bias, prejudice, and racism.

Reflecting on George Floyd's Death and Police Violence Towards Black Americans (by Facing History): Use this reflective activity to get every member of your classroom -- including you -- to reflect on police violence, racism, protest, and paths to justice.

Teaching About Race, Racism, and Police Violence (Teaching Tolerance): This combination of articles, lessons, professional development, and more is a great starting point for classroom discussions about police violence and its role in systemic racism.

Videos

Handouts, infographics, and posters

Games, apps, and tools

Civic Engagement, Activism, and Social Justice

When studying tough topics like injustice and oppression, it's important to connect people -- especially young people -- to outlets for their frustration, rage, and political goals. This is where activism comes in: It can channel these feelings toward meaningful ways to build community and create social change.

Websites, articles, feeds, and newsletters

10 Organizations That Empower Latinxs in America (by Cultura Collectiva): A good overview of Latinx-focused organizations for students looking to advocate for the rights and futures of Latinx people worldwide.

10 Ways Youth Can Engage in Activism (by ADL): Share these methods with students to give them an outlet for their political passions.

28 Organizations That Empower Black Communities (by the Huffington Post): While this is far from comprehensive, this list has a lot of great organizations for Black activists, and some are led by young people.

International Indigenous Youth Council: Started during the Dakota Access Pipeline protests at Standing Rock, this organization fights to protect the natural world and indigenous culture while encouraging young people to become leaders in their communities.

March for Our Lives: Formed in the wake of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, March for Our Lives has mobilized young people to end the epidemic of gun violence.

LGBT Youth & Schools Resource Library (U.S.) (by ACLU): An excellent roundup of organizations offering resources for supporting, protecting, and empowering LGBTQ+ students in your classroom and/or school community.

Sunrise Movement: This youth-led climate change organization has been making headlines the past two years, most notably for being behind the push for a Green New Deal.

Lesson plans and activities

Activism Online (by Teaching Tolerance): A great introduction to both the possibilities and limitations of online activism.

Democracy & Civic Engagement (by Facing History): There are dozens of lessons -- across all grade levels -- available at Facing History that help students understand past struggles for justice and encourage them to imagine possible futures.

Social Media for Social Action (by Teaching Tolerance): Get students thinking more deeply about how social media can be leveraged for activism and change, but also about the negative effects inherent in the medium.

Transformational action through Art Build (by NEA EdJustice): This article shows how several school communities brought their schools and communities together to create and showcase activist art. There's also checklist of tasks you can use to organize your own Art Build event.

Vote by Design (by Stanford d.school): This non-partisan, free curriculum aims to get students civically engaged by having them think about and discuss the qualities they want in a President.

Videos

Handouts, infographics, and posters

Games, apps, and tools

Inclusive Communities

To be good citizens -- and digital citizens -- we must actively work against toxic ideas and communities rife with conspiratorial thinking, cynicism, and hate. Instead, we must create spaces where everyone is welcome and ideas and points of view are discussed constructively.

Websites, articles, feeds, and newsletters

Increasing Inclusivity in the Classroom (by the Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University): This is one of the best roundups of mostly academic research and best practices for inclusive teaching and facilitation.

A Look at Implicit Bias and Microaggressions (by Edutopia): Bias manifests in many subtle, unconscious ways, and this list of resources will help you recognize small steps you can take to forge a more inclusive classroom.

Lesson plans and activities

Awareness Activities (by the Critical Multicultural Pavilion): These icebreakers and reflective activities help classrooms map and discuss their identities, differences, and commonalities.

Constructively Engaging in Digital Communities (by Teaching Tolerance): An in-depth lesson that ends with students developing classroom guidelines for effective community participation.

Countering Hate Speech Online (by Common Sense Education): Get students to explore the relationship between hate speech and xenophobia and how they can combat it in digital spaces.

Part of a Community Online (by Teaching Tolerance): Introduce young kids to the idea of emotionally supportive and empathic community-building.

Participating in Digital Communities (by Teaching Tolerance): Get students to make a commitment to creating inclusive communities and to practicing how to respond to bias and prejudice.

Responding to Online Hate Speech (by Common Sense Education): Help middle schoolers learn techniques to deal with hate speech when they see it or experience it.

Should Online Hate Speech Be Censored? (by Common Sense Education): Is hate speech free speech? Use this lesson to get your high school students to explore this quandary and offer an informed perspective.

Videos

Handouts, infographics, and posters

Games, apps, and tools

Research on Social and Cultural Literacy

Below you'll find some researchers and research organizations that focus on social and cultural literacy. We've also highlighted a few key pieces of their work.

Biased (by Jennifer L. Eberhardt): Dr. Eberhardt provides a highly readable mapping of the landscape of research into bias, bias's impact on our world, and ways forward.

Culturally Responsive Teaching & the Brain (by Zaretta Hammond): This book and study guide offers an important perspective on how to create inclusive but challenging classroom environments that are equally attuned to the way our brains work and how culture affects the way we engage with each other and the world.

Equity Literacy Institute (by Paul Gorski and others): Dig into this extensive list of equity-focused books and articles published by longtime educator and social justice advocate Paul Gorski and his collaborators.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed (by Paulo Freire): Dense but foundational book focused on how to upend top-down approaches to pedagogy and restore the revolutionary potential of education.

Social and Cultural Literacy Organizations to Explore for More

Help students think critically about current events and media with this collection of lessons, videos, and more.

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26 Mini Films for Exploring Race, Bias and Identity with Students

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26 Mini-Films for Exploring Race, Bias and Identity With Students (Published 2017)

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A Google extension that students can add to their own Chrome Browser.  This allows students to listen to just about any text or article you find on-line, as it is read to them.  Students can adjust the reading speed, and the quality of speech is excellent.

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A great collection of easy to use functions within applications that we regularly use, including YouTube, Google Docs, and Google Translate.  There are video tutorials for most.

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Road to Racial Justice Board Game (can also be played virtually without the board)

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Road to Racial Justice Free "Board" Game | Kesa Kivel Studios

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Muhammad Ali Center | Be Great :: Do Great Things

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Get an insight into theatre-making at the National with our extensive collection of videos and audio content including recorded talks and events. Find out more

Every production at the National will have a detailed rehearsal diary written by the Staff Director. To request a copy, please email Jane Ball, Secondary and FE Programme Manager on j jball@nationaltheatre.org.uk.

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Get an insight into theatre-making at the National with our extensive collection of videos and audio content including recorded talks and events. Find out more Every production at the National will have a detailed rehearsal diary written by the Staff Director. To request a copy, please email Jane Ball, Secondary and FE Programme Manager on j jball@nationaltheatre.org.uk.

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American Theatre Wing invests in brave work, supports creative growth, and celebrates excellence to bring inclusive stories to our national culture through theatre. Founded in 1917 on the eve of America’s entry into World War I by seven suffragists, American Theatre Wing has spent a century using theatre to advance human experience, empathy and cultural growth like never before.

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Pricing and Reservation Policies

Good news! if you would like to distribute a viewing link to each student in your class, you have the option to book per student. (link) Tickets are $10 per student.

If you would like to broadcast a performance to your class in a group setting, you have the option to purchase a per classroom option. This option is $250 per classroom.

Each of our performances is given a rating based on how age-appropriate we believe them to be. We recommend i for grades 3+, Dracula: A Radio Play for grades 6+, and Where Did We Sit on the Bus? and Romeo and Juliet: Louisville 2020 for grades 8+.

Along with a link to stream the performance, you will receive a pre-field trip workshop video and a study guide for students and educators.

Secure payment with a credit card can be made directly at the time of booking. If your school would like to pay by check, please select "Book Now" above and fill out our booking form so we can send you an invoice. Payment must be received in full prior to receiving your virtual links.

If you book the "per student" option, to receive individual links for each student, it will be up to the teacher to distribute tickets to their students. Virtual tickets will be distributed to the email address provided during booking. If you book per student, we will send all individual links to the one email address provided.

In order to ensure that you are receiving your links, consider adding BoxOffice@actorstheatre.org and Info@actorstheatre.org to your contact list. If messages from Actors Theatre are being filtered as Spam, you can add us to your "safe sender" list.

Make sure that you check your junk folder or folders that sort out promotional emails. If you still can't find it, please email BoxOffice@actorstheatre.org.

PlayPlay is the streaming site that your students will be directed to with their links. If we send you a link that directs to PlayPlay.tv, that is safe to follow and will let you stream a project into which you've been ticketed.

Yes! You will be able to turn captions on using the video player controls in PlayPlay.

Your students should be able to stream on most devices they own. They can watch video projects on iOS, AppleTV, Android, Roku, Amazon Firestick, and their web browser. For our radio plays, they will be able to listen from their phone, tablet, or computer.

Yes! The easiest option is to use screen mirroring or AirPlay to play the stream from your phone, laptop or other device to your TV. You might see a slight decrease in quality with this option.

If your TV is smart or has internet capabilities, you can download or open an internet browser and log into your email. From there, you can open the email we sent you and click on your link to stream. If you have trouble streaming on an older TV, you may have better luck switching to an alternate device. You can watch from the comfort of your home on iOS, AppleTV, Android, Roku, Amazon Firestick and your web browser.

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Pricing and Reservation Policies Good news! if you would like to distribute a viewing link to each student in your class, you have the option to book per student. (link) Tickets are $10 per student. If you would like to broadcast a performance to your class in a group setting, you have the option to purchase a per classroom option.

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Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564 and died in 1616. Although his plays were written 400 years ago they are full of characters, dilemmas and stories we all still recognise. The Shakespeare Learning Zone gives you loads of information about Shakespeare's plays.

You'll find key facts, key scenes, pictures from past productions, videos of actors and directors working on and performing the plays AND find out about all the main characters and how they relate to each other.

Whether you want to know a little or a lot, this site has the information you need.

Just choose a play and enjoy!

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Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Join us online, on the road, or in Washington, DC.

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Easily create beautiful interactive video lessons for your students you can integrate right into your LMS. Track students' progress with hassle-free analytics as you flip your classroom!

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Videos in the Drama Arts Toolkit collection include the history and elements of theater as well as a behind-the-scenes look at theater production from the planning stages to the final performance. Through live performances and interviews, the collection represents a wide variety of cultures, periods, and styles of drama.

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PBS LearningMedia | Teaching Resources For Students And Teachers

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It's time to improve literacy skills during social studies instruction and ensure that readers of all abilities have what they need to access grade-level social studies concepts.

Join us on Thursday, December 7 for a look at scaffolded materials that provide extra literacy support while building key social studies concepts and skills.

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Frank X Walker (Photo by Rachel Eliza Griffiths)

The term "Affrilachia" was originally coined by Frank X Walker. In reference to the region of Appalachia, a mountain range stretching over thirteen states along the East Coast of the U.S. from Mississippi to New York, Affrilachia is an ever-evolving cultural landscape poised to render the invisible visible. Affrilachia embraces a multicultural influence, a spectrum of people who consider Appalachia home and/or identify strongly with the trials and triumphs of being of this region. Since 1991, the Affrilachian Poets have been writing together, defying the persistent stereotype of a racially homogenized rural region. Through their writing and the very existence of their enclave, the Affrilachian Poets continue to reveal relationships that link identity to familial roots, socio-economic stratification and cultural influence, and an inherent connection to the land.

This website will be frequently updated. Check back regularly for news and scheduled readings!

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Home Page - NEA EdJustice

NEA EdJustice engages and mobilizes activists in the fight for racial, social and economic justice in public education.

Get connected and engaged to advocate for racial and social justice in our schools and communities.

Find tools to take your education justice activism to the next level

Explore our curated resources to get information, build your organizing skills, and inspire others.

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Find inspiring stories, connect with others and get involved in culture change for racial and social justice in education.

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Redefine how your students learn vocabulary.

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Flashcard Factory was designed to transform the way students engage with vocabulary. When you play Flashcard Factory students pair up and work together to create dynamic and engaging flashcards. Students collaborate to illustrate and define terms, making learning vocab an active and social experience!

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Confronting the Weaponization of Whiteness in the Classroom

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Confronting the Weaponization of Whiteness in the Classroom

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It's easy to recognize and then call out blatant anti-Black racism caught on video. We can observe for ourselves racial slurs, exaggerated fear and the privilege of whiteness forcefully taking up space. In recent weeks, there hasn't been a shortage of these spectacles. We've seen white women and white men manufacture distress to justify calling the police on Black people doing benign things such as working out at a gym, sitting on a park bench or relaxing at a hotel pool.

Perhaps the most disturbing recent incident that led to a broader discussion online about racism happened in May. While the video lit the internet abuzz, the conversation halted the next day, when protests related to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police grabbed the nation's attention.

In the infamous video, a white New York City woman called 911 on a Black man in a secluded section of Central Park. The man had insisted that she put a leash on her dog.

Understanding how minor disputes have led to the death of Black people, the Black man began recording the interaction. In the video, the woman's tone went from calm to frightened in a matter of seconds.

"I'm going to tell them there's an African American man threatening my life," she told him.

She then made sure to mention twice to the 911 dispatcher that an African American man threatened her and her dog before heightening to a more panicky tone.

"I'm being threatened by a man in the Ramble; please send the cops immediately!"

Many people who viewed the viral video were stunned by the woman's overreaction and lobbied support for the Black man. Viewers quickly commented that this behavior is reminiscent of the Jim Crow-era rhetoric white women used when they made unsubstantiated accusations against Black men, often leading to lynchings. It is a clear example of the weaponization of whiteness.

But weaponizing whiteness happens in classrooms every day, and it's not perpetrated only by educators who are openly racist or explicitly biased against students of color. As we've witnessed in viral videos, individuals who consider themselves progressive or non-racist also exhibit this behavior. White supremacist or anti-Black attitudes don't belong to one ideology, one political party or a particular geographical location. Since both anti-Blackness and white supremacy are baked into America's foundation, they often play out in our daily lives.

The weaponization of whiteness typically happens this way: There is a sense of entitlement, anger and need for retaliation, then feigned fear and, finally, white fragility.

Black students aren't exempt from this experience. White educators must acknowledge this pattern of behaviors so that they won't inflict harm on Black students.

Unpacking the Patterns

A notable observation we can make when a white person calls the police on a Black person is that they display a sense of entitlement. The caller feels they belong in that space-and the Black person does not-and believes they have the authority to police that person.

This behavior is replicated in classrooms when teachers or administrators refuse to allow the questioning of authority. Research has shown that teachers tend to police Black students' responses to their authority more closely, perceiving Black students as exhibiting more " challenging behavior"-such as "willful defiance," "insubordination" and "disrespect"-than others. Black boys in particular are seen as four and five years older than they are, according to an American Psychological Association study. This adultification allows police and even educators to justify dehumanizing them. Similarly, a Georgetown Law study confirmed that Black girls are less protected and punished more severely in school than white girls.

Outside of schools, if a Black person challenges white entitlement, that entitlement sometimes turns into anger and retaliation. Similar responses happen in schools. We've described numerous times in our Hate at School reports when teachers react violently against Black students who challenge their authority. Whether they pull their hair or call the police, it always leads to more harm for the student, including trauma.

When all else fails, an educator might feign fear. White educators understand how racial profiling and their perceived fear will get a quick response from law enforcement. Countless times, educators call school resource officers into a classroom to manage student behavior-knowing that there is a possibility the situation could escalate quickly.

A white female principal in Houston understood this very well when she told three staff members about a Black student with special needs who runs from class often. "We won't chase him," she reportedly said. "We will call the police and tell them he has a gun so they can come faster."

She continues to work as a principal at that school. It's unclear if she faced any disciplinary action or received training to address the implications of what she considered was a joke.

The most offensive incidents in school often make it to the news. That's when gaslighting happens or white fragility shows up. Teachers will either assert they had a right to react the way they did or claim the child was acting violently. The teacher becomes the victim. Sometimes they cry.

In a Philadelphia education blog, some Black teachers recounted how white female teachers in particular use tears to gain sympathy or further assert their power.

One teacher explains: "When white women cry, there is a villain somewhere in the white imagination. History has viewed white women as prized possessions to be protected, so their tears have represented danger, terror, and death for Black people. Men going to war with armor is the same as white women waging war through tears."

A Repeating History

Black people may not be surprised by the centuries-old tactic of weaponizing whiteness, but that doesn't make it less traumatizing. White people may assume that someone who hasn't committed a crime shouldn't worry when the police are called on them, but that assumption ignores history and an insidious system that hands out justice disproportionately.

Police interactions that lead to loss of life for Black people-regardless of whether a crime happened-are well documented. We know that the weaponization of whiteness has historically led to the deaths of people like Emmett Till and residents of Rosewood, Florida.

And during a pandemic, shuffling Black people into police custody -when Black people are disproportionately dying from COVID-19-is a sure way to inflict harm.

Black Lives in School Haven't Mattered

When white educators weaponize their whiteness to affirm their authority, they could change the trajectory of a Black child's life. Data shows that Black students are disproportionately disciplined and pushed into the school-to-prison pipeline. An Education Week analysis found that Black students in 43 states and the District of Columbia were more likely than other students to be arrested while at school.

Black students are heavily policed in schools, from their hair and dress to their language and behavior. Early in life, they experience surveillance in the same way adult Black people do: They are followed, profiled, searched and assumed to be menaces. There are metal detectors and sometimes excessive force when police do get involved.

These scenarios are obvious instances of the criminalization of young Black students. It should go without saying that teachers and other school personnel should not call the police on students for minor issues. As we've said here before, the presence of police on school campuses often creates more conflict. Police should never take the lead in a situation that doesn't pose a physical threat to people's well-being.

As we witness an uprising against abuse of power, it's not acceptable to claim that educators, when calling the police on students, don't mean to cause harm. The intent doesn't matter. Educators are knowingly ignoring students' well-being, especially Black students', when they call the police on them or when they counter any and every challenge to their authority.

This constant barrage of harm creates both physical and mental health issues for Black students. They're trying to survive in systems that weren't designed for them to succeed. But educators must pledge to first do no harm. Black minds do matter.

Educators must recognize and stop these patterns. Dismantling a culture of punitive justice and over-policing at schools requires an all-hands-on-deck approach. It means doing some internal work first -confronting biases and actively working against them. And this work shouldn't end there. It's critical that educators reach out to other educators in a school community to urge them to do the same. As a collective, educators can realize their power to challenge the status quo. They can push school board members, superintendents and other school leaders to help shift school culture to an environment free from weaponized whiteness, police intimidation and trauma.

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It's a new year, and whether you've been with us for years or you're just finding us now, it's a great time to brush up on a few of the ways that TT can support you today and throughout the year.

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Principles for

Culturally Responsive Teaching

Culture is central to learning. It plays a role not only in communicating and receiving information, but also in shaping the thinking process of groups and individuals. A pedagogy that acknowledges, responds to, and celebrates fundamental cultures offers full, equitable access to education for students from all cultures.

Culturally Responsive Teaching is a pedagogy that recognizes the importance of including students' cultural references in all aspects of learning (Ladson-Billings,1994).

Some of the characteristics of culturally responsive teaching are:

Reference:

Ladson-Billings, G. (1994). The dreamkeepers. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishing Co.

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Principles for Culture is central to learning. It plays a role not only in communicating and receiving information, but also in shaping the thinking process of groups and individuals. A pedagogy that acknowledges, responds to, and celebrates fundamental cultures offers full, equitable access to education for students from all cultures.

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Culturally Responsive Teaching for Science

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Culturally Responsive Teaching for Science

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A vortex ring is a circular shaped ring of spinning gasses that move together as a unit. A vortex ring can happen in liquid or gasses, but are rarely seen because they happen inside of liquids or gases. When a vortex ring happens inside of suspended particles-as in the smoke rings which are often produced by smoke they can be seen. Visible vortex rings can also be formed by the firing of certain artillery, in mushroom clouds, and in microbursts.[1][2]

A vortex ring usually tends to move in a direction that is perpendicular to the plane of the ring and such that the inner edge of the ring moves faster forward than the outer edge. Within a stationary body of fluid, a vortex ring can travel for relatively long distance, carrying the spinning fluid with it.

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Bonnie Lewis / September 15, 2021

Elementary classes have a lot of curricula competing for airtime. Reading, math, writing, and many other vital and worthy topics fill the day. During a packed day, how can social studies inquiry fit into the schedule? Moreover, students get worn down and weighed down with everything they are expected to learn from the disciplines. Sometimes [...]

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We began this COVID season with a group of teachers generating a set of compelling questions. What is the balance between freedom and security? Will a virus heal the partisan divide? How will disease change the world? When this list of questions was first published, no one knew if we could answer them but, like [...]

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Who would think helicopters flying over your house would lead to an inquiry about slavery, the cotton industry and the Panic of 1837? Then again, it is 2020. I live in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania near the iconic Philadelphia Museum of Art. The "Art Museum" is a gathering place for celebrations, running up the "Rocky" steps and [...]

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The Inquiry Design Model The Inquiry Design Model (IDM) is a distinctive approach to creating curriculum and instructional materials that honors teachers' knowledge and expertise, avoids overprescription, and focuses on the main elements of the instructional design process as envisioned in the Inquiry Arc of the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for State [...]

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Culturally Responsive Teaching

A middle school math project gives students a chance to apply the skills they learn in class to an issue they care about.

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Contrary to popular belief, math is more than just numbers, algebraic formulas, and ancient algorithms. It can serve as a vehicle to help our students make sense of the world in which we live, but current events and real-world issues have generally been integrated only into subjects such as English, science, and social studies-math has been considered its own little island.

After years of searching for lesson plans and resources that would help me bridge the gap between math and real-world issues, I decided to create my own unit project to do that. I polled my seventh-grade students to find the right topic and created a three-week project that focused on the intersection between law enforcement and communities of color in Boston. Other topics of interest to them included immigration, poverty, homelessness, pollution, and creating more youth jobs in our economy-there are many possibilities for this kind of work.

A 4-Step Process for Connecting Math to Students' Lives

1. Selecting the topic or issue: I started with the idea that the topic would have to be relevant to the racial and cultural composition of my students, and to the communities in which they lived. The best way to select the topic was to ask them what would really matter to them. My students, who were predominantly African American and Latinx, chose the topic of police brutality because it had personally impacted them.

If you try this, choosing the right topic will guarantee a high level of student engagement throughout the project. You can create an interest survey or questionnaire to give your students so they can share in great detail the real-world topics they would like to explore-this might work better than initially asking them to discuss ideas as a whole class, as it takes some pressure off.

Once you've determined the topic, write it up as an open-ended focus question that your students will work toward answering throughout the project. For the topic of police brutality, I worked with my students to come up with the focus question: "Can more diverse police forces prevent instances of racial profiling?"

2. Gathering background information: The next big question for a math teacher is, "What specific data points are needed to effectively answer the focus question?" Since students are going to explore the topic through a mathematical lens, you'll need to consider what quantitative data points they can study in order to draw their own conclusions about the topic.

These data points-statistics, graphical representations, geometric diagrams, or functional relationships, for example-must not only be available for contextualization within the scope of the topic but also accessible to your students so that they can apply the appropriate math skills. My project highlighted national stop and frisk statistics, population data, and demographic data on police officers as data points that would help answer the focus question.

In addition to the quantitative data your students will use in their math work, they need qualitative data-news reports, books, etc.-to more deeply understand the issue they're exploring. In my opinion, gathering this information is the most difficult step of the process because you have to compartmentalize your personal biases, which can influence how your students think about the topic. You need to present the multiple perspectives that people have about the issue so that your students have the information necessary to build background knowledge and develop their own thinking around the issue.

Primary sources are the most reliable information sources to use because they're original and were written or created during the time of the issue. Examples of primary sources include manuscripts, books, newspaper articles, historical documents, videos, photographs, and interviews. In other words-and they'll probably ask-students should not use Wikipedia.

3. Identifying math skills and connecting them to standards: Once you've identified the appropriate data points, you'll want to determine the specific math skills your students will use to analyze the data points and construct mathematical arguments.

The math skills should be developmentally appropriate for the grade level you teach: Recognizing that our racial profiling unit was heavily focused on statistical concepts, I determined that students could analyze the data points using such skills as conversions between rational numbers (decimals, fractions, and percentages), measures of central tendency (mean, median, and mode), and two-way frequency tables.

Next, you'll need to align the math skills you've identified to the appropriate academic standards for your state, whether that's the Common Core State Standards or the academic standards for your state. Identify the standards that best align with the math skills that you expect your students to master for this lesson.

4. Determining the final work product: Finally, in thinking about the product your students will produce, you need to take into account their diverse academic needs. If you teach in an inclusive classroom setting, I highly recommend that you collaborate with the special education teacher on this step. They can assist you in creating a scaffolded or modified version of the final work product that is developmentally appropriate for each individual student receiving instructional support.

For this project, I gave students three options for the final product. They could participate in a whole-class Socratic seminar and engage in dialogue with each other by providing textual and statistical evidence that would support their response to the focus question. The second option was to write a letter to the police commissioner to express their concerns around the issue of racial profiling by law enforcement in Boston, including relevant data to support their argument. The final option was to write a paper stating their argument, with statistical evidence to support it and at least two solutions they thought would address the issue. My students opted for a whole-class Socratic seminar.

Ultimately, the final product should provide multiple access points for the diverse learners in your class and allow them to best demonstrate mastery of math skills and their knowledge of the topic.

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NowComment has the most sophisticated collaboration tools available for group discussion, annotation, and curation of texts, images, and videos.

It displays threaded commenting alongside the sentences and paragraphs of texts, the areas of images, and timestamps of videos to create engaging online conversations literally in context. Brainstorm, debate, and collaborate as never before!

Now GPT Thinking Partners can bring the power of the latest OpenAI Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPTs) to your NowComment conversations!

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Upload and discuss documents with people you invite or with the whole Internet ("Public Documents") at no cost!

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Interesting comments can be found quickly (they're tied to relevant document passages), and summary lines make skimming fast and easy.

Powerful

Any sentence, paragraph, image, or video can have multiple conversations, keeping discussions focused and on-topic.

Simple to Use

Our interface is intuitive, your documents are accessible wherever you are, and we do the hosting and maintenance.

Feature-Rich and Scalable

NowComment has the features to handle very large groups: notifications, assignments, subgroups, moderation, and more.

Read It Your Way

By default comments are off to the side (with multiple sort options!), but you can also display comments in-line.

Collaborate with AI in Comments & Replies

Introducing GPT Thinking Partners

Create your own versions of ChatGPT to be your
Reading Buddy, Writing Coach, Research Assistant, or Learning Puppet.
NowComment'sGPT Thinking Partners are GPTs (Generative Pre-trained Transformers)
designed to take you to new levels as a reader and a writer.

Write your own text of any genre or upload one from a Web Site, PDF or Word Doc.

Choose a sentence, paragraph, or the whole document. Click the button to Ask AI then select a GPT Thinking Partner. Pose a question and add a description of yourself if you would like, then wait for the results.

Critically read the output from OpenAI that comes to you in an edit box. You can also Resubmit and Resubmit to choose from alternative results. Edit the output of the results you choose so that it is helpful (for other users), honest (about the facts), and harmless (free of bias).

Hit Start conversation and see how a GPT comment is posted in context showing that this was written by a GPT Thinking Partner and edited by you. You and others can reply to any GPT-collaborated comments with human-only replies or with another GPT Thinking Partner.

Your work with OpenAI is free and anonymous on NowComment. No separate login is required and no identifying data is transmitted to OpenAI. The content you submit through NowComment is not being stored by OpenAI to train their models.

With the click of a button, you can deploy NowComment's Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPTs) next to any document on NowComment. You can select from a bevy of brilliant GPTs.

We have designed these GPTs to be Thinking Partners who are always available to be your personal mentor, tutor, coach, teammate, student, simulator, or tool. GPT Thinking Partners don't just correct your writing or summarize a text; they help you to become a stronger writer and a more thoughtful reader.

NowComment's GPT Thinking Partners shape and transform the output you receive from the same Large Language Models that power ChatGPT. With NowComment's GPT Thinking Partners you make your own ChatGPTs to fit your specific needs as a reader and writer. You will be inspired by the control our GPT Thinking Partners give you over how to integrate AI into your own creative and thinking processes.

There are over 60 GPT Thinking Partners to choose from already (with more coming all the time)! And since there are so many, to guide your choice, we have organized them into the seven approaches for students that Dr. Ethan Mollick and Dr. Lilach Mollick describe in a recent paper, "Assigning AI," as briefly described in the next section, below.

We also invite you to make your own GPT Thinking Partners. NowComment is a platform where we learn with and about Artificial Intelligence.

Detail the persona of the best GPT Thinking Partner you can imagine having. Itemize for that character the reading strategies you want them to employ. Specify the output that you want to receive. Test and test until you have taught your GPT Thinking Partner how you want it to respond to the texts of any genre that you are reading or writing and uploading to NowComment. Become a prompt engineer.

AI as Tool: Extending Performance

We are learning together how to use GPTs as tools to extend our thinking. These can translate, adapt, and transform text. They can give you a prompt for creating an image and more. See Mollick & Mollick (2023) for more.

Use NowComment to add daily logs on one document each week. Also add images and videos. Invite others to comment. Use GPT Thinking Partners beside your freewriting, jottings, exploratory logs. Upload a new document each week for you logs, then collect these weekly log documents and things you are reading into a Personal Collection. This collection becomes your GPT Dialogue Notebook.

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