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This art curriculum is designed to give each student a basic understanding of what was happening in the art world during major events in history. Art can be a very effective tool for studying the history of the world. The artist is a lot like a historian, but in a visual way. When an artist uses his or her art form to depict social, political, and emotional events in his or her life we understand history in a deeper, much richer way. History affects art and art reflects history. The two are inseparable.

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Drawing on History - Homeschool Art History Lessons Cover a Full Year of Required High School Fine Art Credits

Looking for a way to teach homeschool art lessons and art history at home or in a group setting? Drawing on History - high school art curriculum - is a hands on, art lesson approach to art history and art appreciation. This unique homeschool art curriculum is designed and written for homeschool or independent study high school students by a homeschool mom with a degree in Communication Design and Illustration.

Drawing on History covers one year of required high school fine arts credits and can be used individually or in a group setting. Drawing on History homeschool art curriculum gives the student an overview of many of the major art movements from Romanticism of the 1830s to Psychedelic art of the 1960s with super fun art projects.

This book was written to parallel the Beautiful Feet Modern U.S. and World History (for Senior High) curriculum, but can stand alone or be used to enhance any world history curriculum by teaching hands-on art lessons for each time period. While creating art in the style of the masters, students will gain a better understanding of world history and art history as they unfold together.

Detailed Art Lesson Plans Are Included

Drawing on History just got easier! Barbara Biggs, homeschool teacher and mother of four, used Drawing on History with her daughter and developed a detailed lesson plan for her and her daughter to follow. Barbara's lesson plan comes from the perspective of a non-artist mom and teacher, who needed a method to measure her student's comprehension of each chapter in Drawing on History. Well done Barbara and thanks for being willing to share this with all the Drawing on History teachers and students!!

This extra resource includes: Art Quizzes, Tests, Mid-term, Final Exam, and Answer Keys, which are FREE in the Resource Center with a purchase of Drawing on History.

Art Lesson Resource Center

Purchase the book and receive the password to the Resource Center. The Resource Center is loaded with valuable lesson support, tips, art, videos, free project downloads, AND Barbara's lesson plans and tests.

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Homeschool Art Lessons: Homeschool art curriculum and art history lessons at home or in a group setting. Drawing on History - high school homeschool art history curriculum is a full year of fun and engaging homeschool art curriculum lesson projects which cover a full year of required high school fine art credits.

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Hosts Mindy Thomas and Guy Raz guide curious kids and their grown-ups on a journey into the wonders of the world around them. We'll go inside our brains, out into space and deep into the coolest new stories in science and technology.

Hosts Mindy Thomas and Guy Raz guide curious kids and their grown-ups on a journey into the wonders of the world around them. We'll go inside our brains, out into space and deep into the coolest new stories in science and technology.

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An educational, fun-filled app that empowers your preschooler to test engineering concepts and solve problems. Design machines and roller coasters, build towers with robots, and problem solve through an obstacle course! Learn STEM concepts with your child as they experiment with simple engineering tools.

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Play and Learn Engineering is an educational, fun-filled app that helps your kids learn through play. Explore and learn engineering concepts with games that grow with your child. Design machines and roller coasters, build towers with robots, and problem solve through an obstacle course. Learn STEM concepts with your child as they experiment with simple engineering tools.

Early learning games for preschoolers help your child develop a better understanding of the world around them. Our app empowers your preschooler to test engineering concepts and solve problems on their own. Use early learning tools that allow the app to grow with your child.

Our family games encourage parents and children to learn together. The parent section is an award-winning tool that helps you guide your child’s learning both in and outside the app.

PLAY AND LEARN ENGINEERING FEATURES

ENGINEERING GAMES – 8 educational games for kids

Sandwich Machine – Design and build a whimsical machine to move a sandwich from one place to another.

Animal Feeder – Build a sandwich machine to feed your hungry animal friends.

Track Tracer – Construct and build a roller coaster that takes your friends on a wild ride with lots of hills and loops.

Roller Adventure – Design a roller coaster track that goes up, down, and around obstacles.

Robo Builder – Build a tower by stacking boxes and testing simple physical science concepts.

Kitty Rescue – Construct a tower high enough to help the kitty climb down from the tree.

Cavern Crawler – Problem solve using simple machines such as pulleys and levers to go around or remove obstacles and get through the cavern.

Lava Leaper – Don’t fall into the hot lava as you problem solve to avoid obstacles and reach the exit of the lava cave.

ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS

Explore each game! Design and build to get familiar with basic engineering tools.

Learn and grow! Problem solve and test concepts to pass each level.

FAMILY GAMES

Parent Section - Get tips for activities and games that engage your child in STEM education.

Early learning activities encourage your preschooler to take their engineering design skills beyond the app.

Educational games for kids that were developed with early childhood experts.

ABOUT PBS KIDS

The Play and Learn Engineering app is part of PBS KIDS’ ongoing commitment to helping kids build the skills they need to succeed in school and in life. PBS KIDS, the number one educational media brand for kids, offers all children the opportunity to explore new ideas and new worlds through television and digital media, as well as community-based programs.

For more PBS KIDS apps, visit www.pbskids.org/apps.

ABOUT READY TO LEARN

The Play and Learn Engineering app was created as part of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and PBS Ready To Learn Initiative with funding from the U.S. Department of Education. The contents of the app were developed under a cooperative agreement (PR/Award No. U295A150003, CFDA No. 84.295A) from the U.S. Department of Education. However, these contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.

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Here you will find resources for Open Social Studies, which is an inquiry-based and literacy-focused social studies curriculum for Grades K-6.

Starting in the early elementary grades, all children should receive regular instruction in the social studies, which includes history, civics, geography, and economics. However, there are real pressures on schools and teachers to increase the amount of instruction in other subject areas, which often comes at the expense of their social studies time.

This curriculum was built to help teachers in K-6 schools regularly enact powerful and authentic social studies in their classrooms that will also meet essential literacy goals (linking every lesson to the Common Core State Standards).

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Stack the States® makes learning about the 50 states fun! Watch the states actually come to life in this colorful and dynamic game!

As you learn state capitals, shapes, geographic locations, flags and more, you can actually touch, move and drop the animated states anywhere on the screen. Carefully build a stack of states that reaches the checkered line to win each level.

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Stack the States® makes learning about the 50 states fun! Watch the states actually come to life in this colorful and dynamic game!

As you learn state capitals, shapes, geographic locations, flags and more, you can actually touch, move and drop the animated states anywhere on the screen. Carefully build a stack of states that reaches the checkered line to win each level.

You earn a random state for every successfully completed level. All of your states appear on your own personalized map of the United States. Try to collect all 50! As you earn more states, you begin to unlock the four free bonus games: Map It, Pile Up, Puzzler and Capital Drop. Four games in one!

HAVE FUN LEARNING ALL ABOUT THE 50 STATES:
▸ Capitals
▸ State shapes
▸ Abbreviations
▸ Bordering states
▸ Location on the map
▸ Nicknames
▸ Flags
...and more!

FEATURES:
▸ Hundreds of unique questions
▸ Interactive map and 50 state flash cards
▸ Choose any of the 50 friendly-looking states as your avatar
▸ Create up to six player profiles
▸ Collect all 50 states and track your progress on a personalized map
▸ Earn FREE bonus games: Map It, Pile Up, Puzzler and Capital Drop
▸ High resolution pictures of famous US landmarks
▸ All games are powered by a realistic physics engine
▸ Fun sound effects and music
▸ iPhone 4 and new iPad Retina Display support
▸ Works on both iPhone and iPad - a universal app

FIVE GAMES IN ONE:

STACK THE STATES: Build tall piles with states and try to reach the checkered line.

MAP IT: Tap the location of the selected state on the map. Try to complete the whole country.

PILE UP: The states are piling up! Tap them quickly to get rid of them before they pile too high.

PUZZLER: Sit back and relax as you slide the states around and put them together like a jigsaw puzzle.

CAPITAL DROP: Match states with their capitals in this fast-paced bonus game. Don't let a state fall!

Stack the States® is an educational app for all ages that's actually FUN to play. Try it now and enjoy five games for the price of one!

PRIVACY DISCLOSURE
Stack the States®:
- Does not contain 3rd party ads.
- Does not contain in-app purchases.
- Does not contain integration with social networks.
- Does not use 3rd party analytics / data collection tools.
- Does include links to apps by Dan Russell-Pinson in the iTunes App Store (via LinkShare).

For more information on our privacy policy please visit:
http://dan-russell-pinson.com/privacy/

Version 2.9.1

- Added support for the new iPad Mini

Fun, quick, educational

There are absolutely no advertisements or pop-ups in this app. I play it on i-phone and iPad. There are several games in Stack The States, but you cannot play them all immediately. You have to win enough states to advance to a new game, so success relies on some prior knowledge. This is not going to teach kids to identify the states if they are clueless to begin with, but it will reinforce what they know, and add to their sense of confidence or self-efficacy.
Playing the Stacking game is educational because you have to identify the state given 4 choices, but it's also funny. I love watching the states' facial expressions - the look in their eyes - as the stack wobbles or falls.
My only quibble is that the state flags are too small to read clearly. I wish they would expand quite a bit larger when I tap it.
There is another game where you have to place the states on a map as fast as possible, but with 3 strikes you're out. Good fun. Works better on iPad than iPhone, due to size.
The other games in the app are okay, too, but stacking and mapping are my favorites.

Worth the Money but...

I downloaded stack the states when I was only 9. In just 2 or so weeks of obsessively playing it, I knew so much more about the states than I did before and had collected over 120 states!
I do wish that the updates were placed on the same app, because I wouldn't pay anything for the second version now that I know quite a bit about the states, but still like the new elevation maps and mini games the second version provides.
Also, I wish that you could transfer the app between two devices. I got stack the countries on my Samsung Galaxy S9 phone and want to transfer it to my iPad without having to buy it again. I also got pretty far in the app (received over 120 countries) and don't want to start over.
Thank you for reading this review, I really love the app!

Amazing app, but...

I love this app so much that I actually posted about it on Facebook and encouraged friends to get it too. I got it for my kids but I play too.

I do have one complaint... when playing the hard level of puzzler, Rhode Island is placed on the far left edge of my screen and I find it impossible to grab and drag. This is on an iPhone 11. If it were on the right side, I could at least put the rest together and then hover them over it to pick it up, but it's too far on the left. It often takes me 20+ seconds to keep stabbing my finger at it to get enough contact to move it. I would hope it could be corrected, but with the last update being four years ago, I'm not holding my breath...

The developer, Freecloud Design, Inc., indicated that the app's privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

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Information

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Freecloud Design, Inc.

Compatibility

iPhone

Requires iOS 11.0 or later.

iPad

Requires iPadOS 11.0 or later.

iPod touch

Requires iOS 11.0 or later.

Mac

Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip.

Age Rating

4+, Made for Ages 9-11

Family Sharing

Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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John McCoy (lulilaš) Since Time Immemorial: Tribal Sovereignty in Washington State

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In 2015, the Legislature passed In 2024, the Legislature passed Senate Bill 5433 modifying the original 2005 legislation, now requiring the Since Time Immemorial: Tribal Sovereignty in Washington state or other tribally-developed curriculum be taught in all schools. House Bill 1879 naming the curriculum in honor ofJohn McCoy The use of the Since Time Immemorial curriculum has been endorsed by all 29 federally recognized tribes.

Ready to Go Lessons

To support the continuous teaching and learning you are providing your students, these "Ready to Go" lessons have been shared by Tribes and educators to provide you with quick access to a variety of complete lessons to implement along with or in addition to the tribal sovereignty curriculum.

Teacher to Teacher & Librarian Implementation Videos

Looking for ideas on how to implement the Since Time Immemorial tribal sovereignty curriculum in your classroom? Across your district? Educators across the state share their ideas, lessons, and resources with you.

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Special Topics

Amplify Our Ancestors or How to Decolonize Your Classroom Teacher-to-Teacher Keynote presented by Shana Brown - 2021 Presentation slides

American Indian Studies and Intersectionality with Ethnic Studies with Gail Morris and Shana Brown June 22, 2021, Elementary School Presentation - June 23, 2021 Middle School Presentation - June 24, 2021, High School Presentation- Presentation Slides

Land Education Teacher Professional Development: Lummi Nation and Western Washington University with Cynthia Wilson, Renee Swan-Waite, Rena Priest, Anna Lees, Dolores Calderon. Opening poem shared by Rena Priest, Washington state Poet Laureate - June 22, 2021 - Presentation Slides

All Grade Levels Elementary Middle School High School

The tribal sovereignty curriculum uses three approaches:
An inquiry based approach with five essential questions:

1. How does physical geography affect the distribution, culture, and economic life of local tribes?

2. What is the legal status of tribes who "negotiated" or who did not "negotiate" settlement for compensation for the loss of their sovereign homelands?

3. What were the political, economic, and cultural forces consequential to the treaties that led to the movement of tribes from long-established homelands to reservations?

4. What are ways in which Tribes respond to the threats and outside pressure to extinguish their cultures and independence?

5. What do local Tribes do to meet the challenges of reservation life; and as sovereign nations, what do local Tribes do to meet the economic and cultural needs of their Tribal communities?

A place-based approach. Our approach encourages teachers and students to address the essential questions in the context of tribes in their own communities.

An integrated approach. Teachers choose how much time to spend on tribal sovereignty content to complete their units throughout the year. The integrated approach provides three levels of curriculum for each of the OSPI-recommended social studies units, each level building on the last. Tribal sovereignty lessons are aligned to the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts. Where appropriate, units build toward successful completion of Content Based Assessments (CBA).

The Office of Native Education within the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction frequently schedules tribal sovereignty curriculum trainings.

This work has been created in partnership with private and public agencies and the Federally Recognized Tribes in Washington State. We express our gratitude to all the contributors to this effort. Without their support and expertise, this resource would not be possible. Please be aware that any adaptations should be considered carefully so as not to impact this thoughtfully crafted content design or introduce any unintended cultural bias.

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Teen walks at graduation after completing doctoral degree at 17

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A teenager from Chicago walked in her graduation ceremony this month after earning her doctoral degree at 17.

Dorothy Jean Tillman II told " Good Morning America" that she was homeschooled in her early years before entering college at age 10.

In 2020, she said she earned a Master of Science degree, and then, one year later, at age 15, was accepted into the Doctorate of Behavioral Health Management program at Arizona State University.

In December 2023, at 17, Tillman successfully defended her dissertation to earn her doctoral degree in integrated behavioral health from ASU's College of Health Solutions.

On May 6, she walked at ASU's spring commencement ceremony.

Tillman told "GMA" she has always held education in such high regard in part due to her family's background.

"People in my life like my grandmother, who was part of the Civil Rights movement, she of course harped on the importance of education and consistently learning something always," Tillman said. "But the way I always held education so high on my own, aside from being raised that way, was finding different things to be educated about."

She continued, "I feel like that urge to learn something new just never didn't exist for me."

Dr. Lesley Manson, a clinical associate professor at ASU, told "GMA" that Tillman is the youngest person in school history to earn a doctoral degree in integrated behavioral health.

Manson said she oversaw Tillman's dissertation for the doctoral program offered through ASU Online.

During her studies, Tillman wrote a journal article of her dissertation and completed an internship at a university student health center, according to Manson.

"She really led change and worked on different forms of management to really reduce healthcare stigma and improve that student population there to be able to enter and accept student health services," she said of Tillman. "It was wonderful to see her and help her navigate some of those personal and professional interactions and grow through those experiences."

Manson described Tillman as an "inquisitive" and "innovative" student, and emphasized just how rare it is to accomplish what she has so far.

"It's a wonderful celebration ... but this is still something so rare and unique," she said. "She has innovative ideas and motivation, which is wonderful, and truly, I think what is inspiring is that she embodies that meaning of being a true leader."

Manson said she hopes Tillman continues to inspire people with her love of learning, saying, "That curiosity is always there, and I think all learners come with that, but it's great to be able to see it in someone so young as well."

Her inspiration and how she gives back to community

Tillman said her own journey wouldn't be possible without the support of her mom, who she said is one of her biggest motivators.

"Seeing my mother consistently work so hard to continuously uphold our family's legacy, and be that person that everyone was able to go to, if they needed anything ... always seeing [her] like [a] 'wonder woman' definitely made me want to grow up [into] an accomplished person," she said.

An advocate for education, Tillman is also the founder and CEO of a leadership institute that emphasizes the arts and STEM.

"I feel like adding art and putting a focus on it throughout science, technology, engineering and math makes the kids excited to learn all those things," she said. "And it opens them up to all of the possibilities and all the knowledge provided in that area of just STEM."

As for her plans after graduation, Tillman said she is "just like any other teenager, still figuring out what my specific dreams and goals are."

"I'm really just grateful that the world is my oyster, and that I've done so much so young," she said. "And I have time to kind of think that through."

Tillman added that she hopes young people will take away from her story that it's OK to continually figure out what you want to do in life.

"Always remember that everyone has points in their life where they feel like they're figuring it out," she said. "And so figuring things out, not knowing what you want isn't a bad thing. But making the choice not to sit down and try to figure it out is."
Editor's note: This story has been updated with additional quotes from Tillman since its original publish date of May 13, 2024.

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Oak Meadow's homeschool CURRICULUM is based on rigorous academic standards, integrated with personalized, student-centered education.

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Independent homeschool by purchasing the curriculum: You will be responsible for registering with your school district or state Department of Education (DOE) as a homeschooler and satisfying state requirements for reporting your progress. Every state is different, so we recommend you research guidelines in your state and district. You can see complete descriptions of our materials by visiting our online Bookstore. For those who are using our curriculum on their own but occasionally need some guidance, our Homeschool Support (available on our Bookstore) lets you consult with an experienced teacher when you need help.

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Here, you'll discover all sorts of awesome art lessons, from drawing to painting, and even some super cool origami. Whether you're a beginner or a budding artist, there's something fun for everyone!

I'm Rob, and along with my amazing wife, Teryn, and our four creative kids, Jack, Hadley, Austin, and Olivia, we make art together as a family and love sharing it with you. ❤️

Ready to jump in and start creating?

Most of our art lessons are self-contained, so grab your favorite black marker, some paper, and your coloring supplies, and let's get drawing! 🖍️📒

Join us on this colorful adventure, and let's make art that brings smiles and joy. Happy

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A huge thank you to DK Books for making this dream come true. Your support has meant everything to us, and we are deeply grateful.

It's filled with easy-to-follow lessons that emphasize fun and creativity, allowing kids to draw in their own unique way and be proud of what they create. And with both kid and adult versions of every drawing, families can enjoy being creative together, making art that's as unique as you are.

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Where To Watch Our Lessons

There are several places to watch our art lessons. Each place provides a different experience and benefit.

YouTube (free/ads)

You can watch many of our art lessons on YouTube for free with ads ( visit our Channel here). You can watch through a desktop computer, the YouTube mobile app ( Android and iTunes), or even through the YouTube app on a smart TV.

YouTube Kids (free/ads)

If you have some concerns with your children using YouTube, be sure to check out the YouTube Kids app for mobile ( Android and iTunes). You can watch many of our lessons for free with ads on the YouTube Kids app. Visit our channel on YouTube Kids, don't forget to subscribe. Log in through your YouTube/Google account for more parental controls. Did you also know you can watch YouTube Kids on a desktop? Just visit youtubekids.com!

ArtForKidsHub.com (free/ads)

You're already here on this website! This site is a great option for more focus and fewer distractions. You can watch many of our lessons for free with ads, just visit our blog page. The videos on this website are hosted and embedded from YouTube. This means that you'll receive the same ads/commercials you would see on YouTube but you won't see videos from other channels.

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Become an Art Hub member and eliminate YouTube/Google ads and YouTube distractions. The membership also gives you access to watch our lessons through our dedicated mobile and tv apps. Save lessons to a personal playlist and download lessons for offline viewing. Visit artforkidshub.tv to learn more and join.

Latest Art Lesson

To find more art lessons for kids use the search and navigation bar above, or browse through our blog!

Art Supplies

Would you and your kids like to use the same art supplies we use? Here's what we love using:

Marker paper to draw on

Art For Kids Hub Markers

Colored pencils (sometimes we also use Prismacolor colored pencils)

If you'd like to purchase the same art supplies we use, visit our Art For Kids Hub shop or our Amazon Art Shop. Each art supply in our shop I have purchased and love. We participate in Amazon's Associate Program. As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

Parents and teachers,

We hope you and your kids find a love for art and drawing that lasts a lifetime. If you ever have questions, concerns, or even suggestions you can find us on Facebook, Instagram, or even directly through our contact page. Your kind words and support mean the world to us and allows us to continue making art lessons. Thank you!

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Art For Kids Hub - Art Lessons - How To Draw For Kids

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Welcome to Art For Kids Hub! Here you'll find all kinds of art lessons for kids, including how to draw for kids, even painting and origami for kids.

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Discover and bond through the magic of art, without the headache of looking for the right activities and the right supplies. We have created art kits just for you and your children. Our kits come with everything you need and easy to follow, step-by-step instructions, so you can focus on what matters: learning and making art like an artist, creating and bonding together.

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Beast Academy is the math curriculum we wish we had as kids — one meant to spark “Aha!” moments and ignite the joy of problem solving for the next generation of intellectual leaders.

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Beast Academy is the elementary school math program created by Art of Problem Solving, a global leader in advanced K-12 math education. AoPS is training the intellectual leaders of the next generation by preparing motivated students for college and career success.

At Beast Academy, we believe in teaching advanced math concepts early, so students build a problem solving foundation for more advanced math and science classes in the years to come. Learn more about us.

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Beast Academy | Advanced Math Curriculum for Elementary School

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Beast Academy is advanced math curriculum for your child at home. Choose books, online, or both to advance gifted kids in grades 1 to 5.

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The NLVM Computer App is an enhanced offline version of the NSF supported National Library of Virtual Manipulatives (NLVM) for K-12 mathematics. It boasts an NSF supported library of uniquely interactive virtual manipulatives for K-12 mathematics instruction. Features include: Print Image, Save Work, Configure, and Make Activity. Install on any Mac or Windows computer.

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Enhanced offline version of the award winning National Library of Virtual Manipulatives

Engage your students in conceptual discussions using mathematically rich interactives

Convey mathematical concepts using interactive visual representations

What is Matti Math?

The NLVM Computer App is an enhanced offline version of the NSF supported National Library of Virtual Manipulatives (NLVM) for K-12 mathematics. It boasts an NSF supported library of uniquely interactive virtual manipulatives for K-12 mathematics instruction. Features include: Print Image, Save Work, Configure, and Make Activity. Install on any Mac or Windows computer.

A Brief History

Teachers of mathematics for centuries have helped students understand mathematics using "manipulatives"-- visual objects that help illustrate mathematical relationships and applications. Manipulatives allow students to visually examine, explore and develop concepts.

The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives (NLVM) at Utah State University has transported these powerful teaching tools into the virtual dimension of the computer. The NLVM collection of over 100 interactive software programs, called "applets," are an effective means for accelerating and deepening students' understanding of math.

The NLVM development team consists of mathematicians, math educators and instructional design experts at Utah State University.

The National Science Foundation provided funding for creation of the National Library of Virtual Manipulatives and eNLVM.

Ongoing development of new activities and functionality is supported by NLVM retail sales.

Matti Math's Origin

MATTI Math was founded as MATTI Associates LLC in 2001. The Utah-based partnership's purpose is to select quality educational software and facilitate awareness and distribution to applicable markets. The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives CD is its premiere product. MATTI Math will be distributing products that add to the NLVM's functionality, as well as future additions to the NLVM's activities.

MATTI Math is the NLVM's official licensee, expanding distribution and supporting ongoing development of this award-winning resource.

The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives has received numerous honors, including:

- Math Forum Hot Spot of the Month

- Education World, Best of 2001

- Math Cats Spotlighted Website

- Techlearning Site of the Day

- Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education Digital Dozen

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Getting Started with Primary Sources - Library of Congress

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Primary sources are the raw materials of history — original documents and objects that were created at the time under study. They are different from secondary sources, accounts that retell, analyze, or interpret events, usually at a distance of time or place

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Naomi O'Brien's Read Like a Rockstar Blog

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Not Your Average Turkey Unit

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We love a good turkey lesson in November. They're festive, they're fun, they're cute,...but much like apples and pumpkins, our kids are seeing similar content Pre-K to around 2nd grade when it comes to some thematic units. What if we can keep the turkeys, but offer them a bit more?

Enter: Not Your Average Turkey Unit! We wanted to keep the turkeys, but ditch the basic turkey crafts and coloring sheets. Here's what we came up with:

We planned a week of meaning activities under the umbrella of social studies. We kept the turkeys, but went deep with the content!

Do your students know what it takes to raise a turkey? They'll have the opportunity to learn all about being a turkey farmer through this fun STEM project! They've inherited a friend's turkey farm and they need to keep the place in business.

How did the turkey get its name? From Turkey, of course! No, really! It's true. Turkeys, however, are indigenous to the United States and Mexico. When European colonizers came to North America in 1519, they saw bird that reminded them of birds they saw in Europe that came from Turkish merchants. They thought they were the same bird and the rest is history!

When turkeys aren't living on a farm, where can you go to find them? Boom, now we have a geography connection! Did you know that wild turkeys can be found in swamps, grasslands, and forests? These are the perfect habitats for them because they are full of seeds, fruits, nuts, insects, and small lizards to eat.

Why does turkey cost less around Thanksgiving when it is in high demand?
We read The Cost of Turkeys eBook and find out why turkeys cost less even when the demand goes up!

Starting in 1947, turkeys in America have been taking a trip to the White House to visit the president. It has become a special tradition. While other presidents have pardoned turkeys, this didn't become an annual occurrence until George. H. W. Bush pardoned a Thanksgiving turkey in 1989.
After we learn all about this tradition, we let our students pretend to be the president and choose whether or not to pardon a turkey. They also pretended to be a turkey trying to get pardoned!

We hope you enjoyed these ideas!

We have many units that follow a similar format!

Have fun teaching!

Naomi & LaNesha

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Tabb + O’Brien Social Studies Club Membership

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Tabb + O’Brien Social Studies Club Membership

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When we were in the classroom, we both had a special place in our hearts for social studies lessons. We admit we didn't always make time for it or value it as much as we should, but once we decided to lead culture-centered classrooms, our lives and the lives of our students were forever changed.

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PBS Learning Media Social Studies Resources

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Explore the past and learn about the present with resources on government, history, economics, and more.

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Learning for Justice seeks to uphold the mission of the Southern Poverty Law Center: to be a catalyst for racial justice in the South and beyond, working in partnership with communities to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements and advance the human rights of all people.

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Learning for Justice is a community education program of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) that centers civic and political action education for everyone.

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Without LGBTQ history, there is no American history. From Learning for Justice and hosts Leila Rupp and John D'Emilio, Queer America takes listeners on a journey that spans from Harlem to the Frontier West, revealing stories of LGBTQ life we should have learned in school.

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Without LGBTQ history, there is no American history. From Learning for Justice and hosts Leila Rupp and John D'Emilio, Queer America takes listeners on a journey that spans from Harlem to the Frontier West, revealing stories of LGBTQ life we should have learned in school.

This podcast is produced in partnership with University of Wisconsin Press, publishers of Understanding and Teaching U.S. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History. It is the first book designed for high school and university teachers who want to integrate LGBTQ history into their standard curriculum.

Listen to each episode individually, or subscribe for automatic downloads using:

Queer America is an exploration of the history of sexual identity and gender identity in the United States. Leila Rupp and John D'Emilio host this new podcast from Learning for Justice-a resource to help educators integrate LGBTQ history into their curriculum.

From the Gold Rush to the Cold War, Historian Daniel Hurewitz offers strategies for integrating LGBTQ History into your curriculum. He shares lesson examples from U.S. history and insights from educators already teaching queer history in their classrooms.

In a fascinating conversation with host Leila J. Rupp, historian and writer Genny Beemyn brings us inspiring-and surprising-stories of trans and gender nonconforming figures, from the Frontier West to the modern civil rights movement and beyond.

Lessons from the classroom-from high stakes testing to critical thinking skills-professor Emily Hobson & public school teacher Felicia Perez discuss their experiences and practical advice to help you incorporate LGBTQ History.

We're passing love notes across time. Historian Susan K. Freeman takes a deep dive into the history of women who loved women-and offers ways for educators to connect love letters to lessons on culture, women's rights movements and literary themes.

Lifelong partnerships between women existed long before the legalization of gay marriage. Susan K. Freeman continues her exploration of the spaces they found-in their words, their societies and their homes-for same-sex intimacy.

"If we teach only about the Red Scare, we're only telling part of the story of the Cold War." Historian David K. Johnson explores the systemic firing of gay government employees and the consequences of a homophobic culture that still endure today.

World War II plunged a double-edged sword into the heart of the U.S. queer community. Historian Susan Freeman examines how the war brought gay men and lesbians together, and the ways it isolated them from the right to serve and benefit from their service.

What can the private lives of public figures like Eleanor Roosevelt and J. Edgar Hoover tell us about their impact on U.S. history? Historian Claire Potter helps us navigate the relationships among identity, power and actions-and why we must teach them.

Don't start-or stop-with Stonewall. To understand not just LGBTQ history but all post-war U.S. history, students must see the 1960s in context. In this episode, Amnesty International's Ian Lekus dives into the minority-rights revolutions of the 1960s.

The revolution was intersectional. Amnesty International's Ian Lekus returns to discuss ways educators can highlight the many identities of 1960s activists and help students understand the roles LGBTQ people played in movements you already teach.

"Inequality directly affected the scope of the epidemic." Historian Jennifer Brier and CAARAC founder Shakita Jones discuss the history and structural discrimination surrounding AIDS, and how to approach these difficult conversations in the classroom.

Queer characters have existed on screen since the era of silent film. But do they have a starring role in your syllabus? Scholars Sharon Ullman and Nicholas Syrett offer concrete strategies for teaching LGBTQ history through films and documentaries.

On our season finale, join Learning for Justice Senior Writer Cory Collins and hosts Leila Rupp and John D'Emilio as they offer concrete tips for creating LGBTQ-inclusive classrooms and taking themes from this podcast into our daily practice.
Read the Best Practices for Serving LGBTQ Students Guide

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What we don’t know about American history hurts us all. Teaching Hard History begins with the long and brutal legacy of chattel slavery and reaches through the victories of and violent responses to the civil rights movement to the present day. From Learning for Justice and host Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Teaching Hard History brings us the lessons we should have learned in school through the voices of leading scholars and educators. It’s good advice for teachers and good information for everybody.

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Congressman Hakeem Jeffries represents New York's 8th congressional district. Our final episode this season takes us to the U.S. House of Representatives for a conversation between Rep. Jeffries and his brother, our host, Dr. Hasan Jeffries, to discuss the lingering effects of the Jim Crow era-including voter access, prison and policing reform, and other enduring injustices-and to discuss the continued relevance of teaching "hard history" as it relates to public policy today.

After emancipation, aspects of the legal system were reshaped to maintain control of Black lives and labor. Historian Robert T. Chase outlines the evolution of convict leasing in the prison system. And Historian Brandon T. Jett explores the commercial factors behind the transition from extra-legal lynchings to police enforcement of the color line. We examine the connections between these early practices and the more familiar apparatuses of today's justice system-from policing to penitentiaries.

From concertos to operas, Black composers captured the changes and challenges facing African Americans during Jim Crow. Renowned classical pianist Lara Downes is bringing new appreciation to the works of artists like Florence Price and Scott Joplin. In our final installment of Music Reconstructed, Downes discusses how we can hear the complicated history of this era with historian Charles L. Hughes.

When we consider the trauma of white supremacy during the Jim Crow era-what writer Ralph Ellison describes as "the brutal experience"-it's important to understand the resilience and joy that sustained Black communities. We can experience that all through the "near-comic, near-tragic lyricism" of the blues. In part 3 of this series, acclaimed musician, songwriter and poet Adia Victoria talks with Charles L. Hughes about how the bittersweet nature of blues does "the very emotionally mature work of acknowledging" this complex history.

Black political ideologies in the early 20th century evolved against a backdrop of derogatory stereotypes and racial terrorism. Starting with Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Agency, historian Minkah Makalani contextualizes an era of Black intellectualism. From common goals of racial unity to fierce debates over methods, he shows how movements of the 1920s and 1930s fed into what became the civil rights and Black Power movement.

From ranches to railroads, learn about the often unrecognized role that African Americans played in the range cattle industry, as Pullman porters and in law enforcement. In part two of this special series, Grammy Award-winner Dom Flemons takes us on a musical exploration of the American West after emancipation. "The American Songster" joins historian Charles L. Hughes to discuss the complexity of the sounds, songs and stories about the Jim Crow era.

This nation has a long history of exploiting Black Americans in the name of medicine. A practice which began with the Founding Fathers using individual enslaved persons for gruesome experimentation evolved into state-sanctioned injustices such as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, among others. Award-winning historian Dr. Deirdre Cooper-Owens details a chronology of medical malpractice and racist misconceptions about health while highlighting lesser-known stories of medical innovations by African Americans.

This is a special four-part series where historian Charles L. Hughes introduces us to musicians who are exploring the sounds, songs and stories of the Jim Crow era. In this installment, Jazz pianist Jason Moran discusses his acclaimed musical celebration of a man he calls "Big Bang of Jazz," bandleader, arranger and composer James Reese Europe. During World War I, Europe fought as a Lieutenant with the fabled "Harlem Hellfighters" 369th U.S. Infantry and directed the regiment's renowned band.

During the Harlem Renaissance, more Black artists than ever before were asking key questions about the role of art in society. Oftentimes the Harlem Renaissance is misconstrued as a discrete moment in American history-not as the next iteration of a thriving Black artistic tradition that it was. Literature scholar Julie Buckner Armstrong urges educators to look deeper into the texts left to us by these artists and come to a fuller understanding of this stage in a long chronology of Black artistic expression.

In the United States, Black athletes have had to contend with two sets of rules: those of the game and those of a racist society. While they dealt with 20th century realities of breaking the color line and the politics of respectability, Black fans, educational institutions, and the Black press were building sporting congregations with their own wealth and energy. Historians Derrick White and Louis Moore trace how these great men and women worked to create a more just future on the field and off.

Opportunities created by the New Deal were often denied to African Americans. And that legacy of exclusion to jobs, loans and services can be seen today in federal programs and policies as well as systemic inequities in housing, education, health and the accumulation of wealth. Historian Jill Watts examines the complicated history of the New Deal, beginning with the growing political influence of Black voters in the 1930s, the election of FDR and the creation of the Black Cabinet.

U.S. involvement in world wars and the domestic Black freedom struggle shaped one another. By emphasizing the diverse stories of servicemen and women, historian Adriane Lentz-Smith situates Black soldiers as agents of American empire who were simultaneously building their own institutions at home. While white elected officials worked to systemically embed segregation into government, African Americans attempted to bolster their citizenship and freedom rights through soldiering.

Historian Tera Hunter describes Black institution-building post-slavery and throughout the Jim Crow era, illustrating how Black workers reorganized labor to their advantage, despite virulent white resistance. During the same period, historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) produced future leaders while cultivating resistance to white supremacy-and continue to do so. Educator Jelani Favors explains the evolution of these institutions, noting their legacies of social activism and student advocacy.

Naming the 1921 Tulsa massacre a "race riot" is inaccurate. Historian David Krugler urges listeners to call this and other violent attacks what they were: premeditated attempts at ethnic cleansing. Decades before, African Americans moved North in record numbers during the Great Migration. Krugler delves into connections between diaspora and violence and highlights the strength of Black communities in resistance to white supremacist terrorism.

Black American experiences during Jim Crow were deeply affected by the ever-present threat of lynching and other forms of racist violence. Historian Kidada Williams amplifies perspectives from Black families, telling stories of lynching victims obscured by white newspapers. She and Kellie Carter Jackson urge educators to confront the role of this violence in American history, how major institutions stood idly by and how Black Americans fought for justice.

The Lost Cause narrative would have us believe that Confederate monuments have always been celebrated, but people have protested them since they started going up. Historian Karen Cox unpacks how the United Daughters of the Confederacy used propaganda to dominate generations of teachings about the Civil War through textbooks, legislation, and popular culture-and how, after the war, the South and the North prized white reconciliation over justice for all.

Just months after the Civil War ended, former Confederates had regained political footholds in Washington, D.C. In her overview of Reconstruction, Kate Masur notes how-in the face of evolving, post-slavery white supremacy-Black people claimed their citizenship and began building institutions of their own. Ahmad Ward then takes us to 1860s Mitchelville, South Carolina, where Black policing power, land ownership and more self-governance were the norm.

Historian Ed Baptist provides context on the creation and enforcement of a U.S. racial binary that endures today, as well as Black resistance as a force for political change. And Aisha White urges educators to ask themselves, "What did you learn about race when you were younger?" before they engage with children. She argues that self-reflection and ongoing education are vital tools to combat the fallacy of ignoring students' racialized experiences.

People from all corners of public life are telling teachers to stop discussions about race and racism in the classroom, but keeping the truth of the world from students simply doesn't work. English teacher Matthew Kay urges educators to create brave spaces instead. He provides examples of classroom strategies for engaging with students at the intersections of race, literature and lived experience. Hint: it involves vulnerability, accountability and quality affirmations.

This season, we're examining the century between the Civil War and the modern civil rights movement to understand how systemic racism and slavery persisted and evolved after emancipation-and how Black Americans still developed strong institutions during this time. Co-hosts Hasan Kwame Jeffries and Bethany Jay discuss how students need to grasp this history to understand injustices many of them face today, from voter suppression to mass incarceration.

In 2015, Coach Steve Bandura loaded the Anderson Monarchs, a Little League baseball team from Philadelphia, onto a 1947 Flxible Clipper Bus for a barnstorming tour back in time. Bandura and the players recount lessons learned while visiting historic civil rights sites, meeting veteran activists and playing baseball along the way. And historian Derrick E. White, co-host of The Black Athlete podcast, explores the intersection of sports and civil rights history.

The civil rights movement offers critical context for understanding the systemic police violence, voter suppression efforts, 'law and order' rhetoric and criminalization of activism we see today. It also helps us understand the strategies activists use to fight these injustices. Historians Shannon King and Nishani Frazier explain how they use 21st-century Black activism to teach the movement's history-and how they use the movement to help students better understand the contemporary Black freedom struggle.

The history of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense can help us understand the transition from civil rights to Black Power and contemporary issues like mass incarceration. From the Ten-Point Platform to survival programs, historian Robyn C. Spencer outlines key aspects of the party's revolutionary ideology, grassroots activism and community service. And historian Jakobi Williams joins to share valuable classroom insights.

Historian Clarence Lang joins us for a conversation about Malcolm X. We discuss his commitment to Black pride and self-determination and his rejection of the white gaze and the myth of American exceptionalism. Learn how teaching about the life and works of Malcolm X can illuminate the universe of possibilities of the civil rights movement-and the diversity of ideology, strategy and political thought within the Black freedom struggle.

In this episode, we talk with movement veteran Courtland Cox about lessons from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and his own development as a young organizer of the Emmett Till generation. We join Karlyn Forner and John B. Gartrell to tour the resources available through SNCC Digital Gateway. And we hear from student organizer Kaia Woodford about the lessons from the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements that inform her activism today.

Oral histories, historic sites, archives and museums expand students' understanding of the past. They fill in gaps in our textbooks-complementing what's included and capturing what's not. This episode highlights online oral history collections including the Civil Rights History Project. It offers recommendations for students conducting their own oral histories. And it explores resources from the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

Teaching civil rights history to young learners creates both opportunities and challenges. The 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project and the subsequent Freedom Schools offer important lessons for helping elementary students to understand the civil rights movement. In this episode, we explore community-based strategies and activities for bringing the Black freedom struggle into your classroom.

If you're finding this podcast useful, please support us by taking our 10 question Listener Survey. And stay tuned! More episodes are on the way. In the meantime, if you're looking for ways to talk with students about the relationship between the hard history of white supremacy and the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, Learning for Justice resources can help you lead student-responsive, historically grounded discussions about the recent violence.

From the hard work of organizing to the reality of everyday life under Jim Crow, films and literature can bring historical context to life for students. In this episode, we recommend several "must use" films, books, poems and plays for teaching the civil rights movement. We also discuss strategies for incorporating these works across the curricula and for turning even problematic texts into grist for meaningful critical discussions.

Everyone thinks they know the story, but the real history of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott is even better. This episode details the events that set the stage for Ms. Parks' civil disobedience. You'll meet the leaders and organizations who transformed a moment of activism into a 13-month campaign. And you'll learn about the community that held fast in the face of legal and political attacks, economic coercion, intimidation and violence.

To fully understand the United States today, we have to comprehend the central role that slavery played in our nation's past. That legacy is also the foundation for understanding the civil rights movement and its place within the history of the Black freedom struggle. This episode is a special look back at our first season. It explores and expands on the 10 Key Concepts that ground Learning for Justice's K-12 frameworks for teaching the hard history of American slavery.

You cannot teach the civil rights movement without talking about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. But it's critical that students deconstruct the mythology surrounding the movement's most iconic figure to learn about the man, not just the hero. The real Dr. King held beliefs that evolved over time. A complex man, he was part of a much larger movement-one that shaped him as much as he shaped it.

The civil rights movement was never strictly a Southern phenomenon. To better understand the Jim Crow North, we explore discrimination and Black protest in places like Milwaukee, Omaha, Cleveland and New York. To examine the Black Freedom Movement beyond the South, we examine the Black-led fights to gain access to decent housing, secure quality education and end police brutality in these cities.

Armed resistance and nonviolent direct action co-existed throughout the civil rights era. In this episode, three historians confront some comfortable assumptions about nonviolence and self-defense. Wesley Hogan examines the evolution, value and limitations of nonviolence in the movement. Christopher Strain offers a three-part strategy for rethinking this false dichotomy in the classroom. And Akinyele Umoja offers insights about armed resistance from his research in Mississippi.

Alice Qannik Glenn is the host of Coffee and Quaq and assistant producer of The Forgotten Slavery of our Ancestors. This short, classroom-ready film offers an introduction to the history of Indigenous enslavement on land that is currently the United States. This new resource from Learning for Justice features an extensive group of experts, many of whom will be familiar to listeners from Season 2.

Jim Crow was more than signs and separation. It was a system of terror and violence created to control the labor and regulate the behavior of Black people. In this episode, historian Stephen Berrey unpacks the mechanics of racial oppression, the actions white people took-in and beyond the South-to maintain white supremacy, and the everyday ways Black people fought back. And the directors of the film An Outrage join ELA-teacher Ahmariah Jackson to discuss teaching the racial terror of lynching.

Music chronicles the history of the civil rights struggle: The events, tactics and emotions of the movement are documented in songs of the era. From The Freedom Singers to Sam Cooke, historian Charles L. Hughes explains how your students can use music for both historical insight and evidence in the classroom.

Students don't enter our classrooms as blank slates. When it comes to the civil rights movement, we often have to help our students unlearn what they think they know while we're teaching them what actually happened. The people were more complex, the strategies more complicated and the stakes more dangerous than we like to remember. In this episode, historian Nishani Frazier and social studies teacher Adam Sanchez demonstrate the value of teaching the movement from the grassroots up.

Teaching the civil rights movement accurately and effectively requires deconstructing the myths and misconceptions around it. Most people are familiar with a very specific version of the movement that exaggerates government support and denies the existence and persistence of racism outside the South. Julian Bond called this the "Master Narrative." It celebrates sanitized icons and downplays grassroots organizing. And it overhypes nonviolence while disparaging self-defense and Black Power. In this episode, we talk with historian Nishani Frazier and social studies teacher Adam Sanchez about how to separate fact from fiction in your civil rights teaching.

The systems that enabled and perpetuated African and Indigenous enslavement in what is now the U.S. have much in common, and their histories tell us a great deal about the present. Professors Bethany Jay and Steven Oliver join us to talk about connections between the first two seasons and how to teach them, and we preview what's to come in season three.

In this special call-in episode, listeners share their stories and questions from throughout season 2-including teaching remotely, working with families and stakeholders, and incorporating social justice into subjects like math and science. As educators, we're strongest when we support each other. And you'll hear great suggestions from fellow teachers, like these resources we discuss from Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia.

It's time for our first call-in show! We know things are chaotic for you and every other educator right now. We feel it too, so this seems like the perfect time to talk. Pick up the phone and dial 888-59-STORY (888-597-8679). Our lines are open until Sunday night, April 19. Teaching hard history is even harder right now, so let's talk about resources you can use if you're teaching virtually. Ask us your questions; tell us your stories. And let us know how you're doing.

Indian Removal was a brutal and complicated effort that textbooks often simplify. It is also inseparably related to slavery. Enslavers seeking profit drove demand for Indigenous lands, displacing hundreds of thousands of Indigenous people. Some of these Indigenous people participated in chattel slavery. Focusing on the Chickasaw and Choctaw nations, this episode pulls the lens back to show how Removal and enslavement must be taught together. This story must be told if we're going to understand the full hard history of American enslavement.

The Americas were built on the lands, labor and lives of Indigenous peoples. Despite being erased from history textbooks after the so-called first Thanksgiving, Indigenous peoples did not disappear. Colonial settlers relied on the cooperation, exploitation and forced labor of their Native neighbors to survive and thrive in what became North America. Focusing on New England, historian Margaret Newell introduces us to the Charter Generation of systematically enslaved people across this continent.

From 1936 to 1938, the Federal Writers' Project collected stories from people who had been enslaved. The WPA Slave Narrative Collection at the Library of Congress is a valuable resource; these oral histories are also problematic. Interpreting these narratives within literary and historical context, students can develop primary source literacy. Historian Cynthia Lynn Lyerly outlines unique insights these texts can add to your curriculum.

To better understand the United States' past and present, we need to better understand Indigenous identities-and classrooms play a huge role. This starts with examining what's missing from our social studies, history, civics and government curricula. Throughout this episode, we reference the K-5 Framework for Teaching Hard History as we shed light on key topics like sovereignty, land and erasure.

Educators can no longer ignore our country's history of Indigenous enslavement. Our students need a fuller understanding of the pivotal history of slavery to comprehend the present and develop a vision for our nation's future. In this mid-season recap, we highlight key lessons about this consequential part of American history-along with teaching strategies and resources-through the voices of leading scholars and educators featured so far.

Throughout the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, the forced labor and bondage of Indigenous peoples was integral to the economic and political history of what became the Southwestern United States. Historian and author Andrés Reséndez outlines the significance of silver mining, Indigenous enslavement and resistance in the history of New Mexico and Latin America. We examine how, as white settlers moved west, so-called "free soil" states like California continued to institutionalize coerced labor.
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A hundred years before the first ship carrying enslaved Africans arrived in Virginia, Europeans introduced the commercial practice of enslavement in "The New World." And for the next 400 years, millions of Indigenous people throughout the Americas were enslaved through several forms of forced labor and bondage. Historian and author Andrés Reséndez calls this "The Other Slavery," and his work is changing our understanding of the transatlantic slave trade.
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Andrés Reséndez is the author of The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America. His work has changed conventional wisdom about the institution of slavery in the Atlantic world. Over the next two episodes, host Hasan Kwame Jeffries and Reséndez will discuss key turning points in this history-exploring how it expands our understanding of the transatlantic slave trade and the lasting legacy of colonialism, which continues to reverberate in our communities. Be sure to join us.
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Each autumn, Thanksgiving brings a disturbing amount of inaccurate information and troubling myths into classrooms across the United States. Most students don't learn much about the history of Native nations-and even less about Indigenous peoples today. Dr. Debbie Reese explains what to look for and what to avoid (or teach with a critical lens) when selecting children's books by and about Indigenous people. She also recommends specific books to counter common misconceptions in your classroom.
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Children's books are often the primary way young students are exposed to the history of American slavery. But many books about slavery sugarcoat oppression. Professor Ebony Elizabeth Thomas examines what we should consider when it comes to how children's books portray African Americans and Indigenous people, their cultures and the effects of enslavement. She also explains why it's crucial to create "a balance of narratives" when selecting books about marginalized and underrepresented communities.
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For elementary teachers approaching the topic of slavery, it can be tempting to focus only on heroes and avoid explaining oppression. But teachers' omissions speak as loudly as what they choose to include. And what children learn in the early grades has broad consequences for the rest of their education. Dr. Kate Shuster guides us through the new Teaching Hard History K-5 framework from Learning for Justice. We also learn how four elementary teachers are beginning to use it in their classrooms.
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Understanding Indigenous enslavement expands our conception of slavery in what is now the United States. It spread across the entire continent and affected millions of people of different backgrounds. If we define slavery too narrowly, we can fail to see its persistence over time and even its modern-day permutations. Historian Christina Snyder examines the Civil War, Lincoln and emancipation with Indigenous people in mind.
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Millions of Indigenous people lived in North America before European colonial powers invaded. Along with an insatiable desire for free labor, Europeans brought a system of slavery that significantly differed from the historical practices of enslavement among Native nations. Historian Christina Snyder tells the story of what happened when these worlds collided. European concepts of bondage transformed the way Native nations interacted with each other, resulted in the enslavement and death of millions of Indigenous people, and sparked widespread resistance by Native nations.
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The Smithsonian's Eduardo Díaz and Renée Gokey discuss the importance of learning about Indigenous enslavement. And former Teaching Tolerance Director Maureen Costello explains all of the program's classroom resources available for teaching this history, including a first-of-its-kind K-5 framework.
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We're turning our attention to the enslavement of Indigenous people, spending more time with teachers in the classroom and adding support for K-5 educators. Tune in next week for more advice about teaching the history and long legacy of American slavery.
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Historian Bethany Jay returns - answering questions from educators across the country. Host Hasan Kwame Jeffries and the co-editor of Understanding and Teaching American Slavery confront teacher anxieties and counter misconceptions in our season finale.
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From elementary to high school, YA literature can introduce fundamental themes and information about slavery, especially when paired with primary sources. John H. Bickford shows how to capitalize on the strengths and weaknesses of trade books about slavery.
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Using the present to explore the past. Tamara Spears and Jordan Lanfair suggest a Social Studies unit about Resistance & Kanye West, and a set of English Language Arts lessons examining holidays to understand the legacy of American slavery.
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How it's done. Tamara Spears teaches middle school Social Studies in New York and Jordan Lanfair is a high school English Language Arts teacher in Chicago. Each has been developing additional lessons about slavery for years. They share their experiences.
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Enslavement didn't end with Emancipation. Historian James Brewer Stewart discusses modern-day slavery happening across the world-and right here in the U.S.-showing educators how to connect the past with the present.
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A listener's question leads to a meaningful moment. And now we want more! Take a listen, then email us to tell us your story about teaching hard history for an upcoming, special episode.
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At James Madison's Montpelier, the legacy of enslaved people isn't silenced-and their descendants have a voice. Christian Cotz, Price Thomas and Dr. Patrice Preston Grimes explain how that happened, and why it's important.
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In the United States, justice was never blind. Historian Paul Finkelman goes beyond legal jargon to illustrate how slavery was entangled with the opinions of the Court-and encoded into the Constitution itself.
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Constitutional historian Paul Finkelman explains the deeply racist bargains the founding fathers struck in order to unify the country under one document and discusses what students need to know about how slavery defined America after the Revolution.
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Film historian Ron Briley returns with more documentary, feature film and miniseries suggestions for history and English instructors. From Ken Burns to Black Panther, this episode offers background and strategies for incorporating pop culture into classroom lessons.
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Film has long shaped our nation's historical memory, for good and bad. Film historian Ron Briley offers ways to responsibly use films in the classroom to reframe the typical narrative of American slavery and Reconstruction.
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Most students leave school thinking enslaved people lived like characters in Gone With the Wind. Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens reveals the remarkable diversity of lived experiences within slavery and explains the gap between what scholars and students know.
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To see a more complete picture of the experience of enslaved people, you have to redefine resistance. Dr. Kenneth S. Greenberg offers teachers a lens to help students see the ways in which enslaved people fought back against the brutality of slavery.
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Students learning about slavery often ask, "Why didn't enslaved people just run away or revolt?" Lindsay Anne Randall offers a lesson in "Process Drama"-a method teachers can use to answer this question, build empathy and offer perspective.
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In many ways, the U.S. has fallen short of its ideals. How can we explain this to students-particularly in the context of discussing slavery? Professor Steven Thurston Oliver has this advice for teachers: Face your fears.
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Follow the money. Dr. Christy Clark-Pujara explains why American slavery couldn't have existed without a national commercial infrastructure that supported and benefited from the labor of enslaved people.
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Dr. Bethany Jay is back to talk about teaching the end of the Civil War, and how enslaved people's participation in the war helped subvert the institution of slavery.
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What really caused the Civil War? In this episode, Salem State University Professor Bethany Jay offers tips for teaching lesser-known history that clarifies this question and cuts through our cloudy national understanding of the Confederacy.
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When Haley Taylor Schlitz graduated from her Texas homeschooling high school program at age 13, she said she was simply moving at her preferred pace.

"It was never like 'I'm doing this because I want to graduate early.' That has never been the goal. It's always been about where I needed to be," Schlitz told Know Your Value.

But she wasn't finished. Three years later, Schlitz graduated from Texas Women's University at age 16. And on Friday, Schlitz, now 19, became the youngest Black woman ever to graduate law school, at Southern Methodist University's Dedman School of Law.

Schlitz was born in Los Angeles but attended a customized homeschooling program in Keller, Texas. Her education was overseen her physician mother, and her father, a political campaign manager.

"I completed geography in about three months and moved on, for example. It was my natural pace, and my education was personalized," she said. "There was also a curriculum for students who were right on time, who can go with the flow. I had a lot of socialization because I could attend in-person college-style classes twice a week. It was wonderful."

Schlitz said she was by far the youngest student at her college and law school, but that she was immediately accepted by both communities.

"It really wasn't as dramatic as people might think. College and law school were both very diverse. When people found out I was young they'd think 'Oh, that's so cool how'd you do it?' and move on. Then we'd get back to our group project, because we're all just there at the end of the day studying for exams," she said.

Schlitz is currently prepping for the bar exam, which takes place at the end of July. She is hoping to enter the field of educational policy.

"Standard K-12 education has not been updated, fundamentally, in a very long time. I would like to help amend that on a national and state-wide level," she said.

When asked what advice she had for ambitious scholars like herself, Schlitz shared five keys to success:

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Schlitz did not complete her schooling all by herself. She had the support and inspiration of her family and mentors throughout her journey, including her godmother, California Congresswoman Barbara Lee. Schlitz advised everyone to lean on their own structures.

"You don't walk any road alone. You can't do anything by yourself. You stand on the shoulders of giants, and there are great trees in your forest. Listen to their wisdom and to the tools they are giving you," she said.

2. Manage your time to include YOU time.

Schlitz is clearly accomplished when it comes to meeting deadlines, but, she also values socializing and relaxation time. She advised scheduling these things, and not just assuming that they will happen. Schlitz said she makes time for her hobbies and passions, like hanging out with her friends, playing harp and videogames.

"Time management is key. Get your assignments in on time, study, take advantage of your learning opportunities, but also schedule time for yourself and with your friends," she said. "Actually schedule it, so it's like a promise to yourself. You know that you're going to get free time later, so you can approach studying in a more relaxed way."

3. Make your path, don't wait for it.

Schlitz was highly proactive when it came to her education. While her path is not for everyone, she advised people to forge their own way, and not to wait around for something to happen.

"You don't find your path, you make it," she said. "Keep that ambition. You're not going to find a golden path with lights saying 'here's all the success you've ever dreamed of.' You have to accept that we're life workers and life learners. And if you don't like how something looks, that's an opportunity to repave the road and change the direction of your life."

4. You can live and learn outside of the box.

Schlitz's fluid education taught her that people don't have to be bound by mainstream, traditional paths. Her upbringing made her realize that people can exist outside of the box across institutions, whether they're dealing with school, work or family.

"Make sure you remember that you are unique," said Schlitz. "You know you best. You can listen to what people have to say, but you're not handcuffed by that. Have your dreams. We get caught in mainstream systems, but most people aren't cookie cutter."

5. Change doesn't happen overnight.

Though Schlitz graduated law school faster than most people, she said she will gladly move at a slower pace when it comes to changing the world.

"It's hard to accept, but big change doesn't happen overnight," said Schlitz. "I say this to myself as a member of Gen Z: be ready to make the world better than you found it, but making a difference is a long game. Don't expect to finish, even in your lifetime. Sometimes change takes generations."

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By the time LaToya Brooks began homeschooling her three daughters last fall, the Atlanta mother had to ask herself: Why didn't I do this sooner?

A former public school band teacher, Brooks said she was largely inspired by the grim pandemic realities of her kids' schooling: Her 7-year-old, born late in the year, was stuck in kindergarten even though she knew the alphabet and could already read. Her 9-year-old was being bullied at a private Christian school, while her oldest, a 16-year-old rising film and TV actress, was simply too busy for typical school calendars.

"At the end of last school year, I was like, 'I don't think I can do this again,'" Brooks said.

So she quit her job - her husband still teaches music - and began homeschooling all three girls.

Brooks' experiences sync with those of many parents who have turned to homeschooling since the pandemic. A November survey from the online education platform Outschool found that this group is increasingly concerned about the quality of education their kids are getting in school. They're also more likely to be politically centrist or liberal and less likely to homeschool for religious reasons.

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Other recent research suggests that they're also more likely to be non-white: The U.S. Census Bureau in 2021 reported that homeschooling among Black families exploded in the school year following the start of the pandemic, from 3.3% in spring 2020 to 16.1% that fall.

In the Outschool survey, which tapped 622 homeschool families in August, Black families comprised 9% of respondents, but the results didn't probe whether there has been a rise in these families. The survey did find, however, that parents' concerns around racism in school during the pandemic rose: Among pre-pandemic homeschoolers in the survey, just 2% said racism was their No. 1 reason for leaving school; among newer homeschoolers, the figure was 5%.

And it found that the reasons families began homeschooling in the past year are "shifting away from being a values-driven decision to an environment-driven decision."

Among other findings:

12% of new homeschooling parents said their decision was primarily because their child's neurodiversity wasn't supported in traditional schools, up from 7% before the pandemic;

Just 1% of new homeschooling parents said their No. 1 reason was based on religious beliefs, down from 14% of parents already homeschooling who said the same;

47% of new homeschoolers described themselves as "progressive" or "liberal," up from 32%;

6% of new homeschoolers said they had conservative viewsvs. 27% of pre-Covid homeschoolers.

Significantly, few parents said their decision, either in 2020 or 2022, was based on politically charged issues such as vaccines or schools' political stances.

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Outschool co-founder Amir Nathoo said the findings suggest that parents are homeschooling for many reasons, including having children whose learning differences "weren't being satisfied by the local school."

Homeschooling families have traditionally valued its flexibility, Nathoo said. "But now what we're seeing come bubbling up is just: Pure quality is a top concern."

Alessa Giampaolo Keener, who directs the Maryland Homeschool Association, said the pandemic "changed a lot about homeschooling," including the number of families willing to give it a try: In March 2020, just before widespread school closures, she counted fewer than 28,000 homeschoolers statewide. That figure now stands at about 45,000.

Keener noted that the recent uptick, especially in Black homeschoolers, stems from many public schools being caught "completely unprepared" in 2020. Educators "absolutely did the best that they could, given the circumstances. But it was a hot mess for a lot of kids."

Tracking homeschooling is a bit slippery. The National Home Education Research Institute in September said about 6% of school-aged children, or 3.1 million students, homeschooled in the 2021-2022 school year, up from 2.5 million in spring 2019.

The journal Education Next, using Census Bureau data, in February reported that the percentage of U.S. households with at least one child being homeschooled essentially doubled from spring 2020 to fall 2020, from 5.4% to 11.1%.

Many of these parents said they were finding education at home "to be an exhausting undertaking." One-fourth said they didn't plan to continue.

Pandemic Learning Pods in Year Two 'Find Their Legs,' But Face Limitations

But Alex Spurrier, who studies policy at the consulting firm Bellwether, said recent polling shows the pandemic has helped break a kind of psychological link in parents' minds between education and a five-day, in-person school week. For many families, learning from home "worked really well and probably opened their eyes to a different way forward."

As a result, he said, "it doesn't look like we're on a path to heading back" to pre-pandemic ideas about homeschooling.

One-on-one attention, bullying trump religious reasons

Michael McShane, director of national research for the research and advocacy group EdChoice, said the Outschool findings echo research his organization has done recently.

"When we asked people why they homeschool, things like religious reasons or political reasons, those were at the bottom of the list," he said. At the top: School shootings, bullying, school violence, and wanting more one-on-one attention for their children.

McShane said his school choice work has changed his outlook on things like the socialization that homeschoolers enjoy. His conversations with their parents shine a light on the often "tremendously negative" experiences many students have had in school. "I can't tell you how many parents were like, 'Let me tell you about the socialization my kid got: It was getting the crap beaten out of them,'" he said.

Homeschooling researchers have also long noted that a top reason Black families often give for turning to homeschooling is racism in schools - particularly against young boys of color. Black homeschoolers, McShane said, often say they "just didn't think their schools were respecting them, or respecting their kids, or treating them fairly. And so they wanted to kind of strike out on their own."

Bellwether's Spurrier said more families are likely interested in more flexible learning environments like homeschooling or microschools if the barriers to entry are lower. He's keeping an eye on places like Arizona and West Virginia, which are both experimenting with generous education savings accounts for families.

Singing, dancing, being kind

In Atlanta, Brooks has discovered an extensive network focused on helping Black homeschoolers thrive - she has even begun posting humorous videos that encourage other Black homeschool moms. "It's been awesome, just being able to talk to people that look like me, that are probably going through the same thing."

Like many families find, homeschooling has allowed her kids to focus less on grades and more on interests.

Brooks now posts joyous TikTok and Instagram videos of herself and her kids as they sing, dance, take field trips, and meet people like Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams at public events. They've lately been trying out advanced harmonies in an informal family a capella group.

Brooks said she's also able to focus more on character education, a top priority that she said doesn't get much love in school.

"We learn how to have conversations with each other," Brooks said. "And I've seen from the beginning of the school year til now that they've changed drastically. They'll catch themselves if they're not being nice to their sister. They're like, 'I'm sorry, I didn't mean to yell like that.' Those kinds of things are happening without me telling them. And so I just know for sure it's working."

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An Arizona teen is getting ready to graduate this spring with not only his high school diploma but also three college degrees.

Tristan Andrade started taking online college courses when he was in the sixth grade. By eight grade, he joined the concurrent enrollment program offered by Estrella Mountain Community College, which let him take college classes both online and in person while he finished his home-school high school curriculum.

"It would save me years of time and money and really helped me pursue my interests faster," the 17-year-old told "Good Morning America."

Tristan Andrade is set to graduate on May 12 with a high school diploma and three associate's degrees.

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Rey Rivera, the president of Estrella Mountain Community College, told "GMA" although there are approximately 1,500 students who participate in the community college's early college programs, including concurrent enrollment, Tristan's story is a "very unique" one.

"We're extremely proud of Tristan," Rivera said.

"I've heard of cases where students have certainly completed an associate's degree while in high school. It's just the number -- having three associate's -- that's not really common," he added.

Tristan will graduate next Friday with associate's degrees in artificial intelligence, computer science and mathematics.

"AI is definitely my favorite because it's my passion and it's the field that I hope to go into," he said.

Tristan has been homeschooled and enrolled in Estrella Mountain Community College's concurrent enrollment program to take college-level courses.

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Tristan has a lot to celebrate already but said he has much more he wants to accomplish.

"It feels amazing. I've been working up to this moment my whole life and it just means a lot to me because it marks the beginning of a new chapter of my journey," the teen said.

This fall, Tristan is headed to Arizona State University, where he hopes to major in artificial intelligence and computer science and get his bachelor's and master's degrees in an accelerated 4 + 1 program.

Tristan will receive associate's degrees in artificial intelligence, computer science and mathematics.

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For other young students looking to follow in his footsteps, Tristan said he "strongly" recommends taking high school and college courses concurrently to get a head start and save on time and money.

"The biggest piece of advice I can give to others doing this is to really make as many connections as possible and to really learn from others as much as you can," Tristan said. "I learned so much valuable experience from my classmates, years of real world experience that I just don't have."

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Elijah Muhammad has achieved something not many 13 year olds can brag about: He's a college graduate.

The young teen recently walked the stage at Oklahoma City Community College after earning an associate's degree in computer science and cybersecurity.

Elijah told ABC News affiliate KOCO that he also has 10 IBM certifications, one Google IT certification and is pursuing a bachelor's degree at Oklahoma State University.

"My dad has a homeschool program called Pro One Collegiate Academy and it basically accelerates your learning into things that you're interested in," Elijah told "Good Morning America." "So, since I was interested in cybersecurity, it accelerated me in that and I was able to go to college early."

Elijah said he would often catch the attention of other students in his community college courses, with some thinking that another adult in the classroom was babysitting him.

Elijah Muhammad receives his degree from Oklahoma City Community College.

"I told them that I was actually in this class [at] my age -- they were surprised at first," he said. "They thought I would just be quiet in class. But when I asked questions and I was interacting with the class, they were more surprised."

Elijah's older sister Shania Muhammad told KOCO her brother is "the smartest person I know."

"And regardless of if you're older or not, it's like I've never seen [anything] like him," she said.

Shania, who spoke with KOCO about graduating from Langston University at just 15 years old, worked with Elijah and helped inspire him to graduate early.

"I got two associate's degrees at 14 years old, and I kind of did the same process," said Shania. "That's why I just went on to do my bachelor's. I completed everything in two and a half years. So I was just kind of exploring and just having fun, but it turned out quite amazing."

Elijah said the siblings are "competitive," but added, "When someone else needs help, we're all there to help each other out."

Elijah Muhammad standing at graduation with his peers.

As much as Elijah studies, he also makes time for other activities, including swimming and basketball. He is also a motivational speaker and hopes to help others achieve their goals.

"If you want to put your mind to making a 4.0, you can do it," Elijah told KOCO. "If you want to put your mind to winning a state championship, you can do it. You just gotta put in the work that it takes to accomplish that."

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The new research, conducted by psychologist Walter S. Gilliam and colleagues at Yale University's Child Study Center, set out to explore the biases, many of them operating beneath a teacher's awareness, that may drive a troubling pattern in elementary and secondary schools across the nation: that African American students are suspended or expelled at more than twice the rate of children of any other ethnicity.

At the pre-K level, Gilliam found an even starker pattern in 2005. In state-funded pre-K classrooms, 3- and 4-year-olds were being kicked out of school three times as often as older students. And black children - boys mostly - were about twice as likely as Latino and white children to be expelled.

This nursery-school "push-out phenomenon" does more than inconvenience parents and give naughty children a time-out away from classmates: Many researchers suspect it sets up a child early for school failure by eroding his engagement with teachers and classmates and sending the message that the student cannot be redeemed.

At an annual conference of early care and education professionals, the authors of the new study recruited 132 pre-K educators (67% white, 22% black and 68% of them classroom teachers). First, researchers told the subjects they were trying to understand how teachers detect the first signs of troublesome behavior. Then, they used eye-tracking technology to measure the amount of time that subjects focused their attention on each of four children playing and working together on a videotape - a white boy, a black boy, a white girl and a black girl.

As a group, the teachers spent more time watching the videotaped activity of the black male student than any of the others. And black teachers were even more vigilant about their young black charges than were white teachers: Compared to white study participants, black subjects spent more time gazing at black boys and less time gazing at other children.

In the study's second part, educators read vignettes detailing a child's pattern of extremely disruptive behavior. The researchers manipulated teachers' beliefs about the child's gender and race using different names, such as DeShawn or Latoya to suggest a black boy or girl, and Jake and Emily to suggest a white boy or girl. On a five-point scale, the educators then rated the severity of the misbehavior and the likelihood that they would recommend suspension or expulsion.

Here, Gilliam and his colleague found a surprising trend: Black educators were sterner in their judgment of such disruptive behavior on the part of a black child than if it was attributed to a white child. The study's white educators rated the severity of the child's disruptive behavior very low when they believed the student was black, and judged it more severely when they believed the child was white.

This pattern, said Gilliam, suggests two very different assumptions about race and child behavior on the part of white and black educators. While black educators upheld stern - perhaps unrealistically stern - expectations of black preschoolers' behavior, he said, the white educators seemed to have far lower expectations.

In assessing black children's misbehavior, white educators almost seemed to accept "that this was normal behavior, and this was not normal behavior," said Gilliam. These "shifting standards," said Gilliam, are a pernicious cause of what researchers call "implicit bias."

Further racial differences emerged when the subjects were asked to read a statement about the misbehaving child's home and family situation - a grim recitation of absent father, overworked mother, few resources and a chaotic household.

When white teachers read the background statement and believed it described a white child's situation, their judgment of the child's prospects of overcoming disadvantage was kinder and more positive than were their judgments when they thought the child in question was black.

When black teachers read the background statement and believed it described a black child's situation, they judged the child's prospects more kindly than when they thought the child in question was white.

Across the divide of "us" and "them," said Gilliam, lies a racial empathy gap that needs to be overcome.

"We need to help them feel like these children and families are their children and families," said Gilliam. Children, and especially African American children, can be helped by policies and practices aimed in many directions, he added.

Programs that seek to raise teachers' awareness of their implicit biases and counter them are important, said Gilliam. But practices that increase their empathy for all students will help too, as would any measures that reduce overall stress and chaos in preschool classrooms.
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