Five ways to cultivate a solutionary culture in your school through design thinking, a collaboration with Open Way Learning and guest bloggers Elizabeth O. Crawford and Ben Pendarvis.
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What We’re Reading
We’re sharing the books that are inspiring us at IHE this fall. In our staff picks, you’ll find a mix of education, social justice, environmental, and animal reads.
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Windows and Mirrors and Sliding Glass Doors: Ensuring Students See Themselves and Others in Literature
by Cathy Potter In 1990, Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop published an essay about the importance of providing young readers with diverse books that reflect the “multicultural nature of the world” in which we live. In the essay, Dr. Bishop coined the phrase “Windows, Mirrors and Sliding Glass Doors” to explain how children see themselves in…
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Treehuggers: Children’s Picture Books Honoring Trees
by Marsha Rakestraw Trees are mythical, magical and mysterious. We depend upon them for everything from the air we breathe to the inspiration for bad poetry to a source for the very materials that make our lives possible. Kids love trees. They love to climb them, trounce around their leaves, notice who lives in them,…
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Thinking Critically in the Post-Truth Era: An Interview With Daniel J. Levitin
by Zoe Weil Daniel J. Levitin is Founding Dean of Arts & Humanities at the Minerva Schools at Keck Graduate Institute, and a Distinguished Faculty Fellow at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. He is an award-winning neuroscientist and educator, and his latest book is Weaponized Lies: How to Think Critically in the Post…
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Teaching and Learning About Bees
We rely on bees for most of our food, and bees are dying by the millions (if not billions). Use these reports, films, links and other resources to help you learn and teach more about issues related to the bee crisis.
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Self-Care for Changemakers
Find resources to help humane educators and changemakers maintain health and balance and practice self-care and -compassion. Save Save
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Refugee and Immigration Issues
Find books, articles, videos, lesson plans & more related to refugee and immigration issues to help you teach and/or learn more about this global ethical issue.
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Overfishing and Industrial Fishing
Find books, articles, videos, lesson plans and more about overfishing, industrial fishing, and related issues to help you teach and/or learn more about these global ethical issues.
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Forests and Deforestation
Resources (books, lesson plans, videos, articles and more) to help you teach and/or learn about the issues related to our forests, deforestation, and solutions for reforesting and protecting our lands.
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