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Teaching on Principle and Promise:
The Foundations of Education

Mary-Lou Breitborde, Salem State College
Louise Swiniarski, Salem State College
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Chapter 12: Creating Educational Communities

http://www.alaskanative.net/
The Alaska Native Heritage Center offers a wealth of information about Alaska native cultures, resources, and teaching-learning ideas.

http://www.stedwards.edu/cte/resources/blooms.htm
St. Edward's University (Austin, Texas) offers a multipage website with ideas for using effective questions, especially for enhancing higher-order thinking. Includes samples of questions based on Bloom's taxonomy.

http://www.tolerence.org
Teaching Tolerance, the educational arm of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama, offers an excellent, comprehensive array of activities and materials that promote positive social interaction, especially focused on reducing racism and group prejudice. Its "Mixing It Up" materials provide grade-appropriate tools and resources that promote "mixing it up" among children of different ethnic and cultural groups.

http://www.esrnational.org
The website of Educators for Social Responsibility (ESR), a national organization whose focus is developing social skills, caring classroom climates, and effective educational responses to local, national, and international crises. ESR offers curriculum units for all grade levels as well as teacher workshops and school presentations.

http://www.responsiveclassroom.org
The Northeast Foundation for Children in Greenfield, Massachusetts, offers a classroom-tested approach called "The Responsive Classroom." Schools adopting the RC approach commit to a set of practices that range from physical furniture arrangements and structured classroom meetings to discovery learning and communication with families, all directed at maintaining a climate that fosters responsibility, support, self-control, self-motivation, independence, and a sense of community. RC offers workshops and a regular newsletter.

http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/friends/bullies/index.html
Created by PBSKids, this website offers children definitions of bullying and ways to combat it, including how to handle the role of innocent bystander and how to create bully-free zones. Teachers can find lesson plans to support a feeling of community and safety in their classrooms.

http://www.rethinkingschools.org
Rethinking Schools is an organization of educators dedicated to teaching for social justice and curriculum reform. It publishes a journal and book of articles describing classroom strategies undertaken by teachers working for social change. The website offers online articles, resources, and links to related associations of researchers, activists, and practitioners.

http://www.mpbn.net/educators/index.html
Maine Public Broadcasting System's series of programs on Maine history includes "People of the Dawn," the story of the state's native tribes (Wabanaki) and their contemporary issues. Includes sample lessons for teachers and background information.




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