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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The school brought in the staff of Gender Spectrum to provide training for teachers and administrators as well as an age-appropriate curriculum for students. During this step, everyone involved was empowered to look at their own personal confusion, bias and feelings around gender. Parents are brought into the mix next, and add to the spirited discussion about creating a safe place for all of our children to be themselves. A week of classroom activities...
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Adding Talk to the Equation helps teachers learn how to skillfully lead math conversations so all students stay in the game, stay motivated about learning, and ultimately deepen their understanding. This collection features five case studies filmed in grades 1-6 and shows teachers at various stages in their practice of generating and managing rich mathematics conversations. Lucy emphasizes the progression that occurs as teachers get more comfortable...
3) Newtown
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Three years after the horrific mass shooting in Newtown, CT that took the lives of twenty elementary school children and six educators on December 14, 2012, the small New England town is a complex psychological web in the wake of yet another act of mass killing at the hands of a disturbed young gunman.
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
In 1994, California voters approved Proposition 187, a ballot initiative denying public education and health care to all undocumented immigrants. Laura Angelica Simon, a Mexican immigrant and fourth grade teacher at Hoover Street Elementary School in Los Angeles was, in her own words, "devastated," and felt motivated to a make film about the impact on her school.
5) Paper clips
Language
English
Formats
Description
Struggling to grasp the concept of 6 million Holocaust victims, the students at Whitwell Middle School in rural Tennessee decide to collect 6 million paper clips to better understand the extent of this crime against humanity. Because Norwegians invented the paper clip and used it as a symbol of solidarity against the Nazis, students started collecting them to help visualize such vast numbers of victims. As word spread online and in the media, paper...
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"We met in first grade in Ms. Locklear's class. During the summer of 2006, we decided to search for our beloved teacher. We chose not to use the internet or the telephone, but instead to rely on face-to-face contact with people. Looking for Ms. Locklear is a documentary chronicling our search, which led us far from home and into the company of a host of characters. The movie prominently features the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, as our search led...
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Français
Description
At the center of this intimate and touching story is Georges Lopez - a remarkably devoted teacher responsible for nurturing a dozen children ages 3-11 in all their school subjects and life's lessons. Demonstrates how a teacher, if well trained, dedicated and sensitive to a child's educational and emotional needs, can hugely influence a generation of children at their most critical time of development.
9) The sower
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
Bartolome, an elementary school teacher in the mountains of Chiapas, becomes a beacon of hope in his community through his humanistic approach to education based on curiosity and the love of nature.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
On December 1, 1958, an arsonist started a fire at the foot of the stairwell in Our Lady of the Angels Roman Catholic elementary school on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois. 92 children and 3 nuns on the third floor died. Includes interviews with parents, children who survived, and men who fought or reported on the fire. Looks at how it happened, how it might have been prevented, and what was done to make sure it would never happen again.
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