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Community Care Through Climate Justice
Students apply close reading and analysis skills to examine who is most impacted by climate change, why, and what climate initiatives can be taken to enhance community care and safety. They then...
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Students explore news stories that center statistics, analyze best practices for using surveys to evaluate underreported issues, and ultimately design surveys focused on their interests and concerns.
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Students apply their prior knowledge of constitutional amendments, the judicial branch, racism, and ideas of justice to explore the historic roots, and present-day realities, of incarceration in the...
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Students engage with a series of underreported feature stories in global and local contexts and then investigate an underreported story about their own community to be published as a feature on a...
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After examining how women across the globe are overcoming gender inequality amplified by the pandemic through advocacy and financial empowerment, students promote opportunities to invest in micro...
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Students evaluate educational budget priorities in the wake of COVID-19 by exploring underreported pandemic stories advocating for initiatives that prioritize mental health support for students.
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Students explore the effects of climate change, the impact of global youth climate advocacy, and then craft a persuasive letter or art piece encouraging local and national officials to take action on...
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Students learn about disenfranchisement and the fight for voting rights from Reconstruction to the present. They then compose an underreported story about a person fighting for democracy locally.
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Making History
Students evaluate reporting on several underreported issues, and analyze the role of underreported stories in documenting history in order to create a presentation on a topic they think future...
