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Teachers, Any Lesson About Thanksgiving Should Include Native American Perspectives

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By Shawnta Barnes
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It is that time of year again. It is time for some teachers somewhere to completely botch incorporating Thanksgiving and Native Americans into the curriculum. However, this does not need to occur. Teachers can take the time to research and plan to avoid being the next teacher to go viral for missteps in the classroom. Teaching starts with the state standards.
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Teachers, Any Lesson About Thanksgiving Should Include Native American Perspectives

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By Shawnta Barnes
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Teachers, Any Lesson About Thanksgiving Should Include Native American Perspectives 2:50 It is that time of year again. It is time for some teachers somewhere to completely botch incorporating Thanksgiving and Native Americans into the curriculum. However, this does not need to occur. Teachers can take the time to research and plan to avoid being the next teacher to go viral for missteps in the classroom. Teaching starts with the state standards.
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This Juneteenth I’m Challenging Educators to Emancipate Themselves From a Colonized Curriculum

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By Shawnta Barnes
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Ed Note: This post was originally published in 2020. When Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, this marked the end of slavery in the United States … that is what a lot of people learned in school. Honestly, it is more nuanced than that. The Emancipation Proclamation was issued to free enslaved Africans in the Confederate states. Even if students learned that component, many of them, including me, did not learn about the rest of the story.
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