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I teach seventh and eighth grade in a public middle school on the San Francisco peninsula situated within a community that is culturally, linguistically, ethnically, racially, and socioeconomically diverse. We have six public elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school. My students are native speakers of dozens of languages with families from a variety of countries. Some students have parents in jail and are being raised by extended family members, while others are from households with two college-educated parents and attenuating class privilege. In the same classroom, I have students classified as gifted along with students who carry a diagnosis of emotional disturbance.
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Delaney, K. (2015). Challenging Islamophobia in the Middle School Classroom: Using Critical Media Literacy to Teach Human Rights. In: Katz, S.R., Spero, A.M. (eds) Bringing Human Rights Education to US Classrooms. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137471130_6
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