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Resources for looking at art
A guide to some of the best websites, activities, and print resources for building visual literacy through the study of art.
Format: article
By Melissa Thibault.
The secret cultural institution in your school: The school library
A variety of best practices and imaginative ideas that the school librarian can use to create an environment where students fuse together required learning with learning that is driven by individual interest.
By Kim Campbell.
African American history
A guide to lesson plans, articles, and websites to help bring African American history alive in your classroom.
Format: bibliography/help
Critical literacy
Critical literacy is the ability to read texts in an active, reflective manner in order to better understand power, inequality, and injustice in human relationships. This article outlines the history and theory of critical literacy and details its application in the classroom.
Format: article
By Heather Coffey.
Don't put it down, put it up!
In a fifth grade classroom based around projects, everything has its place. This classroom profile shows you the design and purpose of Debra Harwell-Braun's fifth-grade classroom.
By Kathleen Casson.

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The norms, values, and beliefs transmitted to students through educational practices and content.

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The use of this term assumes that schools are responsible for more than the overt transmission of knowledge, for they also participate in socializing students into approved norms and values. However, transmission of the hidden curriculum is not obvious to participants, nor does it emerge from stated educational objectives. Critical theorists of education seek to make the hidden curriculum apparent in order to eliminate bias and ensure equity.