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  • MN
  • More than half of students from low‑income households

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Hello, I am a Middle School Social Studies teacher in Minneapolis, Minnesota.I enjoy taking my students out of the classroom and into "other" worlds. How do we travel? However we can, reading a story,analyzing an old picture, canoeing the Mississippi, walking in our community, reading a newspaper. It doesn't matter how, as long as we get out there, where life and history takes place.

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Hello, I am a Middle School Social Studies teacher in Minneapolis, Minnesota.I enjoy taking my students out of the classroom and into "other" worlds. How do we travel? However we can, reading a story,analyzing an old picture, canoeing the Mississippi, walking in our community, reading a newspaper. It doesn't matter how, as long as we get out there, where life and history takes place.

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