Lindsay Turchan and Andy Blackadar of the Choices Program talk to Jim Green, professor of Modern Latin American History and Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University. He is also the director of the Brazil Initiative at Brown. In this episode, Jim offers his insights and perspective on the role of personal stories in creating historical narratives.

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Episode 05 - Histories that Inspire: the Role of Personal Stories

Mackenzie Abernethy and Mimi Stephens of the Choices Program talk to Celeste Reynolds, a teacher at Mashpee High School in Massachusetts, about her experiences using Choices role plays as a way to get students thinking about multiple perspectives.

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Episode 04 - Role-playing Multiple Perspectives in the Classroom

We have a conversation with Choices Program writer, Mackenzie Abernethy and Moses Brown School teachers, Graham Holland and Jonathan Gold, about how to approach teaching controversial issues in the classroom.

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Episode 03 - Teaching Controversial Issues

The Choices Program writers talk with Professor Jo-Anne Hart of Lesley University and creator of GrowingVoters.org about the difficulty of teaching the 2016 presidential election to high school students.

For teacher tools and lessons on voting and elections, visit http://www.growingvoters.org/

And check out Choices' free Teaching with the News Lesson on the 2016 election at http://www.choices.edu/resources/twtn/twtn-election-2016.php

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Episode 02 - Teaching the 2016 Presidential Election

The Choices Program writing team talk about the challenges of writing a curriculum for high school students about immigration. 

Learn more about the curriculum, Immigration and the U.S. Policy Debate at http://choices.edu/.

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