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Trevor Scott Barton

 

Trevor Scott Barton is an elementary school teacher in Greenville, SC. He is a blogger for the Teaching Tolerance project of the Southern Poverty Law Center. 

Blog Posts by Trevor Scott Barton

Building A World Without Hate
Posted by Trevor Scott Barton 4 weeks 5 days ago
The question for me as a teacher is not so much "What could have been?" as it is "What can be?"I think of my fourth grader holding signs that say, "I am MLK," "I am Anne Frank," "I am Harvey Milk," "...
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Colors of Cuba
Posted by Trevor Scott Barton 6 weeks 3 days ago
I just returned from a weeklong visit to Cuba. A team of seven people from First Baptist Church Greenville went to be with and learn from our partner church in Guanahay, Cuba — La Iglesia Bautista...
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The Teaching of Empathy
Posted by Trevor Scott Barton 10 weeks 4 days ago
The announcement was broadcast at the end of the day over the school’s public address system."Our Teacher of the Year for 2013-2014 is ... Mr. Barton. Congratulations!"I walked out into the third-...
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Hearing Stories of the Past
Posted by Trevor Scott Barton 11 weeks 1 day ago
I walked down the newly plowed row with my grandpa, feeling the warm, red clay on the soles of my bare feet and listening to his stories and words of advice. I held a tomato plant in my hands, the...
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Mango — A Haiku
Posted by Trevor Scott Barton 12 weeks 3 days ago
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