Community

This photograph depicts two children playing. One child has multiple disabilities and the other child does not.

This picture book explains the Muslim holiday Ramadan by answering the 5 Ws: who, what, where, when and why.

This story speaks of the importance of giving. When hard times fall on his land, Buddha reaches out to the wealthy, asking them to help feed the poor. The rich people grumble and refuse until a young, well-to-do girl steps forward and offers to take her bowl from house-to-house to be filled for those less fortunate than herself. Supriya succeeds and many in the land fill her bowl and their own to give to the poor.

Brother Pedro meets Juan on a dusty road and sees that the man is very troubled. The priest helps Juan secure medicine for his sick wife. After many years, a prosperous and happy Juan returns to Brother Pedro to help him, yet it is Pedro who shows Juan another miracle.

These creation myths, from two different cultures, consider how the world came to be.

“Connected to Everything” is a story written by Jennifer Greene and published in the Fall 2009 issue of Teaching Tolerance. This story is adapted from a traditional tale of the Bitterroot Salish, a Native American tribe in Montana.

Sean McCollum gives an account of writer Julia Alvarez's move to the United States from the Dominican Republic as a young girl. Although Alvarez struggled to fit in in this unfamiliar place, she finally found a comfortable niche in her writing.

Two friends who attend different schools in the same community learn that one of their schools has no instruments for their music program, while the other has multiple different kinds. They use their friendship and musical abilities to confront this inequity and try to bring about change.

Frances dreams of swimming with her classmates, but will everyone be welcome at her new community pool?

These two images depict segregated classrooms before the Brown v. Board of Education decision.

In addition to holding a key place in American folk and gospel music, this song has significance as an anthem of the civil rights movement.

This excerpt explains that families are defined by love, caring and sharing, not the number or gender of its members.

This film documents English language learners as they write and tell personal stories from their past.

As a young Muslim girl, Zahrah wore her hijab to school on what is considered to be the most important day of the week in Islam—Friday. Not everyone at Zahrah's school understands her religious traditions, but a visit from her mom changes this.