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November 14, 2018

Speak Up Against Hateful Rhetoric

Use TT’s Speak Up at School as a guide to address prejudice and bias in public discourse.

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Religion Ability Immigration Gender & Sexual Identity

August 27, 2018

On Truth and Neutrality

Encouraging fellow educators to commit to tackling the tough topics.

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Religion Ability Class Immigration Gender & Sexual Identity

August 8, 2018

Learning for Justice 101: A Guide to Our Resources

Person writing notes while looking at computer

Perhaps you get our magazine and you’ve used our films. But Learning for Justice offers so much more! As a new school year starts, we review some of our favorite—and most popular—resources.

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Slavery Religion Ability Class Immigration Gender & Sexual Identity Bullying & Bias Rights & Activism

May 30, 2018

Learning When to Listen

One teacher explains the value of knowing when to identify with your students when they tell you about their lives—and when to be quiet and listen.

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Religion Ability Class Immigration Gender & Sexual Identity

March 6, 2018

Broken and Healing: Normalizing Mental Health Issues in Our Classrooms

Young people stand in a circle holding hands

If we want our students to feel safe and accepting of their own mental health issues, can we model that by being open ourselves?

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Ability Bullying & Bias

March 1, 2018

We Rest Our Case: American Slavery Is Widely Mistaught

Abolitionists William Still, Sojourner Truth, William Loyd Garrison, unidentified male and female slaves, and Black Union soldiers in front of American flag

After hearing from skeptics about our Teaching Hard History report findings, TT Director Maureen Costello came across striking new evidence that the project is necessary.

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Slavery

February 28, 2018

Helping Others Gives New Meaning to Learning

When this special education teacher found a way for her students to leave their self-contained classroom to help their peers, they gained new perspectives and became more compassionate with others and themselves.

Topic

Ability

February 26, 2018

Discussing "The Mental Health Issue" After Parkland

Male African-American Teacher Instructing Students | Teaching Tolerance

When talking with students about mass shootings, you can't avoid addressing mental health. This TT staffer offers recommendations for ways you can talk about mental health with your students—without adding to the stigma already in place.

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Ability Bullying & Bias Rights & Activism

February 14, 2018

“All Our Terrible and Beautiful History”: Teach American History as a Human Story

Professor David W. Blight, director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, explains why prevailing American historical narratives necessitate Teaching Tolerance's Teaching Hard History report and recommendations.

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Slavery Rights & Activism

December 1, 2017

"Hunger Would Be Creation": Neurodiverse Literature in the Classroom

What can teaching neurodiverse texts do for people with and without cognitive disabilities? We’ve just scratched the surface of possibility.

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Ability Rights & Activism

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