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Portfolio Activities for “Healing Touch: Susie King Taylor—Civil War Teacher and Nurse”
Grades: 4-8 Subjects: Social Studies, Reading and Language Arts, ELL/ESL Categories: Race and ethnicity; History Story Corner is a student-directed feature in Teaching Tolerance magazine. In the current issue, we tell
Student Advocates Work Despite a Thankless Task
Junior high school students and members of their school's student civil rights team felt that no one was taking them seriously in their efforts to improve the school's climate. Recently they'd visited classrooms and offered presentations on Maine's civil rights laws and the harmful impact of bias-based derogatory language. They did not get a warm reception from their peers.
Detention Leads to a Lunchtime Community
The year I taught art in the dysfunctional chaos of an overcrowded urban middle school with weak administrators, practically everyone in the school—both students and teachers—needed a "safe place."
Portfolio Activity for “Game Changers”
Grades: 5-8 Subjects: Science and Health Categories: Diversity and inclusion; Disability The “new PE” emphasizes personalized fitness programs and cooperative rather than competitive games. How could this work in your
Portfolio Activity for “Getting the Civil War Right”
Grades: 9-12 Subjects: Social Studies, Reading and Language Arts Categories: History As this Teaching Tolerance story tells us, it’s important to study history—in particular first-hand documents—so that we can continue
Toolkit for “Straight Talk About the N-word”
As Neal A. Lester reminds us in “ Straight Talk About the N-word,” the term is one of the most loaded words in the English language. Is there ever a place for the n-word?
Portfolio Activity for “Speak Truth To Power”
Grades: 9-12 Subjects: Reading and Language Arts, Social Studies, ELL/ESL Categories: Wealth and poverty; Gender, Race and ethnicity Speak Truth To Power is a project of the RFK Center for Justice and Human Rights. For
Portfolio Activity for “The Unaffiliated Unite”
Grades: 9-12 Subjects: Reading and Language Arts, Social Studies, ELL/ESL, Science and Health Categories: Religion; Diversity and Inclusion; Bullying and Exclusion; Stereotypes and Bias This Teaching Tolerance story
Portfolio Activity for “We ♥ Art!”
Grades: 5-12 Subjects: Arts, Reading and Language Arts, Math and Technology Categories: Diversity and Inclusion; Wealth and Poverty Broad cuts to public school arts programs can encourage students to think of these