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Pandemic Pedagogy: A Call to Educators to Bring Their Classrooms to Reality

One educator explains the value of addressing the pandemic head-on in class.

September 1, 2020

Educators’ and Students’ Rights During COVID-19

A children’s rights attorney and a policy analyst from the Southern Poverty Law Center explain educators’ rights to workplace safety, students’ rights to education access and what it might take to advocate for both.

August 31, 2020

Topic

Race & Ethnicity Ability Class Rights & Activism

New Resources for Confronting White Nationalism

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Educators can play a critical role in recognizing and addressing white nationalism. Two authors of Western States Center’s toolkit, ‘Confronting White Nationalism in Schools,’ explain how.

August 28, 2020

Topic

Race & Ethnicity Bullying & Bias Rights & Activism

Teach This: Voter Registration in a Time of Pandemic and Protests

Illustration of a teacher figure pointing to a slide featured on a pulled down screen that is titled "Voting History." Several shadowed figures sit in the foreground, looking at the displayed information.

Use the video, articles, census data and original research in this discussion guide to talk with students about youth voter registration and turnout in this unprecedented election season.

August 25, 2020

Topic

Rights & Activism

Supporting Student Voter Registration Remotely

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The continuation of distance learning—and ongoing social distancing regulations in most states and localities—has added obstacles to holding student voter registration drives. But it’s not impossible.

August 25, 2020

Topic

Rights & Activism

Teach This: Texas Students Fight for Their Right to Vote

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Use this discussion guide to start a conversation with students about what voter suppression looks like today. Outlining the historical and present-day barriers to voters faced by students at one Texas HBCU, the featured video in this guide helps students recognize voter suppression and see how other young people are fighting it.

August 25, 2020

Topic

Rights & Activism

All Students Need Anti-racism Education

Schools across the nation are committing to the all-important work of anti-racism. Schools with predominately white or privileged students should be no exception.

July 30, 2020

Topic

Race & Ethnicity Rights & Activism

‘Bibi,’ Complete Sentences and the Stories Students Need

Teaching Tolerance is proud to introduce our newest film, ‘Bibi.’

July 27, 2020

Topic

Race & Ethnicity Immigration Gender & Sexual Identity

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