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In this special Q & A, educators Louise Derman-Sparks and Patricia G. Ramsey, authors of the book, What If All the Kids are White?, provide early grades educators with practical ideas on preparing white students for a multicultural world.

How to develop a world religions curriculum with inclusion and sensitivity.

This piece investigates the concept of color blindness and helps teachers recognize the importance of race and ethnicity in students' lives.

Willis Hawley's review of research on the effects of racial and ethnic school diversity on critical thinking skills and academic achievement.

Willis Hawley's review of research on the effects of racial and ethnic diversity in schools on racial understanding and student achievement.

This professional development module examines the role of differentiated instruction in the culturally responsive classroom.

This professional development module helps participants examine curriculum and presentation to ensure student engagement.

Conversation Guidelines for Schools and Academic Settings, developed by the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding, provides useful steps for having respectful conversations about 9/11 and religion.

Does your teaching include these five standards? Take a deep dive with this self-check, originally produced by the Center for Research on Education, Diversity and Excellence at the University of California.

Subtle changes in test environments can improve standardized test scores among students of color and girls.

Tips for using grassroots organizing to engage your school’s parents.

This piece accompanies Social Justice Standards: Unpacking Identity

The study of religion must serve academic purposes. Many schools approach the subject in self-contained religion courses, while others integrate the study of religion throughout coursework. Below are models and resources.

Certain encounters help young students develop values and virtues that open spaces in their minds and hearts so they can see the world and its people in broader terms.

This module offers a series of activities designed to help educators brush up their digital literacy knowledge.

Individual reflection activity exploring identity.

Teaching Tolerance and the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding teamed up to offer educators a free webinar series: Religious Diversity in the Classroom.

If you want to include religious holidays as part of classroom inquiry, it is important to plan for them. Keep the following guidelines in mind.

Social Justice Standards: The Teaching Tolerance Anti-bias Framework is a set of 20 anchor standards and 80 grade-level outcomes organized into four domains—Identity, Diversity, Justice and Action—that reflect the desired impact of successful anti-bias and multicultural education on student personal and social development. The standards provide a common language and organizational structure: Teachers can use them to guide curriculum development, and administrators can use them to make schools more just, equitable and safe.

This professional development addresses the Justice domain.

This professional development addresses the Action domain.

This professional development addresses diversity.

This professional development addresses identity.

This piece is to accompany the Portfolio Activity for "From Awareness to Action"Tad Thomas of the Positive Youth Foundation offers simple tips for starting an activist club at school.

This piece accompanies the ELL Best Practices CollectionHigh school teacher Kristan Taylor uses oral history projects and journaling to help ESL and non-ESL students "realize that they often share the same problems, frustrations and hopes for the future."

The Civil Rights Act (CRA) of 1964, the conditions that led to it and its legacy are the subjects of a powerful four-part webinar series co-facilitated by Teaching Tolerance and the Library of Congress.