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Looking Closely at Ourselves

In this lesson, students explore race and self-identity by creating self-portraits. The lesson aims to help students develop detailed observational skills and use these skills in relation to themselves and others. It also begins constructing a vocabulary that is crucial in helping build community and discuss some of the more challenging aspects of race and racial identity formation.

Grade Level

3-5 6-8 9-12

Topic

Bullying & Bias

Subject

Reading & Language Arts

Arts

September 1, 2011

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Issue 40, Fall 2011

Bully at the Blackboard

Every adult in the building needs to act when the bully is a teacher.

Topic

Bullying & Bias

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Issue 40, Fall 2011

Teaching the Movement

Illustration of a civil rights march across grass

We’ve rereleased the powerful documentary, "A Time for Justice," to help schools educate their students about the civil rights movement.

Topic

Rights & Activism

article

August 31, 2011

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.

Topic

Rights & Activism

author

Brandon Baldwin

Brandon Baldwin is a schools and curriculum coordinator for the Civil Rights Team Project for the office of the Attorney General in Maine.

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August 31, 2011

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

article

August 30, 2011

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

article

August 30, 2011

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

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August 30, 2011

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

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August 30, 2011

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?

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