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October 28, 2015

“Drop That Science!”

An eventful taxi ride home after a challenging day gave this teacher perspective on her life’s work.

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October 22, 2015

It’s Almost Here!

Mix It Up at Lunch Day is on Tuesday, October 27! Here are some things for organizers to think about between now and then.

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October 22, 2015

Building Empathy With ‘Miss Peregrine’s’

This after-school educator developed a creative set of discussion questions and prompts to help students talk about empathy. Her tools? A young adult novel, the Teaching Tolerance Anti-bias Framework and Perspectives for a Diverse America.

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Bullying & Bias

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October 21, 2015

Involving Students in School Improvement

How can educators enfranchise student voices for school improvement? A free toolkit—Speak Out, Listen Up!—offers some try-tomorrow strategies.

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Bullying & Bias

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October 20, 2015

Teaching Students About Historical Significance

How can educators push their students to think past a static understanding of history in developmentally appropriate ways? This teacher offers some insights from his classroom.

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Bullying & Bias

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October 19, 2015

The Next Comics Revolution

A real-life superhero shares his thoughts on the need for diversity in comics.

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Bullying & Bias

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October 19, 2015

Are Your Students Prisoners?

How educators talk about school climate can play an important role in how students feel about school.

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Bullying & Bias

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October 16, 2015

Just Say No to Identity-based Spirit Days

As sure as October brings pumpkins and pep rallies, TT Director Maureen Costello knows she’ll hear dis-spiriting news about a school’s offensive choice of spirit week theme. Yesterday was no exception.

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Race & Ethnicity

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Vanessa D'Egidio

Vanessa D'Egidio is a seventh-grade humanities teacher in New York City. This is her eighth year of teaching but her first year as a middle school educator, having moved into a new role after teaching second grade for the past five years. Vanessa brings to the classroom a passion for education that empowers, validates, connects and inspires critical thinking and positive social action. She is a former member of the Teaching Tolerance advisory board and contributor to TT's Perspectives for a Diverse America curriculum. Vanessa enjoys designing and leading workshops around issues related to

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October 14, 2015

School Is No Place for Class(ism)

The language that educators use to address students can maintain and reinforce class structures and classist attitudes. The antidote? Anti-classist language.

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Class Bullying & Bias

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