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August 24, 2011

Bringing 9/11 in the Classroom—Useful Lessons

As a matter of practice, we encourage teachers to integrate learning opportunities about religious tolerance and cultural understanding throughout the school year. But this is especially important as the 10th anniversary of 9/11 approaches.

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Bullying & Bias

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August 21, 2012

End Out-of-School Suspensions

Today, the Dignity in Schools Campaign (DSC), together with the Opportunity to Learn Campaign, launches Solutions Not Suspensions, a national campaign calling for a moratorium on out-of-school suspensions. Teaching Tolerance supports this initiative.

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Issue 33, Spring 2008

Classroom Simulations: Proceed With Caution

Teaching Tolerance illustration a child with nazi drawing uniform confronting another with jewish symbol

Some educators think these widely-used teaching activities may do as much harm as good — at least in anti-bias learning.

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Issue 54, Fall 2016

No Time Off

At the end of the school day, many kids carry responsibilities far beyond homework.

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Class

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November 2, 2016

The Day After

What’s your classroom plan for the day after the election? This TT teaching and learning specialist offers some guidance.

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Immigration

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The Fog Machine

This excerpt focuses on the lives of African American students during Freedom Summer. After reading Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream” speech in class in 1963, students in main character C.J.'s school are asked to share their dreams at an assembly.

Susan Follett

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6-8

Topic

Civil Rights Movement

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Civics

History

June 9, 2015

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December 12, 2017

Teaching in the Shadow of Trauma

When we teachers get a so-called “problem child” in class, it’s crucial to ask ourselves, “What is causing this behavior to manifest? What is occurring in this child’s life that we can’t see?”

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Class

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August 30, 2011

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."

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Bullying & Bias

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April 20, 2010

Congrats to This Year’s Mix It Up Model Schools!

Over 3,000 schools across the country challenged social boundaries on national Mix It Up at Lunch Day last November. Some schools took it to the next level by actively embracing respect and inclusiveness as core values of their school communities.

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October 1, 2019

A Crooked Seat at the Table: Black and Alone in an Honors Class

Educator Kiara Lee-Heart was often the only Black student in her high school honors classes. Here’s what she wishes her teachers—and all educators—knew about that experience.

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