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What We're Reading
Teaching Tolerance staff review the latest in culturally aware literature and resources, offering the best picks for professional development and teachers of all grades.
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Flipping the Script on Bias and Bullies
Social justice theater can teach your students to take the story into their own hands.
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Love Your Magic Conference
Read about how one teacher used a Learning for Justice grant to help fund a daylong conference empowering girls of color in Boston.
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U.S. Constitution: Articles I, II, IV, V
These sections illustrate the ways in which the U.S. Constitution provided indirect protection of slavery.
January 5, 2018
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Letter to Reverend Samson Occum (1774)
Wheatley’s letter explains her reasoning for emancipation using the rhetoric of the American Revolution and Biblical references.
January 5, 2018
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Passages in the Life of a Slave Woman
In this short story, from the 1853 abolitionist collection Autographs for Freedom, Parker shares a heartbreaking tale that shows some of the damage enslavement inflicts on families.
December 15, 2017
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Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline
School policies that include harsh punishments, automatic out-of-class time and police involvement for discipline contribute to pushing young people out of classrooms and into the criminal legal system. These punitive practices disproportionately affect Black and other children of color, students with disabilities, young people experiencing poverty and children from communities that have been historically marginalized. Urgent change is needed to end school pushout and dismantle this school-to-prison pipeline.
- What Is the School-to-Prison Pipeline, and How Do We Dismantle It?
- Only Young Once: Dismantling Georgia’s Punitive Youth Incarceration System
- The Heart of Facilitation in Restorative Justice
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Walkout in Crystal City
A former teacher from Crystal City, Texas, remembers the student walkout that helped launch the Latino civil rights movement 40 years ago.
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What Is the School-to-Prison Pipeline, and How Do We Dismantle It?
Urgent change is needed to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline. Together, families, educators and community members can advocate for and implement practices that prioritize mental health and well-being and do not push children out of schools.
November 27, 2023