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Decolonizing the Classroom: Teaching With Indigenous Comics
Bring Native cultures, stories and perspectives out of the margins of your curriculum with comics by and about Native peoples.
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Talking With Students About Transgender Athletes
As lawmakers across the country continue to restrict the rights of trans people—particularly trans students—educators can take this moment to start a conversation about transgender identity, justice and ways to take action.
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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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Centering Student Experiences
When asking students to explore issues of personal and social identity, teachers must help establish braver spaces where students are seen, valued, cared for, respected, and have opportunities to learn from one another’s experiences and perspectives.
May 26, 2023
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Constructively Responding to Hate
When neo-Nazis planned a march on their campus, these educators found a way to push back—even as they let their students lead the way.
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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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Classroom Simulations: Proceed With Caution
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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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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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.
June 9, 2015