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“Playing Black” for Laughs
Costumes and makeup aren’t the only markers for cultural appropriation. Dr. Neal Lester explains the prevalence of—and problems with—“figurative blackface.”
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Toolkit for Z and Vielpunkt
The story “Z and Vielpunkt” teaches important lessons about how we show care for others. This toolkit provides writing, reflection and research activities to help students reflect on those lessons.
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Toolkit for Beyond the Knapsack
Serial Testimony is a facilitation method that empowers students by valuing their knowledge and insight. It offers young people the opportunity to testify to the realities of their own lives, making their personal reflections part of the curriculum.
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Toolkit for Tongue-Tied
This toolkit shows how Teaching Tolerance’s Critical Practices for Anti-bias Education can help foster safe and effective instruction about the sensitive and serious topic of slavery.
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Toolkit for Picture Imperfect
Racial inequity, gender stereotypes and heternormity continue to dominate children’s books. This toolkit will help you assess your classroom library and make future selections that reflect a range of cultures, genders, immigration and socio-economic statuses, sexual orientations and family structures.
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Toolkit for Drowning in Debt
This toolkit provides a College/University Affordability Audit to help counselors, teachers, families and students evaluate the financial and academic supports and graduation outcomes offered by higher education institutions.
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Toolkit for The Neuroscience of Culturally Responsive Pedagogy
Over the last 15 years, social science research has revealed several best practices for teaching social emotional skills. This toolkit provides a resource roundup of current research.
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Toolkit for In Good Faith
This toolkit provides a lesson plan that expands students’ knowledge and understanding of the religious diversity (or lack thereof) in their city, county or state. The lesson ends with an activity around the role of interfaith coalitions in increasing religious understanding.
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Toolkit for In Bounds
This toolkit suggests one way to study the inclusiveness of your school’s climate for LGBT students and athletes. The toolkit includes suggestions for assembling a committee, possible school survey questions and follow-up steps based on the results.