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Issue 52, Spring 2016

Responding to Trauma in Your Classroom

Trauma can have significant and lasting effects on students. This PD Café will help you learn how to recognize the signs of trauma, better understand the causes of trauma, and take steps to establish social and emotional safety in your classroom.

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February 26, 2018

Discussing "The Mental Health Issue" After Parkland

Male African-American Teacher Instructing Students | Teaching Tolerance

When talking with students about mass shootings, you can't avoid addressing mental health. This TT staffer offers recommendations for ways you can talk about mental health with your students—without adding to the stigma already in place.

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Ability Bullying & Bias Rights & Activism

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Issue 32, Fall 2007

Not True! Gender Doesn't Limit You!

Teaching Tolerance illustration of children dress as pirate and super-hero with cape

What works—and what doesn’t—when it comes to teaching young children about gender bullying?

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Gender & Sexual Identity

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September 30, 2013

Honor Henrietta Lacks

Celebrating Lacks’ life offers opportunities to teach science and ethics.

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Class

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Issue 45, Fall 2013

The Incredible True Story

Teaching Tolerance illustration with load of information students receive

The Common Core elevates nonfiction—and that's a good thing!

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Issue 59, Summer 2018

Digital Literacy Videos

Our short student-friendly videos make learning about digital literacy fun! Share them with students, colleagues and (of course!) on social media.

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Dani Bostick

Dani Bostick is an educator, advocate, and former mental health counselor. Her work on trauma, child sexual abuse and white supremacy has appeared in the Washington Post, The Week, Marie Claire, Parenting, and HuffPost, among others.

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The Color of Law: Winners and Losers in the Job Market

This lesson is the second lesson of the series The Color of Law: The Role of Government in Shaping Racial Inequity. In this lesson, students examine how government policies helped white people access economic benefits while preventing African Americans from accessing these same benefits.

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9-12

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Class Rights & Activism

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Reading & Language Arts

Social Studies

History

Economics

October 10, 2019

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August 20, 2013

Creating a Hmong Student Advisory Board

Unsure how to teach about a particular culture? Ask the experts...the students!

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Immigration

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Let's Talk!

This resource is for educators working to build their own competency facilitating classroom conversations about critical topics like identity, discrimination and inequality.

July 1, 2022

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