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Mix It Loud, Mix It Proud
Don’t keep your awesome Mix event confined to the school walls. Spread the word!
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Educating Coworkers on Anti-bias Topics
How do you encourage colleagues to participate in sustained conversations about justice, equity and tolerance?
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“Mainstream, USA”
In this lesson, students will see how statistical data can tell a larger story, understand numbers in various contexts and explore different points of view in relation to data. They will also consider how—as future voters—they will help determine how the political process can serve everybody.
September 29, 2014
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The Danger of Censoring Our History
Students and educators in Jefferson County, Colorado, are pushing back against their school board’s proposal to whitewash U.S. history.
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Teaching 'The New Jim Crow'
Teaching Tolerance teamed up with Michelle Alexander—author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness—to offer educators two FREE webinars exploring mass incarceration in the United States and how to teach about it.
September 23, 2014
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The Activist Award Essay
To close an English unit on social activism, this teacher had her students reflect by recognizing and writing about the activist potential in their classmates.
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Religious Diversity in the Classroom
Teaching Tolerance and the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding teamed up to offer educators a free webinar series: Religious Diversity in the Classroom.
September 10, 2014
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Avoid Disaster: Assign Seating in Middle School
Have you noticed students being excluded in your classroom? A new seating arrangement can make all the difference.