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Speak Up at School
This guide offers advice to adults about how to respond to biased remarks and the use of stereotypes—and how to teach students to speak up as well.
July 2, 2022
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An Unlikely Friendship
Story Corner - Natalie gains a new friend that she almost missed out on.
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Giving Students Room to Run
Read this installment of the "Why I Teach" series.
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Remembering Howard Zinn
As a young newspaper reporter in Texas, I covered my fair share of speeches. The thrill of hearing an important person give carefully prepared remarks wore off quickly. So I got in the habit of turning away from the speaker and watching the crowd.
student task
Write to the Source
Beautiful Language
Beautiful Language asks students to demonstrate their narrative skills when writing to gain the understanding of others.
July 19, 2014
student task
Write to the Source
Where I Stand
Where I Stand asks students to demonstrate their argumentative and analytical writing skills.
July 19, 2014
professional development
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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A Painter Named Kennedy
Meet Kennedy, of Mombasa, Kenya. His wheelchair doesn’t stop him from making the world a more beautiful place.
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Giving Darwin His Due
A few years ago, I wrote a classroom resource about ecology for elementary and middle school kids. It covered all the territory you’d expect—biomes, habitats, food chains, etc. But the publisher insisted on a conspicuous omission. No mention could be made of one of the major biologists who pioneered ecology. That biologist was Charles Darwin.