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Help your students discover what they have in common with young people around the world with two new elementary lessons on immigration and immigrant experiences.

These pre-Mix lessons, which are available for all grade levels and cover a wide variety of subjects, can deepen the impact of your event.

Your school is doing something great by participating in Mix It Up at Lunch Day! Let your community know about it. We’re happy to help.

Student pushback against mixing up their lunchtime seating can be a perfect teaching opportunity.

It’s not too late to have civil, informed classroom conversations about the election.

National Mix It Up at Lunch Day may be over, but promoting friendship at school is a priority all year.

Teaching Tolerance has named 77 schools—25 more than last year—from across the country as Mix It Up Model Schools for their exemplary efforts to foster respect and understanding among their students and throughout their campuses during the 2011-12 school year.

As part of Mix it Up at Lunch Day, Arrowwood Elementary School in Highlands Ranch, Colorado provided students with a series of ice-breakers to spice up the conversation and help create new friendships. The Douglas County School District’s video of the event shows what Mix It Up is all about!

In preparation for Mix It Up at Lunch Day, Dent Middle School students designed t-shirts, performed skits on the morning news show and decorated the lunchroom. Their event was a huge success!

Historian Carter G. Woodson established the first Negro History Week in 1926—a celebration that later became Black History Month. The Association for the Study of African American Life and History, a group founded by Woodson, selects a new theme for Black History Month each year. This year’s theme is "Black Women in American Culture and History."