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Self-awareness in the Classroom
One elementary teacher explains how she helps students develop self-awareness, a key feature of social emotional learning.
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Professional Development
Help students recognize the value of a diverse democracy in their classrooms, schools and communities. These PD resources include best practices and strategies for building community, tailoring instruction, and engaging
August 17, 2020
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Visibility is Power
Elementary educator Skye Tooley emphasizes the power of LGBTQ+ visibility in fostering positive spaces of understanding and empathy where all students feel visible and accepted.
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July 26, 2017
Personal Stories
This online sidebar accompanies the Teaching Tolerance article " Possession Obsession." Anna Sanchez (not her real name), 19, wishes her school had taught that control can signal abuse rather than love. At age 13, she
professional development
Preparing to Teach Digital Literacy
This module offers a series of activities designed to help educators brush up their digital literacy knowledge.
September 29, 2017
publication
Section I: Policy Checkup
Policies reflect a school’s priorities and, like budgets, reveal as much in what they omit as in what’s written on the page. It’s time more LGBTQ kids see themselves on the page. School leaders who make inclusive
October 25, 2018
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Popcorn From the Sky
The story of people whose lives are forever changed by a test bomb gets lost in seas of misunderstanding, political posturing and classified paperwork.
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Just Another Face
One educator's reassessment of his approach to teaching and our schools' support of Latino students.
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'Homo High'
Some people argue “gay-friendly” schools offer needless segregation. Others say they’re the only chance some kids have to make it.
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Looking at Race and Racial Identity in Children’s Books
This lesson, the second in a series, encourages students to think and talk openly about the concept of beauty, particularly as it overlaps with issues of race and racial identity.
September 9, 2011