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2011 Teaching Tolerance Award Winners
Teaching Tolerance recognized five outstanding educators with the first-ever Teaching Tolerance Award for Excellence in Culturally Responsive Teaching on Dec. 9th in Washington, D.C.
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A Teacher Reflects on the Literary Canon
This high school language arts teacher marvels at how his students were engaged in controversial and difficult topics.
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In the City of Brotherly Love
“The Irish and the English share a long legacy of conflict.” And this conflict extended across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World as a wave of Catholic immigrants arrived in the United States in the 1820s.
May 22, 2017
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Re-igniting the Passion to Teach
A web exclusive for "Dancing with Languages," from the September 2008 issue of Teaching Tolerance magazine.
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Tackling Implicit Bias
From Selma to Ferguson and beyond, implicit bias has been at play. But educators can take steps to understand this bias and move toward solutions.
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Controlling the Student Body
Are your school’s dress and behavior policies doing more harm than good?
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Just Peace: A Message of Hope
In this book excerpt Mattie Stepanek describes what it is like living with a rare neuromuscular disease. Defying many developmental odds, Mattie recounts highs and lows as he travels toward his tenth birthday, living on what he terms “the edge.”
July 5, 2014
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Thinking Differently About Our Work
Angela Ward reflects on her work leading conversations about difference with educators in Austin, Texas.
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After the Flag Comes Down
There’s growing momentum to take down Confederate flags, but our work to denounce systemic racism cannot stop at symbolic markers.
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Teaching as Activism, Teaching as Care
I have begun to feel helpless during this time. But I never felt helpless as a teacher.