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Barbie Garayúa Tudryn

Barbie is a school counselor at a dual-language elementary school in North Carolina, and a member of the Teaching Tolerance Advisory Board. Her passion for issues of race, immigration, gender and sexual justice is a strong influence in her school counseling program. In 2013, Garayúa-Tudryn founded Mariposas, a group for Latina girls that promotes empowerment by exploring issues of intersectionality, social emotional health and civic engagement.

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March 7, 2011

Casting Caution Aside Creates a Safe Zone

We often talk about the teachers who change our lives. We hold them dear in our hearts, conjuring their images and words of wisdom in our dark hours. They continue to guide us throughout our lives, whether they know it or not. What few talk about is the students who change teachers' lives. Yup. It happens that way, too.

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Gender & Sexual Identity Bullying & Bias

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November 18, 2011

Finding the Civil Rights Movement in Oregon

As a middle school student, I was perplexed by a quote by George Santayana that my history teacher posted on the wall. It read, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” As a budding history teacher, it continued to puzzle me.

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 56, Summer 2017

A District Profile | Black Lives Matter at School

Kids marching in the school hallway with BLM signs

Meet a school district that brought Black Lives Matter into the classroom—and learn how you could do it too.

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Issue 42, Fall 2012

You Spoke, We Listened

Readers talk coming out, teen dating violence and our Children’s March film.

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Issue 43, Spring 2013

Found in Translation

Teaching Tolerance illustration of child with a US flag in the background

Best Practices // Engaging Limited English Proficient Students and Families

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Immigration

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March 5, 2013

Reflections of a ‘Teacher of the Year’

The greatest achievement for this Teacher of the Year is the daily practice of empathy.

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Class

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October 7, 2015

Texas, Textbooks and Truth

A McGraw-Hill textbook is under fire for its characterization of enslaved people as “workers”—the latest example of our national unwillingness to face white supremacist history.

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Issue 55, Spring 2017

A Message From Our Director

Teaching Tolerance director Maureen Costello says that none of us can afford to look away from fear or harassment happening in our schools.

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Nefertari Yancie

Nefertari Yancie, Ph.D., teaches eighth grade social studies in Birmingham, Alabama. She received her doctorate from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in education studies in diverse populations. Her research focuses on developing students’ historical empathy skills as a way of understanding the past’s connection and relevance to the present.

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