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May 5, 2016

The Value of GSA Day

Creating safe spaces for LGBT students and their allies is crucial, and hosting a GSA Day is one step toward that safety. Find out how Oakland Unified School District got it done.

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Gender & Sexual Identity Bullying & Bias

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February 21, 2019

Hate at School: January 2019

We’re halfway through the school year, and there is no indication that hate incidents at school are slowing down.

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Ability Gender & Sexual Identity Bullying & Bias

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Issue 5, Fall 2023

Building Resilience Against Manipulative Disinformation

Illustration of scissors about to cut the strings attached to a person viewing their phone.

Supporting young people’s mental health and well-being is essential in addressing vulnerabilities to harmful disinformation.

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Issue 49, Spring 2015

Toolkit for Hate in the Hallways

Visual imagery is a powerful way to work for as well as against justice. In this toolkit, teachers will learn ways to help students express their love and appreciation of others by engaging visual arts and design.

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Issue 49, Spring 2015

A Message From Our Director

Teaching Tolerance director Maureen Costello reminds us that storytelling can conquer fears.

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March 13, 2013

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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Tough Guise: By playing a role, I discovered myself

In this essay, Melvin Pichardo, a young aspiring actor, becomes so immersed in becoming a character for a role that he begins to question who he is as a person and what he feels and thinks.

Melvin Pichardo

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9-12

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Gender & Sexual Identity

December 22, 2015

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July 26, 2017

LGBT Students

This online sidebar accompanies the Teaching Tolerance article " Possession Obsession." LGBT teenagers have the same vulnerabilities to abusive dating as straight kids—and then some. “There’s an added layer for these

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Gender & Sexual Identity

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Becki Cohn-Vargas

Becki Cohn-Vargas is the director of Not In Our School (NIOS) and a national speaker on the subject of school-based bullying. Currently she develops standards-based bullying prevention curriculum and has worked with over 150 NIOS efforts at schools and colleges across the United States. Earlier in her career, she spent over 35 years in public education in California. Her new book,“ Identity Safe Classrooms: Places to Belong and Learn,” co-authored with Dorothy Steele, was published by Corwin Press .

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Issue 52, Spring 2016

Wanted: Playground Buddy

A Buddy Bench can make recess more inclusive—and more fun!

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