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What We’re Reading This Week: October 4, 2019
A weekly sampling of articles, blogs and reports relevant to TT educators.
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Handle With Care: Supporting Young People During Crisis Events
How to support children and youth during crisis events in our communities, nation and world.
November 7, 2024
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Access for All
With the help of a Teaching Tolerance Educator Grant, this teacher created a space where DeafBlind students could be themselves and teach the larger school community about DeafBlindness.
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Media Worth Binging On: Two Pro-social Examples
Many students are constantly tied to their phones. As educators, we can tap into that interest—and students’ curiosity and desire for entertainment—to show them gateways to a wider worldview.
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The Mystery of the Adolescent Brain
March 10-14 is Brain Awareness Week. Take a moment to learn more about how brain awareness can actually change your students’ attitudes about their own brains—and even help them be more successful in school.
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Privilege Paralysis on a College Campus
Teaching the movement to high schoolers gave this college student an opportunity to address her personal "privilege paralysis" and embrace her potential as an agent of change.
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School Is No Place for Class(ism)
The language that educators use to address students can maintain and reinforce class structures and classist attitudes. The antidote? Anti-classist language.
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Community Inquiry
Four Perspectives
A strategy to introduce the anti-bias framework into group discussion and textual analysis. Students respond to and pose questions from the four anti-bias domains: identity, diversity, justice and action.
July 13, 2014
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Do Something
Voting in Your Town
Students use online resources to analyze current voter registration and turnout rates in their state and local community. They also explore potential roadblocks to the voting process (e.g., felon disenfranchisement and voter fraud).
October 3, 2016
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A Message From Our Director
Teaching Tolerance director Maureen Costello reminds us that storytelling can conquer fears.