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Make the Most of Teachable Moments

Find moments that can be used for staff and classroom discussion. Focus the conversation on the kind of atmosphere you want at your school and how you can achieve that.

Topic

Bullying & Bias

August 27, 2012

student task

Do Something

Poetry and Storytelling Café

Students write and share original poems and stories about community issues or themes present in the central text.

Grade Level

3-5

July 13, 2014

student task

Do Something

Puppet Show

Students design, create and perform a puppet show to teach others about a diversity, anti-bias or social justice theme from the central text.

Grade Level

3-5

July 13, 2014

student task

Do Something

Community Arts Showcase

Students produce original art that conveys an anti-bias or social justice message then work with school staff to plan a public showcase of their work.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

July 13, 2014

text

Informational

Maj Britt Theorin

“Maj Britt devoted her life to solving some of the most critical and intractable problems in the world today: peace, women’s rights and especially, nuclear disarmament.”

Learning for Justice Staff

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

Subject

History

August 8, 2017

article

March 16, 2015

When Racist Acts Obscure Racism

We rush to identify, punish and isolate the racists—like members of a University of Oklahoma fraternity—without scrutinizing racism.

teaching strategy

Word Work

Making Words

Making Words is a hands-on activity in which students learn how adding and moving letters can create new words.

Grade Level

3-5

CCSS

RL.3-5.4, RI.3-5.4, L.3-5.4

July 19, 2014

article

Issue 49, Spring 2015

A Message From Our Director

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

lesson

Using Editorial Cartoons to Teach Social Justice

Using Editorial Cartoons to Teach Social Justice is a series of 14 lessons. Each lesson focuses on a contemporary social justice issue. These lessons are multidisciplinary and geared toward middle and high school students.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

August 3, 2010

article

July 9, 2012

Size Bias Does Not Justify Bullying

A war on obesity is raging. Everyone from Jillian Michaels to Michelle Obama is calling for all Americans to lose the fat. But as doctors spend millions of dollars on fat-shaming billboards targeting children and studies proving that dieting simply doesn’t work, one might ask where does encouragement end and bullying begin?

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Bullying & Bias

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