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Rethinking Winter Holidays

Many schools enjoy celebrating a non-religious "holiday season" but clearly favor Christmas in their traditions and decor. Moreover, important non-Christian holidays that don't occur in December are often overlooked completely. This edition of The Moment offers resources that can help your school community become more inclusive by reflecting on how and when holidays show up in your hallways, assemblies and classrooms.

  • Avoiding the Holiday 'Balance Traps'
  • The December Dilemma
  • Analyzing the School Holiday Calendar
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Another Discriminatory Dress Code

This week, a Texas school district is making news for requiring a student to cut his locs before graduation. We’re heartened by how this student’s family and community are supporting him, but we must ask: How many other celebrations—and bodies—are still being regulated by discriminatory school policies? This is a conversation we should be having with students, colleagues and administrators. These resources can help.

  • Controlling the Student Body
  • Loc’d Out: How Thoughtless Dress Codes Can Harm Students From Day One
  • Students and Hair: The Freedom to Choose
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Our Spring Magazine Is Here!

The latest issue of Teaching Tolerance is now available online, and copies should begin arriving by mail next week! We’re proud to share stories about families uniting to fight racism in schools, advocates working to ensure no student goes hungry, scholars analyzing the impact of school curricula and more.

  • Responding to Hate and Bias in the West
  • Why Lunch Shaming Persists
  • Ending Curriculum Violence
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Film Kits

Bring social justice topics to life with our films, with user guides and lessons. Learning for Justice film kits are available FREE for use in K –12 schools, schools of education, public libraries, houses of worship, and
June 28, 2017
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Susan Coryat

Susan Coryat has taught English in public high schools for 20 years. She most recently developed and teaches a "Contemporary Connected English Studies" course that focuses on marginalized voices and uses experiential learning at Perkiomen Valley High School in Pennsylvania.
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Leah Patriarco

Leah Patriarco taught for 10 years, starting with preschool and ending with middle school social studies. She has a master’s in Education and Innovation with a focus on building sustainable, social justice-focused schools and recently left the classroom to pursue other ways to address oppression.