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Help tolerance and inclusion last. Plan follow-up events to Mix It Up at Lunch Day!

The story “Z and Vielpunkt” teaches important lessons about how we show care for others. This toolkit provides writing, reflection and research activities to help students reflect on those lessons.

This toolkit for “Pink” helps educators raise their self-awareness about biases they hold.

The editor of Teaching Tolerance addresses issues of school violence.

“But nobody here listens to me,” Saul lamented as he tried to explain why he was in my office yet again this week. “I don’t know why I even bother to come here.” His refrain is a familiar one in my large, suburban high school. I have a feeling it’s a familiar one in high schools across the country. Our kids are crying out to be heard, and unfortunately, those cries often result in disciplinary referrals.

Many of my third-graders are very angry. They have good reason. Growing up in the most violent area in Oakland, many have lost family members to violence or experienced racial injustice. They distrust the people who are supposed to protect them. Anthony was one of my angriest students. His father was in prison. Anthony told me that he wanted to kill his father because fathers aren’t supposed to leave their families. He was 6 years old at the time.