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How We Live Our Lives
Teaching Tolerance director Lecia J. Brooks reflects on the still segregated nature of our public schools.
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What We’re Reading
The Teaching Tolerance staff reviews the latest in culturally aware literature and resources, offering the best picks for professional development and teachers of all grades.
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You Spoke, We Listened
Our latest magazine issue, new website launch and social media news stories inspired a lot of dialogue with our community. Keep the feedback coming!
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Discovering My Identity
In this lesson, students will describe aspects of their identities such as race, gender, ability, religion and more. Then after exploring Marley Dias' Black Girls Books campaign, students will analyze book illustrations and write their own book review noting how characters are similar and different from them.
October 6, 2016
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Heading Off the Storm of Hate, Together
Our colleagues at Not In Our Town weigh in on strategies for confronting bias, intolerance and bullying.
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The Danger of the Story of “Both Sides”
Combating “single stories” is no longer as simple as including “multiple perspectives” in the classroom. Whose stories we share and why should be part of classroom discourse.
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The Learning Center and Civics for Democracy
Introducing LFJ’s Learning Center, our new online popular education space for everyone (adults, youth and children), offering learning for civic and political action. The Learning Center continues our Community Justice Sites programming in our Southern states and extends our resources to a national audience. This new landing page and menu provides links to our new learning resources and series.
- Our Votes Matter: Action Steps in Planning to Vote
- Civics for Democracy
- The Learning Center
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An Open Letter to Ann Coulter
Following a presidential debate in 2012, Ann Coulter referred to President Barack Obama as a "retard" in one of her tweets. Stephens, a 30-year-old man with Down syndrome wrote this open letter to Coulter in response to her hurtful and uninformed comments.
July 5, 2014
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Teaching and Affirming LGBTQ Youth after the ‘Bostock’ Decision
This summer’s landmark Supreme Court case made it illegal to fire someone based on their gender or sexuality. But ‘Bostock’ is a baseline, not a ceiling.
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Eyes on the Prize
Teaching Tolerance interim director Jennifer Holladay wants TT to serve you better.