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In Support of All Body Types
Ronjanae broke down recently. She said she felt like “the only overweight child at this school.”
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The Study of Racial Representation via Television Commercial Analysis
In my Latino/Latina literature class, my primary intent is to help my students see the inequities created in our society by pervasive racism and discrimination. This project asks that the students watch two hours of
August 30, 2012
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Looking Beyond Oct. 29
Help tolerance and inclusion last. Plan follow-up events to Mix It Up at Lunch Day!
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“But I want to sit with my friends!”
Students may push back against sitting and eating with someone new. Be ready with a few key tools and phrases.
professional development
Teaching 'The New Jim Crow'
Teaching Tolerance teamed up with Michelle Alexander—author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness—to offer educators two FREE webinars exploring mass incarceration in the United States and how to teach about it.
September 23, 2014
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Toolkit for "Walking Undocumented"
This toolkit for “Walking Undocumented” highlights a handful of TT classroom materials for teaching about immigrant students, including those who may be undocumented or from mixed-status families.
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Close and Critical Reading
Annolighting
“Annolighting” (annotating and highlighting) shows students how to identify critical information in a text during close reading. Students learn to annotate text, highlight important facts and summarize what they have read to capture main ideas, concepts and details.
July 19, 2014
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Making Sense of the Senseless: The Murder of Lawrence King
On Feb. 12, 2008, 15-year-old Lawrence King was shot twice in the head in front of other students, in Oxnard, Calif. What this anti-gay hate crime teaches us.
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Against the Current
Alternative certification gives educators a different route to the classroom. Does it make them fish out of water once they get there?