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This toolkit for “If It Can Happen Here...” provides adapted versions of some of the lessons used during Berkeley’s immigration Teach In.

Encourage students to respectfully ask questions and make statements about other belief systems.

Raige Hollis always liked the idea of talking to classmates. In fact, he says he's "friends with everybody." So when his high school announced plans for a Mix It Up at Lunch Day, Hollis, captain of the football team and senior classman, was all in. But some of his classmates at Laconia High School in New Hampshire were less excited about sitting down to lunch with folks who were not part of their usual circles.

I love teaching in a co-op with other homeschoolers and former public educators. We are an incredibly diverse group—racially, ability-wise and religiously. We also incorporate diversity in our guest speakers and field trips. The first day of school this year, we were chanting and doing art projects with Tibetan monks. So how do we make Mix It Up at Lunch Day unique with this gorgeous hodgepodge of people that is already used to joining together?

Here’s how one teacher is engaging her students on Day of the Girl, observed annually on October 11. Try these ideas in your classroom, too.

School gardens can foster cross-cultural and multicultural understandings.

This professional development activity gives ideas for developing narrative empathy: using the power of story to step into another person’s shoes in the name of justice.