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Examining Identity and Assimilation
Examine identity and assimilation with an activity that asks the essential question: Was there ever a part of your identity you had to hide?
July 6, 2009
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Domestic Tranquility
The editor of Teaching Tolerance reflects on the lessons of Sept. 11.
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A Teacher Without Borders
The editor of Teaching Tolerance reflects on a peace project that is beating the odds.
professional development
5 Steps To Safer Schools
How can educators and schools create learning environments free of anti-gay discrimination?
July 16, 2009
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Peaceful Lessons from Peaceful Leaders: Tri-Leadership
This shortest month of the year is typically filled with history reports, pageants, guest speakers, cultural fairs and the like. Seldom a day goes by that we don't hear the names of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Madame C.J. Walker, George Washington Carver, and so on.
July 17, 2009
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professional development
Common Beliefs Survey: Teaching Racially and Ethnically Diverse Students
This professional development activity examines common beliefs that help and hinder work with racially and ethnically diverse students.
July 12, 2009
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Acknowledging the Bigotry Within
A couple of nights ago, I took my daughter to Chuck-E-Cheese, a tradition of ours when her other mother is out of town. We play skee-ball to win long rows of tickets that we later exchange for plastic toys and stickers. We play — it’s our way of lessening how much we miss the Mom who’s not with us. This particular evening something besides the blinking lights of games caught my eye, though.
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Creating Unity at Lawndale
As you know, many schools in Los Angeles have dealt with racial tensions, race riots, and violence on campus stemming from issues of race and misunderstanding.