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Celebrate Black History Month and Teach Black History All Year

In celebration of Black History Month, we offer a new resource page. From articles and publications to videos, lessons and stories, we’ve collected some of our best resources to help you learn about and elevate Black history in all of its complexity. Whether you’re building your own knowledge, looking for ways to expand your teaching of Black history, or celebrating stories with your family, we hope you’ll use these resources. Young people deserve to learn this history in ways that are accurate, comprehensive and age appropriate.

Learn From and Honor Black History
A Call for Anti-Bias Education
Teaching the Movement’s Most Iconic Figure

February 5, 2024

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Issue 62, Summer 2019

Toolkit for “The Subscribed Classroom: Using Podcasts to Teach About Social Justice”

Illustration of an open book where one of the pages is set up in the style of a podcast episode player.

Before you introduce a podcast to your students, consider these steps and recommendations.

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March 22, 2018

What Love, Simon Can Teach Us About Classroom Conversations

For the first time, a rom-com from a major studio is helping gay and bi teens feel seen—and celebrated. Teachers have an opportunity to do the same.

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Gender & Sexual Identity

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Identifying Bias and Perspective When Teaching About the Civil Rights Act of 1964

This session examines the five essential practices for teaching about the Civil Rights Movement, educate for empowerment, know how to talk about race, capture the unseen, tell a complicated story and connect to the present.

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Rights & Activism

June 30, 2017

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Listen, Look and Learn: Using Primary Sources to Teach the Freedom Struggle

Episode 12, Season 3 Oral histories, historic sites, archives and museums expand students’ understanding of the past. They fill in gaps in our textbooks—complementing what’s included and capturing what’s not. This

February 4, 2021

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November 1, 2019

“The Story of How I Teach Needed to Be Told”: Advice for TT Award Applicants From Winners

A photo shows awards given for the Teaching Tolerance Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Past TT Award winners explain how the application process and the honor itself have influenced them and their teaching.

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February 14, 2018

“All Our Terrible and Beautiful History”: Teach American History as a Human Story

Professor David W. Blight, director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, explains why prevailing American historical narratives necessitate Teaching Tolerance's Teaching Hard History report and recommendations.

Topic

Slavery Rights & Activism

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January 2, 2019

Open Secrets in First-Grade Math: Teaching About White Supremacy on American Currency

Shattered piggy bank laying on top of a large collection of U.S. currency coins.

Studying money is a staple of first-grade math. This teacher used it as an opportunity to educate about—and push back against—sexism, racism and white supremacy.

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity Bullying & Bias

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I Didn't Know There Were Cities in Africa: Challenging Children's-and Adult's-Misperceptions about the African Continent

In her article, Randolph delineates the profound impact of perpetuating stereotypical representations of Africa and its people by arranging them into three levels and then providing recommendations for how to combat them when creating learning experiences for students in the United States.

LFJ Staff

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Immigration

Subject

History

Geography

September 28, 2018

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Literature

Yaki's Mural

In this Story Corner from Teaching Tolerance Magazine, Yaki is nervous about making friends at her new school but finds a way to share her culture and art with her new class by creating a class mural.

Alexandra Melnick

Grade Level

3-5

Topic

Immigration

Subject

History

Geography

October 8, 2018

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