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Teaching about religious extremism can be challenging, but not teaching about it may sow seeds of intolerance. This toolkit for "Extreme Prejudice" is an activity that teaches students about religious diversity and that extremists—in any religion—represent a small minority of people.

What good is a privilege walk activity if participants aren’t engaging in perspective shifting?

Challenging regional bias in the classroom is important.

This lesson plan is to accompany the Teaching Tolerance magazine article "Exposing Hidden Homophobia"

Two truths and one lie. That’s how Mix It Up at Lunch Day began at Fordson High School in Dearborn, Mich. Students sat down to lunch with people who were not in their usual social circle. As an icebreaker, students played a game in which one person told two truths and one lie: the rest of the group had to guess which statement was false.

When JT Eberhard of the Secular Student Alliance (SSA), an organization providing support to nontheistic students, received a letter from a teacher bragging about blocking formation of an atheist club, the lack of a return address didn’t slow him down. He used the email address provided by the sender to locate the teacher and alert administrators.

After rejecting an offer of prayer from a student, this teacher reflects about the power of religious freedom that she teaches in class.

A message from Teaching Tolerance director Brian Willoughby.

An African American art form offers new lessons in harmony.