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An Open Letter to Teachers Everywhere
A look at an educator's struggle to reconcile ideology with reality in our nations' classrooms and schools.
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Common Roadblocks
To accompany Best Practices: Creating an LGBT-inclusive School Climate. Some individuals may hesitate about adopting practices or policies that advance equality and safety for LGBTQ students.
July 16, 2009
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New Resources from Teaching Tolerance
Two new resources from Teaching Tolerance can help educators address acts of bigotry that threaten a healthy school climate.
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Toxic Masculinity Is Bad for Everyone: Why Teachers Must Disrupt Gender Norms Every Day
While we as a society work together for solutions to end mass violence, we educators need to rethink how we teach masculinity through our deeds and actions.
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New Girl in School
This story follows a girl who befriends the first African American to attend High Point Central High School, as a result of desegregation. What begins as an unintended and awkward experience in the cafeteria, becomes a strong and admirable friendship.
July 16, 2018
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Hate at School: January 2018
Last month, we tracked 64 school-based episodes of hate in 32 states—the most since October.
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Teaching Consent Doesn't Have to Be Hard
What if teaching consent to middle school students was so easy and uncontroversial that every school did it? The good people at Power Up, Speak Out! believe that's possible.
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Discussing "The Mental Health Issue" After Parkland
When talking with students about mass shootings, you can't avoid addressing mental health. This TT staffer offers recommendations for ways you can talk about mental health with your students—without adding to the stigma already in place.
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Hate at School: March 2018
While student activism rightfully stole the headlines, we tracked 35 school-based episodes of hate and bias in 18 states during the month of March.
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The Wind Passed Through Wyoming and Held Your Name
This poem was written as a tribute on the 20th anniversary of Matthew Shepard's death, connecting him to the painful history of anti-LGBTQ violence.
July 12, 2018