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Experience the Civil Rights Road Trip
Many schools are offering civil rights trips over spring break. Find out how you can engage students in your communities and across the country.
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A Message From Our Director
Teaching Tolerance director Maureen Costello wants us to overcome fear.
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Community Inquiry
Text Talk Time (6-8, 9-12)
A whole class discussion structured to facilitate rich dialogue, active listening and use of textual evidence.
July 13, 2014
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Out With Pizza, In With Veggies, Black Beans
Something was different at the school cafeteria. The menu included a vegetarian meal of elbow macaroni with cheddar cheese and broccoli. There was also a choice of a 100-percent-beef burger (without pink slime!) on a whole-grain bun. And there was ginger-carrot soup, whole-grain breads, leafy green salads, black beans and shredded cheese.
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Don’t Miss a Chance to Shift Hate Rhetoric
“I hate Jews.” That was the sentence, uttered coldly and dripping with vile undertones, from the mouth of a sixth-grader that nearly caused me to let a very powerful teachable moment slip through my fingers. Almost.
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Ed Café
Facilities and resources matter. How can educators bridge divides amongst schools?
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Do Something
Identity Artifacts Museum
Students create a display of artifacts to represent aspects of their identities.
July 13, 2014
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Exploring Texts Through Read Alouds
Creating Questions to Engage Critically with Texts
This strategy provides tools to create questions that help students engage critically with Perspectives central texts and examine them for issues of power and social inequity. The activities suggested here also encourage readers to bring their knowledge and experiences to the reading of a text.
July 16, 2014
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Close and Critical Reading
Thinking Notes
Thinking notes are text annotations (highlights, underlines or symbols made on the text or in the margins) that document student thinking during reading. Depending on how you structure the task, these notes can indicate agreement, objection, confusion or other relevant reactions to the text.
July 19, 2014