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Toolkit for Race ≠ DNA
This toolkit provides a professional development framework for looking at common misconceptions surrounding race and ancestry, as well as ways to debunk them and build identify-safe classrooms and schools.
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Bridge Builder
Superintendent Heidi Sipe is committed to building the bridges students need to follow their dreams.
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July 27, 2017
Lost in Translation
This piece accompanies the Teaching Tolerance feature story " Lonely Language Learners?" Just after 8 o'clock on a rainy April morning, teacher Helen Reid greets three of her students, none of whom has been in the U.S
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Four Strategies for Building Relationships With Students
Building relationships with students sometimes takes a back seat to achieving passing test scores. That doesn’t have to be the case, according to this sixth-grade teacher.
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An Unlikely Friendship
Story Corner - Natalie gains a new friend that she almost missed out on.
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What’s So Bad About “That’s So Gay”?
Almost every teacher has heard students use the expression, “that’s so gay” as a way of putting down or insulting someone (or to describe something). These lessons will help students examine how inappropriate language can hurt, and will help them think of ways to end this kind of name-calling.
February 27, 2010
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Passages in the Life of a Slave Woman
In this short story, from the 1853 abolitionist collection Autographs for Freedom, Parker shares a heartbreaking tale that shows some of the damage enslavement inflicts on families.
December 15, 2017
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Rural Schools and Hard History
The rich history and diversity of rural communities have largely been erased. Appreciating both charts a promising path forward.
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Toolkit for “Lies My Bookshelf Told Me: Slavery in Children’s Literature”
Our online Teaching Hard History Text Library includes a wealth of primary and secondary source documents about slavery to share with students of all ages.
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The New Mad Men
“The New Mad Men” explores how changing demographics in the United States have changed the face of advertising. In particular, the focus is on the purchasing power of the 54 million Latinx people currently living in the United States. The episode visits the headquarters of LatinWorks, an advertising agency in Austin, Texas, with a specialty in multicultural advertising.
November 24, 2014