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How to Implement 'Speak Up At School'

Here are activities designed for educators implementing the strategies presented in Speak Up At School to create a safe school climate.

Professional Development Topic

School Climate

Topic

Bullying & Bias

May 2, 2014

article

October 19, 2015

Are Your Students Prisoners?

How educators talk about school climate can play an important role in how students feel about school.

Topic

Bullying & Bias

lesson

“Issues of Poverty” is comprised of four lessons with two overarching goals. First, the lessons aim to help students understand that poverty is systemic, rooted in economics, politics and discrimination. Second, the lessons provide evidence to show that poverty, far from being random, disproportionately affects Americans who have traditionally experienced oppression—African Americans, Latinos, immigrants and children.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Class

Subject

Reading & Language Arts

Social Studies

Economics

ELL / ESL

February 9, 2012

article

May 3, 2016

Excellence With Equity: A Mentor’s Approach, Part 3

This new-educator mentor discusses how mentoring can expand beginning teachers’ critical lens toward advocacy for students and their professional agency in rerouting the school-to-prison pipeline.

article

April 2, 2015

Complexities of Complexion…Revisited

This educator reflects on a blog she wrote for Teaching Tolerance in 2014—and finds herself confronting the same misperceptions from others about her culture and worldview.

Topic

Bullying & Bias

article

July 9, 2012

Size Bias Does Not Justify Bullying

A war on obesity is raging. Everyone from Jillian Michaels to Michelle Obama is calling for all Americans to lose the fat. But as doctors spend millions of dollars on fat-shaming billboards targeting children and studies proving that dieting simply doesn’t work, one might ask where does encouragement end and bullying begin?

Topic

Bullying & Bias

article

Issue 15, Spring 1999