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Leah Patriarco

Leah Patriarco taught for 10 years, starting with preschool and ending with middle school social studies. She has a master’s in Education and Innovation with a focus on building sustainable, social justice-focused schools and recently left the classroom to pursue other ways to address oppression.
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2015-17 Teaching Tolerance Advisory Board

Teaching Tolerance couldn’t serve educators the way we do without the feedback and support of an important group of teachers, counselors, media specialists, school- and district-level administrators and education professors: the Teaching Tolerance Advisory Board. These educators and leaders volunteer their time to review our resources, try our curriculum and act as ambassadors for TT. Dale Allender – Assistant professor of education, Sacramento, California Lhisa Almashy – High school ESL teacher, Palm Beach County, Florida Kim Estelle – Elementary school teacher, Huntsville, Alabama Carrie
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Unlocking the Brilliant Corners

B loves bugs. I met him during the first week of school as I conducted the standard assessment of how many words he could read per minute from a second-grade story. After the assessment, I gave him the customary caterpillar sticker to put on his shirt to show everyone that he was going to emerge as a great reader during his second-grade year.
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Immigration
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The Case of the Black Barbie Doll

Leslie, a 38-year-old social worker who counsels children with stressful life situations, found her 4-year-old daughter, Sophia, engaged in animated play with her dolls. She watched incredulously as Sophia invited the four white dolls with blonde hair to a tea party while the dark-skinned doll with black hair lay alone across the room.
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Bullying & Bias
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Home-to-School Connections

Educators who connect their teaching to students’ cultures, languages and heritage create classroom environments that value critical home-school relationships, affirm student identities and challenge stereotypes.
May 26, 2023