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July 7, 2009

Steps To Take When A Book Is Challenged

Learn how to combat censorship and book banning in your school or community with these actions from the American Library Association, National Council of Teachers of English and People for the American Way.

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Issue 52, Spring 2016

Toolkit for "Shifting Out of Neutral"

This toolkit for “Shifting Out of Neutral” focuses on historical thinking development through critical literacy and builds on author Jonathan Gold’s call for educators to acknowledge and teach about power and bias.

student task

Write to the Source

Lift a Line

Lift A Line asks students to demonstrate their explanatory and descriptive writing skills.

Grade Level

3-5

CCSS

W.3-5.2, W.3-5.4, W.4-5.9

July 19, 2014

student task

Write to the Source

Questions that Come Up

Questions that Come Up asks students to demonstrate their explanatory and informative writing skills.

Grade Level

3-5

CCSS

W.3-5.2, W.3-5.4, W.4-5.9

July 19, 2014

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April 4, 2017

Welcome Aboard, Advisory Board!

We’re happy to introduce the educators who will serve on our advisory board for the next two years!

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April 3, 2012

Announcing the 2012 Mix It Up at Lunch Model Schools

Teaching Tolerance has named 77 schools—25 more than last year—from across the country as Mix It Up Model Schools for their exemplary efforts to foster respect and understanding among their students and throughout their campuses during the 2011-12 school year.

teaching strategy

Close and Critical Reading

GIST

Generating Interactions between Schemata and Texts (GIST) is a summarization procedure that helps students digest complex texts by requiring contextual word learning. GIST explicitly combines the most important words with reading and writing to comprehend complex texts.

Grade Level

3-5

CCSS

RL.3-5.2, RI.3-5.2, RL.3-5.4, RI.3-5.4, RF.3-5.4, L.3-5.4

July 19, 2014

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Issue 28, Fall 2005

Bully on the Bus

Teaching Tolerance illustration of students pointing angry to the big kid at the school bus door

Does your school's anti-bullying policy end at the edge of the parking lot?

Topic

Bullying & Bias

teaching strategy

Community Inquiry

Say Something

A comprehension strategy during which student take turns reading aloud to each other, stopping occasionally to comment on the text.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

CCSS

RL.6-12.1, RL.6-12.2, RI.6-12.1, RI.6-12.2, SL.6-12.1, SL.6-12.2, SL.6-12.6

July 13, 2014

student task

Do Something

Consuming and Creating Political Art

Students examine the history of political art. They then create their own murals, political cartoons or posters, demonstrating an understanding of social justice issues.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

July 13, 2014

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