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February 27, 2018

Reframing Gender Helps Kids See Beyond Other Binaries

Teaching gender as a spectrum has far-reaching consequences: Beyond helping students form a more complex understanding of gender identity, it helps them—and educators—see more nuance across a wide range of subjects.

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Gender & Sexual Identity

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Issue 57, Fall 2017

A Message From Our Director

Teaching Tolerance director Maureen Costello implores educators to pass on these lessons of love in the face of hate.

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May 22, 2018

Teachers, Facebook and Civic Engagement

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In the wake of the 2016 presidential election, many people—educators chief among them—joined activist Facebook groups. Researchers at the University of Florida studied how these groups influenced educators’ civic engagement. Here’s what they learned.

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Rights & Activism

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Katherine Watkins

Growing up with a racially conscious mother, Katherine Watkins has been educated on Native American and African American literature and continues to enrich her knowledge as an avid reader. With African-American, Cherokee, Apache, Choctaw, Comanche and Irish ancestry, she is extremely interested in improving race relations, as can be seen in her classroom and activism work. Watkins is a veteran teacher of 20 years and is working on her second memoir and a novella.

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Word Work

Vocabulary Prediction Chart

Students predict the meanings of vocabulary words before reading and confirm the accuracy of their predictions during and after reading. Students identify context clues from the text and revise their definitions accordingly.

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6-8 9-12

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L.6-12.4, L.6-12.6

July 19, 2014

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Issue 20, Fall 2001

Class Assignment

Can socioeconomic diversity restore the promise of school integration?

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Class

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Student Tasks

Assess your students with performance tasks and rubrics that measure writing, civic engagement and critical literacy skills. Write to the Source tasks allow students to demonstrate their argumentative, explanatory and

June 28, 2017

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Issue 64, Spring 2020

Let's Talk About It!

Illustration of five diverse young people sitting at a table together conversing, indicated via colorful speech bubbles.

Our new and improved guide for facilitating critical conversations with students.

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Issue 23, Spring 2003

What If?

The editor of Teaching Tolerance explores the ins and outs of social boundaries at school.

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Issue 51, Fall 2015

Toolkit for “What’s ‘Colorism’?”

Skin color bias affects perceptions and interactions, and yet, how often do educators discuss this phenomenon with their students? This toolkit for "What's 'Colorism'?" offers suggestions on how educators can broach the topic by using a graphic essay published in The Nib.

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