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Youth—United! #Enough in South Central Los Angeles
Marco Vargas, a leader with Students Demand Action and a senior at Nava College Preparatory Academy, is working to keep his school and his community safe from gun violence.
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How to ‘Roar’
Tips for using grassroots organizing to engage your school’s parents.
August 24, 2009
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Mary Church Terrell
In this lesson of the series, “Beyond Rosa Parks: Powerful Voices for Civil Rights and Social Justice,” students will read and analyze text from “The Progress of Colored Women,” a speech made by Mary Church Terrell in 1898. Terrell was the first president of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW), an organization that was formed in 1896 from the merger of several smaller women’s clubs, and was active during the period of Jim Crow segregation in the South.
May 11, 2012
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District Responses to Coronavirus: Examples to Follow
Advocate for students and families during this crisis by using this resource to evaluate your district’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and offer recommendations for changes.
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Worried About a Friend? Use Your E.D.G.E.
Students don’t always know how to help someone they care about who might be experiencing bullying, suicidal thoughts or other problems. This can help.
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Advice From the Experts
TT answers your tough questions. This time, advice on creating a transgender-inclusive school culture and a successful Mix It Up event.
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Introduction
About Teaching Tolerance A project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Teaching Tolerance (TT) offers a broad range of free materials for K–12 educators. The project’s best-known product may be its magazine, published
October 23, 2018
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StoryCorps: My Father Worked in a Chocolate Factory
“My father went to work in a chocolate factory. When he'd come home, his hair was all full of chocolate; his pillows were all brown.”
July 8, 2014
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Toolkit for “Be Your Own Historian”
Teach and learn about the Reconstruction era with resources—including videos, texts, lessons and a unit plan—from Facing History and Ourselves.
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Q&A: Native Knowledge 360°
The same limited stories about American Indians persist in textbooks. The National Museum of the American Indian’s new program is looking to change that.