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Issue 42, Fall 2012

What We’re Reading

The Teaching Tolerance staff reviews the latest in culturally aware literature and resources, offering the best picks for professional development and teachers of all grades.

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February 26, 2018

Discussing "The Mental Health Issue" After Parkland

Male African-American Teacher Instructing Students | Teaching Tolerance

When talking with students about mass shootings, you can't avoid addressing mental health. This TT staffer offers recommendations for ways you can talk about mental health with your students—without adding to the stigma already in place.

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Ability Bullying & Bias Rights & Activism

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Gay and Lesbian Parents

In this nonfiction piece, Julianna Fields tells the story of Bailey and his two fathers. After protecting Bailey from onlookers' scorn when he was a child, the family decided to participate in a project showcasing the diversity found in local families.

Julianna Fields

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6-8

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Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism

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Civics

July 26, 2014

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September 7, 2017

One Penny and a Rock

Tangible items can be reminders of the value of people’s unique stories, of building relationships with students and colleagues, and of our mission as educators to teach acceptance and respect.

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Rights & Activism

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Issue 43, Spring 2013

Toolkit for “The School-to-Prison Pipeline”

The school-to-prison pipeline represents an intersection of complex issues, including race, class, education and the American justice system. Learn more by exploring the following research. Bibliography Bureau of Justice

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February 6, 2019

Call to Action: All Children Deserve to Be Free

A young person's hand reaching over barbed-wire fencing.

Guided by the belief that all children deserve to be free and to be in school, the organizers of Teachers Against Child Detention are calling upon fellow educators to demand the end of child immigrant detention.

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Immigration Rights & Activism

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August 7, 2019

Intersectional Identities: Do Educators Empower or Oppress?

Photo of author Maryam Asenuga's necklace in Arabic

In addressing intersecting identities, educators can contribute to students’ empowerment—or oppression. One TT intern reflects on her experiences as a Black, female, Muslim student.

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Religion Gender & Sexual Identity

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February 14, 2017

Black LGBTQ History: Teachers Must Do a Better Job

Civil rights and LGBTQ leader Bayard Rustin talking to four students gathered around him.

Our curricula should not present a narrow, monolithic narrative about Black history that omits certain voices and identity groups, such as LGBTQ individuals.

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Gender & Sexual Identity

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Text-Dependent Questions for “Mass Incarceration as a Form of Racialized Social Control”

These Text-Dependent Questions accompany “Mass Incarceration as a Form of Racialized Social Control.”

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9-12

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Class Rights & Activism

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Social Studies

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History

July 18, 2017

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Khiara M. Bridges, Ph.D., J.D.

Khiara M. Bridges, Ph.D., J.D., (she/her) is a professor of law at UC Berkeley School of Law. Her scholarship examines race, class, reproductive rights, and the intersection of the three. She is the author of numerous law review articles as well as three books, the most recent of which is Critical Race Theory: A Primer.

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