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April 20, 2020

District Responses to Coronavirus: Examples to Follow

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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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Ability Class Rights & Activism

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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.

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6-8 9-12

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Gender & Sexual Identity

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Reading & Language Arts

Social Studies

History

May 11, 2012

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June 6, 2018

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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Bullying & Bias Rights & Activism

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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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Issue 54, Fall 2016

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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Gender & Sexual Identity

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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.”

Carmela Pollio, Laurence Hewitt and Yoshiharu Hewitt

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K-2 3-5

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Class Immigration

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Economics

Geography

July 8, 2014

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Issue 59, Summer 2018

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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November 13, 2017

Q&A: Native Knowledge 360°

Native Knowledge 360° 2017 Summer Educator Institute | NMAI

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.

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Putting It All Together

Bigotry left unanswered is bigotry tacitly approved. If you don’t speak up, you are saying, in your silence, that you condone it.

July 31, 2012

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October 2, 2018

No Student Is Too Young to Use Their Voice This Election Season

Here are three easy ways to encourage younger students to participate in their democracy.

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Rights & Activism

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