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Among Friends and Neighbors

Many stories people shared with us dealt with difficult moments involving friends and neighbors. Factors that affect how they speak up include how well or little they know each other, how often they interact and how damaging they consider the offense to be.

Topic

Bullying & Bias

July 20, 2009

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November 14, 2011

2011 Teaching Tolerance Award Winners

Teaching Tolerance recognized five outstanding educators with the first-ever Teaching Tolerance Award for Excellence in Culturally Responsive Teaching on Dec. 9th in Washington, D.C.

article

March 13, 2013

A Teacher Reflects on the Literary Canon

This high school language arts teacher marvels at how his students were engaged in controversial and difficult topics.

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In the City of Brotherly Love

“The Irish and the English share a long legacy of conflict.” And this conflict extended across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World as a wave of Catholic immigrants arrived in the United States in the 1820s.

Jim Carnes

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Religion Class Immigration Bullying & Bias Rights & Activism

Subject

Civics

History

May 22, 2017

article

July 7, 2009

Re-igniting the Passion to Teach

A web exclusive for "Dancing with Languages," from the September 2008 issue of Teaching Tolerance magazine.

article

March 25, 2015

Tackling Implicit Bias

boy standing outside of group of children

From Selma to Ferguson and beyond, implicit bias has been at play. But educators can take steps to understand this bias and move toward solutions.

Topic

Bullying & Bias

article

Issue 55, Spring 2017

Controlling the Student Body

Are your school’s dress and behavior policies doing more harm than good?

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

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Informational

Just Peace: A Message of Hope

In this book excerpt Mattie Stepanek describes what it is like living with a rare neuromuscular disease. Defying many developmental odds, Mattie recounts highs and lows as he travels toward his tenth birthday, living on what he terms “the edge.”

Mattie Stepanek

Grade Level

3-5 6-8 9-12

Topic

Ability

July 5, 2014

article

June 25, 2015

After the Flag Comes Down

There’s growing momentum to take down Confederate flags, but our work to denounce systemic racism cannot stop at symbolic markers.

Topic

Rights & Activism

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Latinos and the Fourteenth Amendment: A Primary Document Activity

In this lesson, students will work in pairs and use expert reading strategies to analyze the Court’s ruling in Hernandez v. Texas. After participating in a carousel discussion, students will write a three-minute paper describing how the United States would be different if the Court had reached an alternate conclusion.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Subject

Reading & Language Arts

Social Studies

Civics

ELL / ESL

September 14, 2009

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