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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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Teaching the Movement
We’ve rereleased the powerful documentary, "A Time for Justice," to help schools educate their students about the civil rights movement.
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Three Years Old, Black and Suspended
It’s time to intervene with alarmingly high preschool suspensions.
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The Leaf Rakers
When a neighbor makes a racist comment, Annie and Beth must find the courage to speak up.
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A Message From Our Director
Teaching Tolerance director Maureen Costello asks: Do our schools allow students agency and security?
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A Message From Our Director
TT director Maureen Costello encourages educators to raise students ready to address injustice.
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Teachers, Check Your Texts
LGBTQ Asian identities need to be amplified in the school curriculum—and not just during a heritage month.
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Responding to the Read-Aloud Text
Resistant Reading
During resistant reading, students analyze the dominant reading of a text and “resist” it by engaging in alternative readings. Resistant readings scrutinize the beliefs and attitudes that typically go unexamined in a text, drawing attention to the gaps, silences and contradictions.
July 19, 2014
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Out of the Mouths of Babes
Even young students notice when their cultures are relevant only during heritage months.
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Suspending Hope
Schools in Maryland and Connecticut are rethinking suspension policies and practices.