We all have a responsibility to resist hate in our society and to foster safer learning spaces for young people — especially those being targeted by hate and discrimination. Cultivating dialogue, engaging with facts and protecting students’ right to learn are essential components in strategies for prevention, intervention and response to hate and bias.
The media in today’s political environment is filled with divisive messages, especially from public figures who perpetuate hate along with disinformation. Many of these messages target people based on identity — race and ethnicity, immigration status, sexual and gender identity, religion and more. And young people who are exposed to hate-filled media often struggle to discern facts and participate responsibly in their schools and communities. Understanding the connections between race in our history and white supremacist ideologies today is crucial for countering hate in the United States.
The resources in this series offer strategies to help us engage as a broader community across our differences and build networks to foster resilience and take action to resist hate and bias.
Learning, Reflection and Action
Understanding Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Education
To address antisemitism and Islamophobia in schools, we need to understand these forms of hate and how they show up in education spaces.
Transforming School Culture To Address Antisemitism and Islamophobia
Resources and recommendations for constructing supportive and inclusive learning spaces to address antisemitism and Islamophobia.
A Culture of Dialogue Is Foundational to Democracy
This resource summarizes key points addressing the questions: What is dialogue across difference, and how is dialogue foundational to democracy?
Handle With Care
During crisis events, these recommendations and resources can help guide conversations with young people and manage potential actions and reactions.
Understanding and Responding to Trauma
Strategies to help educators recognize the signs of trauma, better understand the causes of trauma, and take steps to establish social and emotional safety.
Supporting Students from Immigrant Families
A resource page to learn more about immigrant students’ rights, public schools’ obligations to immigrant students, and information for families.
RELATED RESOURCES, SERIES AND ARTICLES
Teaching Hard History Podcast
Four seasons, over 30 episodes, examining race in American history from slavery through the Civil Rights Movement and to the present.
Teaching Hard History: American Slavery
Understanding the history of American slavery can help us address racism today. This framework offers strategies for teaching about slavery.
Learning from the Civil Rights Movement (Series)
The learning journeys and resources in this series can help us learn from our history and examine today’s justice issues.
History and the Power of Place
Video and Q&A conversations with four Civil Rights Movement activists and witnesses to history.
Teaching the Civil Rights Movement Framework
This framework begins in 1877 with Reconstruction and continues the narrative of the movement for equality and civil rights to the present.
Advocating for Teaching Honest History
The honest history of our nation is crucial for countering hate and bigotry. This guide offers practical guidance.
Queer America Podcast Series
This series takes listeners on a journey that spans from Harlem to the Frontier West, revealing stories of LGBTQ+ experiences.
Supporting LGBTQ+ Rights and Inclusion
A resource page with links to articles and content on inclusive practices and recommendations for being an ally in advocating for the LGBTQ+ individuals and families in your communities.
Best Practices for Serving LGBTQ+ Students
This guide offers practices to ensure that all students feel safe, seen and capable of success in a school climate that fosters open and respectful engagement.
Dialogue Across Difference
Dialogue skills can develop foundational capacity for civic engagement and collective action to strengthen our democracy.
The Promise of Building Bridges
The UCLA Dialogue Across Difference Initiative offers a model to foster a culture of meaningful exchange, empathy and critical thinking in education and communities.
Exclusion Is Unconstitutional
Acts of censorship in education perpetuated by a small group with concentrated power go against the principles outlined in the United States Constitution.
Inspiring Hope: A Conversation With Maud Dahme
Maud Dahme, Holocaust survivor and educator, emphasizes the importance of survivor testimony in learning from the past and uplifts our shared humanity.
Acclaimed Documentary ‘One Survivor Remembers’ Urges All to Never Forget
Survivor testimony provides a crucial way to learn about the Holocaust, understand the context, history and diversity of Jewish people, and address antisemitism in the world today.
One Survivor Remembers
This award-winning 1995 documentary is based on the testimony of Gerda Weissmann Klein.
'Never Again' Starts With Education
Mandating Holocaust education in U.S. public schools and simultaneously banning or censoring other “hard histories” is ineffective, disingenuous and further demonstrates the importance of teaching honest history.
Hope, Despair and Memory
Address given by Elie Wiesel — author, humanitarian and Holocaust survivor — on December 11, 1986, the date Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Let's Talk
Resource guide for educators working to build competency facilitating conversations about critical topics.
Speak Up at School
Resource guide for adults on responding to biased remarks and stereotypes—and how to teach students to speak up as well.
Responding to Hate and Bias at School
Guidance for administrators and educators on preventing and navigating a bias- or hate-related crisis at school.
Building Resilience Against Manipulative Disinformation
Supporting young people’s mental health and well-being is essential in addressing vulnerabilities to harmful disinformation.
Prevention and Resilience
During this time of political and social turmoil, build networks of trusted adults to help young people understand, contextualize and counter manipulative and harmful information.
Against Hate
Webinar on media literacy and other tools for responding to hate and combating extremism.
