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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.
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Focus on the Family Goes After LGBT Students
For the last few days, an “educational analyst” for Focus on the Family has been getting a lot of press. She’s been suggesting that anti-bullying efforts that draw attention to the harassment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students are part of a “gay agenda” to “sneak homosexuality lessons into classrooms.”
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Toolkit for "Why Talk About Whiteness?"
This toolkit for “Why Talk About Whiteness?” offers nine steps to engage high school students in a guided viewing of The Whiteness Project. The Whiteness Project, an “interactive investigation into how Americans who identify as ‘white’ experience their ethnicity,” is available for free online.
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Post Election: Don’t Neglect Those Emotions
Empowering students and teachers with the skills of emotional intelligence can help create a more compassionate and just society.
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Teaching Students About Confirmation Bias
Concerns about the impact of fake news are actually concerns about learning to know. That’s why teaching about confirmation bias is imperative.
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A Classroom Discussion About the Media, Trust and Knowledge
Encouraging students to think through problems in the contemporary media landscape can help them become more active, open-minded knowledge-seekers.
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Should Your Hairstyle Be A Constitutional Right?
This lesson uses the strategies of “student questioning for purposeful learning” (SQPL) and jigsaw grouping to engage students in examining Constitutional issues related to school-based grooming policies.
February 10, 2014
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