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Community Walks: A Day of Learning for Schools
Through community walks around students’ neighborhoods, educators and school staff can learn from those they teach, creating a stronger and more responsive school community.
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Bound for Sainthood
This excerpt accompanies the Teaching Tolerance lesson "Pauli Murray: Fighting Jane and Jim Crow."
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Controversial Subjects in the Classroom
Invariably, issues are raised in classrooms that bring charged responses from students. How can educators set the stage for safe, respectful dialogue and learning?
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The Place for Activism in English Class
Using activist memoirs can help students understand how people effected change in the past—and how young people can effect change now.
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The Case for Love in the Classroom
What’s the connection between love and education? A TT awardee shares how love informs her practice.
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Toolkit for Tongue-Tied
This toolkit shows how Teaching Tolerance’s Critical Practices for Anti-bias Education can help foster safe and effective instruction about the sensitive and serious topic of slavery.
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Hate Speech Overheard
When students see you ignore hateful language, they are learning an important lesson—and not the kind you want them to learn.
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The Activist Award Essay
To close an English unit on social activism, this teacher had her students reflect by recognizing and writing about the activist potential in their classmates.
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Flagler County: A Case for Suspension Abolition
A troubled Florida community becomes a pioneer in discipline reform.
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Celebrate Juneteenth!
Juneteenth—celebrated across the country on June 19—marks an important milestone in the struggle for freedom. But the lessons of this holiday can and should be taught year-round. Use these resources to learn more about Juneteenth, get ideas for sharing it with students and contextualize it within American history.
- Teaching Juneteenth
- Happy Juneteenth!
- “We Are Our Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams”