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When this teacher asked newly-minted sixth-graders how they want to treat themselves, others and their communities during middle school, paper airplanes made for a creative way for these students to offer answers.

"Teachers can implement [these] specific methods and strategies which will communicate to Indian students an attitude of understanding and caring while demanding high performance."

Role-playing can help planners counter resistance to Mix It Up.

This excerpt accompanies the Teaching Tolerance lesson "Pauli Murray: Fighting Jane and Jim Crow."

Safety Helps Overcome Stereotypes in This ESOL Class

Among my third-graders, conflicts often arose over the issue of skin color. “Your mama left you in the oven too long. You look just like a burnt cookie!” “Oh yeah, well you look like a white boy. I bet you ain’t even black.” As a young white teacher coming into a school that is about half African-American and half Latino, I knew there would be racial conflicts, but I didn’t know how they would manifest themselves. I assumed that both groups’ first concern would be the oppression and racism from white people. I was not expecting the intense criticism that I found within the African-American community of its own members.