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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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Three Tips for Current-Event Lesson Plans
Do you ever struggle to create a quick lesson about a current event? This teacher offers strategies to do it well.
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Counselors, Not Cops
Yesterday, the Dignity in Schools Campaign released a policy platform that calls for the end of police presence in schools.
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Putting It Into Words
Grade-level responses to the use of pejorative or bigoted terms, or benign terms used with a pejorative tone or manner.
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Toolkit for 'Once Upon a Time in America'
The year 1963 marks the 50 th anniversary of many milestones in the civil rights movement. In the current issue of Teaching Tolerance, “ Once Upon a Time in America” traces some of the movements’ toughest trials. The
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A Teacher Remembers Pete Seeger
The legendary folk singer affected students through avenues beyond song.
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The Educational Canvas: R.I.P. Grant Wiggins
A Teaching Tolerance staffer reflects on how Grant Wiggins influenced her teaching and the education world at large.
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Toolkit for "The Ripple Effect"
This toolkit for "The Ripple Effect" couples two powerful YCteen stories with the rigorous literacy strategies and tasks from TT's classroom resources.
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Putting Feelings into Words
Emotions can be frightening for all of us, especially for children. But if students don’t have the vocabulary to express their feelings, they may turn to acting out. This fails to resolve the feelings and makes a teacher’s life much more difficult.
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Exploring Why People Don’t Become Activists
This teacher uses activist memoirs and an engaging exercise to help her students overcome internal barriers to acting on their values.