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What We’re Reading
The Teaching Tolerance staff reviews the latest in culturally aware literature and resources, offering the best picks for professional development and teachers of all grades.
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Student Posters Speak up against Bullying
"Don't Be a Bystander,” says one of the anti-bullying posters created by Tualatin High School students. It’s an important message for students to hear. In an effort to combat the growing bullying crisis, Teacher Rachel Robinson showed her advanced digital arts classes Teaching Tolerance’s film, “Bullied: A Student, a School and a Case That Made History.”
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Righting Old Wrongs
By the time the first few Mormon families moved back into Jackson County in 1867, old hostilities no longer threatened their freedom or safety. Nonetheless, Gov. Boggs' Extermination Order remained on the books more than a century, until a subsequent governor made this proclamation in 1976.
April 28, 2016
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Wings of Witness
A 7th grade Holocaust history project evolves into a memorial sculpture.
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Poetry and Storytelling Café
Students write and share original poems and stories about community issues or themes present in the central text.
July 13, 2014
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Illustrated Vocabulary
In this visual strategy, students divide vocabulary words into parts and draw illustrations to represent the separate meaning of each part.
July 19, 2014
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Celebrate Women This Black History Month
Historian Carter G. Woodson established the first Negro History Week in 1926—a celebration that later became Black History Month. The Association for the Study of African American Life and History, a group founded by Woodson, selects a new theme for Black History Month each year. This year’s theme is "Black Women in American Culture and History."
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Becoming Joey
This poem, told by a third-person omniscient narrator, paints a picture of José, an immigrant student who carries the burden of being from the “borderlands.”
October 29, 2015
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Online Exclusive! "Becoming Joey"
How can a student begin the walk to school with one name and arrive with another? Hear the story of "Becoming Joey," a poem by Paul Gorski, read by Gabriela Bovea.