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Teaching 'The New Jim Crow'

Teaching Tolerance teamed up with Michelle Alexander—author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness—to offer educators two FREE webinars exploring mass incarceration in the United States and how to teach about it.

September 23, 2014

text

Informational

The Story of Suzie King Taylor

Doreen Rappaport tells the story of a young Suzie King Taylor and her brother who attended a secret school for black children in Georgia in the mid-1800s. Later on, Taylor would become the first black woman to teach openly in a freedmen's school.

Doreen Rappaport

Grade Level

K-2 3-5

Topic

Class Rights & Activism

Subject

Civics

History

July 3, 2014

professional development

Mutual Learning Through Conversation

Certain encounters help young students develop values and virtues that open spaces in their minds and hearts so they can see the world and its people in broader terms.

Professional Development Topic

Instruction

Topic

Immigration

July 5, 2017

article

January 2, 2018

Toolkit for "Statistically Speaking"

Is teacher bullying an issue at your school? This toolkit offers practical suggestions for how to identify the problem and what to do about it.

student task

Do Something

Teachers Against Child Detention Book and Letter Drive

Estimated Time One week Why? Sharing a book they love helps students develop empathy. Articulating why the book is meaningful to them challenges students to communicate their thoughts and feelings in writing

Grade Level

K-2 3-5 6-8 9-12

February 6, 2019

article

Issue 44, Summer 2013

Helping Students Realize Their Potential

Tracy Oliver-Gary is helping students realize their full potential.

text

Informational

Abraham Lincoln & Frederick Douglass: The Story Behind an American Friendship

This text explores the relationship between Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, two self-made men whose lives intersected near the end of America's Civil War.

Russell Freedman

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Class

Subject

History

July 10, 2017

article

Issue 55, Spring 2017

Mariposas

This Latina civic empowerment program seeks to “take stories of adversity and flip them into stories of glory.”

article

May 9, 2014

You CAN Teach About Religion in Public School!

The First Amendment defines the parameters of including religious content in U.S. public school classrooms, but teachers still wonder: What does religion as content look like?

Topic

Religion

publication

The Hierarchy of Hate in School

Whether looking at news media reports or reading educator stories, it’s clear that hate and bias are national, not regional, issues. We saw both media and educator reports from all 50 states and Washington, D.C., in 2018

April 23, 2019