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Advice From the Experts
TT answers your tough questions. This time, we discuss teaching black history and honoring your and your students’ identities.
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2011 Teaching Tolerance Award Winners
Teaching Tolerance recognized five outstanding educators with the first-ever Teaching Tolerance Award for Excellence in Culturally Responsive Teaching on Dec. 9th in Washington, D.C.
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Bibi
This film explores intersectionality in a powerful way, illustrating the beauty and conflict that can arise as we move between languages, places and societal expectations. (Available for streaming only)
May 27, 2020
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Home Visits
Family engagement sounds good in theory, but what does it look like in practice? Special thanks to The Parent Teacher Home Visit Project and the Family and Community Engagement Team at Denver Public Schools whose work informed this PD Café.
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Freedom To Read, Freedom To Learn
These resources can help you learn, teach and advocate for education justice and a more inclusive, multiracial democracy that rejects book bans and resists hate.
April 28, 2023
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Digging Deep Into the Social Justice Standards: Action
In this conclusion to a four-part series exploring the four domains of LFJ’s Social Justice Standards, we take a deep dive into action.
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Starting an Activist Club at School
This piece is to accompany the Portfolio Activity for "From Awareness to Action"Tad Thomas of the Positive Youth Foundation offers simple tips for starting an activist club at school.
July 6, 2009
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Protests at the 2020 Olympics
This week, the International Olympic Committee announced that political protests at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games will be regulated. News coverage of the policy creates an opportunity to talk with students about voice, power and what it means to stand against injustice. These resources can help.
- Teach This: Regulating Protest at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
- Discussing #TakeAKnee in Class
- Athletes, Protest and Patriotism
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Teaching “America’s National Crime”
Our new film and viewer’s guide offer educators the tools they need to teach honestly and effectively about lynching and the symbolic power of the noose.
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September Is National Suicide Prevention Month
As National Suicide Prevention Month draws to a close, we want to offer one more reminder: This year, especially, it’s critical to encourage students and colleagues to talk about mental health and reach out for support when it’s needed. We hope these resources help.
- SMS SOS
- Black Minds Matter
- Supporting LGBTQ Students During Social Distancing