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The GO GIRLS! project inspires young women to challenge the media's promotion of unhealthy messages about beauty.
'And Maybe I Can Change That Too'
A high school teacher helps his students challenge their own racist beliefs.
'I Am Special'
Discussing differences with early-grades children
'Mathematics for Our Past'
Our students come from upper-middle-class homes and live in a sheltered suburban community with little exposure to anyone significantly different than themselves. Teaching tolerance is difficult when they have few experiences with diversity. This project introduces students to a diverse group of people who experienced intolerance.
'Si Se Puede!'
In response to legislation that would have criminalized immigrants, thousands of high school students from across the country walked out of their classrooms and into history.
'The Capacity for Connection'
In this special Q & A, educators Louise Derman-Sparks and Patricia G. Ramsey, authors of the book, What If All the Kids are White?, provide early grades educators with practical ideas on preparing white students for a multicultural world.
'The Rights of Women'
An editorial by Frederick Douglass on equality for women.
'Unbranding' to Encourage an Appreciation of Diversity
Lesson on 'unbranding' guides students toward diversity appreciation
'You Said Sappho's A She!'
An educator uses poetry to challenge homophobia.
10 Tips for Starting a World Religions Curriculum
How to develop a world religions curriculum with inclusion and sensitivity.
5 Steps To Safer Schools
How can educators and schools create learning environments free of anti-gay discrimination?
A Bullying Quiz
Understand how evidence regarding behavioral patterns might challenge personal beliefs and assumptions about social behavior
A Bullying Survey
Teaching Tolerance offers a bullying survey for early grades and a bullying quiz for middle and upper grades, designed to increase awareness about and decrease instances of bullying.
A Commitment to Nonviolence: The Leadership of John Lewis
Use this excerpt from Lewis's Walking with the Wind to explore the Civil Rights Movement.
A Contract on Bullying
A Minnesota teacher challenges her students to face up to verbal and physical harassment.
A Historical Primer On Economic (In)Equality
Classroom experiences that critically investigate the causes and meaning of poverty in our own nation offer students tools for change, and new ways to interpret the world around them.
A Journal Can Be Anything
Too many educators believe the only way to journal is with the written word. Yes, we want our students to write — to increase their power through literacy. But why can't they use multiple intelligences to prompt the written word?
A Living History
Students can make a pledge to help end continued racism.
A Mother's Advice
First person account from a Congressman and his mother.
A Nation of Immigrants?
In his groundbreaking March 2008 speech on race, Barack Obama described the white experience in America as "the immigrant experience." But what does that mean? In this lesson, students will take a close look at their own textbooks to see how the immigrant experience (white and non-white) is treated.
A New Set of Rules
Create a classroom constitution as the school year kicks off.
A Question of Class
A media journal project exposes classism in contemporary politics.
A Rose for Charlie
Charlie Howard had to develop a tough shell to get through high school as a gay teen in the 1970s. But it didn't save him from the ultimate act of hate.
A Second Revolution
Learn about the "second Bill of Rights" and the "second Reconstruction" as well as the "second American Revolution."
A Tale of Two Schools
In the early 1900s, Mexican Americans, or Chicanos, in California and the Southwest were excluded from "Whites Only" theaters, parks, swimming pools, restaurants, and even schools. Immigrants from Mexico waged many battles against such discriminatory treatment, often risking their jobs in fields and factories and enduring threats of deportation. In 1945, one couple in California won a significant victory in their struggle to secure the best education for thousands of Chicano children.
A Timeline for Change
Timeline activity helps foster a spirit of activism
A Town, a Teacher and a Wartime Tragedy
As we commemorate the 60th anniversary of Pearl Harbor this December, it is important to remember how the defense of freedom abroad during World War II eroded freedom at home for Americans of Japanese descent.
Abriendo Puertas en la Frontera
Opening Doors on the Border (in Spanish)
Activities for By Virtue of Being Human
As a class, develop a working definition of human rights.