Family Engagement
Most teachers have a technique or two in their back-to-school tool kits for introducing themselves to families and taking those first steps to engage parents and other caregivers in the classroom and the student learning process. And yet, family engagement is a year-long process.
Family Ties and Fabric Tales
Exploring family roots and immigration.
Family Ties and Fabric Tales for Middle and Upper Grades
Simple adjustments for older students.
Farmworkers and the Union Handout (also en Español)
Draw from our classroom discussion to complete the worksheet below.
Farmworkers and the Union: A Lesson from Viva La Causa
Students will understand the organizational and agenda issues common among labor unions.
Fear in the Eyes
Students with anxiety disorders wonder, "Will I ever fit in?"
Fighting Hunger
This lesson encourages students to investigate domestic hunger in the United States as well as in their own communities and offers resources to support youth in the fight against hunger.
Final Project Outline
Sarah Arnold satisfied state standards and promoted tolerance by creating a unit on 'hidden homophobia.' To help teachers build a curriculum for similar projects, we've reprinted her final project guidelines below.
First Person
First Person: Liberty to Learn
During the 25th anniversary celebration in 1890 of the founding of Vassar College — one of the first women’s colleges in the United States — George W. Curtis challenged the belief that higher education would cause women to abandon their "natural sphere" of domestic duties.
First Person: The Right to Ride
Read about Elizabeth Jennings, who was forcibly removed from a segregated trolley car in New York City in 1854.
Flag Day
The American flag illustrates individuality in this lesson
Flags for Peace
This activity can help students make a personal connection to a seemingly abstract theme at the beginning of a lesson or as a culminating activity.
Freedom Flag
Activity to help young students learn the meaning of "freedom."
Freedom in Times of War and Conflict
Activity to help Upper Grades learn more about freedom.
Freedom's Main Line
Learn how activists in Louisville, Kentucky successfully campaigned against segregated streetcars in this excerpt from the Teaching Tolerance curriculum kit "A Place at the Table."
Friendship Pizza
Identifying ways to promote acceptance and friendship
Friendship Without Barriers
This lesson is excerpted from the teaching kit "Rhinos and Raspberries: Tolerance Tales for the Early Grades," a literature-based teaching kit for grades preK-6.
From Chaos to Community
Teacher uses student suggestions to create ideal classroom environment.
From Civil Rights to Human Rights
When 20-year old Julian Bond and 75 of his fellow students arrived for lunch in Atlanta's City Hall cafeteria on March 15, 1960, they knew they had come for more than a meal.
Gender Separate Dialogue Groups
How do girls and boys see themselves? How do they think they’re seen by others? What do gender stereotypes teach kids about who they’re supposed to be?
Gender Shouldn't Limit You!
What are the political gender biases among young students? Would they elect a girl president?
Gender Stereotyping
Activity exchange for grades 7-9 to explore gender stereotyping in career fields.
Gendered Beliefs
Sometimes we say something to another person that we believe is true because of their gender.
Getting To Know Each Other
The game centers on a question: "Could you be friends with someone who. . . ?"
Girls Can Be Plumbers?
This activity helps early-grade students begin to think about gender roles, stereotypes and career choices.
Global Citizenry
"The world is flat," so proclaimed award-winning journalist Thomas Friedman in his best-selling book examining the forces that have given rise to globalism. Fundamentally, Friedman's book asks, "Has the world gotten too small and too fast for human beings and their political systems to adjust in a stable manner?"
Going to Bat for Girls
In celebration of Title IX's 30th anniversary, we highlight one family's struggle to realize the promise of equality.
Graça Machel
"We Africans may be impoverished, but we are not poor. ... We can learn things from others, but we also have a lot to offer the world."
Growing Up with Abriendo Puertas
It's hard to sit and just write the story of your life, when you're only 19 and already there are a lot of memories making a never-ending story. To make it short and to the point I'll just write about one episode that changed my entire life.