Jennifer Holladay is a former director of Teaching Tolerance.
Jennifer Holladay
Pages authored by Jennifer Holladay
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| Refection Activity: Identity | Identity can be defined as the “the collective aspect of the set of characteristics by which a thing or person is definitively recognized or known,”... |
| On Racism and White Privilege | Excerpted from White Anti-Racist Activism: A Personal Roadmap by Jennifer R. Holladay, M.S. (Crandall, Dostie & Douglass Books, Inc., 2000) On... |
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| Mixing It Up with Purpose | The basketball players sit in a corner of the cafeteria. The rockers hang out near the stage. The ditchers and smokers congregate near the school... |
| Cyberbullying | Phoebe Prince is loved by her peers. At least, now she is. Hundreds of people have lent their voices to support her on Facebook. Taylor Gosselin... |
| A New Model for Mix It Up | The girls at the last table in the middle school cafeteria weren’t talking. Two were recent immigrants from Somalia. Two were Hmong students in the... |
| Our Journey to Kindergarten | The butcher-paper display outside the classroom was as tall as me and twice as wide, a sweeping visual reminder of one of the school’s goals: Move 10... |
| Teaching in the Downturn | Few of today's teachers can remember an economic situation quite like the one we now face. To find analogies for the collapse of the housing bubble... |
| Hesitation and Hope | There is a story in this issue of Teaching Tolerance we were hesitant to publish — a story about a social justice movement being built by... |
| Survey Says? | "Envision the year 2020. What issues do you think will present the greatest challenges to our schools then?" the moderator asked. For the teachers... |
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| Discipline That Works | Earlier this month, hundreds of educators, parents and students gathered at the Educating Youth of Color Summit in Colorado Springs, Colo. That... |
| Want To Stop Bullies? Deal With The Differences | November 19, 2009, was “Kick a Jew Day” at Naples (Fla.) Middle School. School officials found out about the event only after a child informed... |
| ‘Usually Offensive’ | red·skin \ˈred-ˌskin\(noun) usually offensive : American IndianNote the “usually offensive” — a warning from one of the more neutral arbitrators of... |
| All About Hair | When my daughter was three, she showed up at preschool without her normal braids or twists, her glorious afro present for all to see and celebrate.... |
| Acknowledging the Bigotry Within | A couple of nights ago, I took my daughter to Chuck-E-Cheese, a tradition of ours when her other mother is out of town. We play skee-ball to win long... |
| “Your Child Will Be Placed in Level ...” | During the fourth week of school, the form came home, stuffed into my daughter’s backpack: Your student scored a XX on his/her DIBELS literacy test... |
| Gender in the Fast Lane | “Is that for a boy or a girl?” This is the question posed to thousands of parents and guardians as they sweep through drive-throughs each day,... |
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| Sexism in the Civil Rights Movement: A Discussion Guide | Teaching about the Civil Rights Movement used to be easy. These days, however, when educators assign research projects about the struggle to end U.S... |
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| The Three Billy Goats Gracious | Once upon a time there were three billy goats who were to go up to the hillside to eat, and the name of all three was "Gracious." On the way up was a... |