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TT Community Has Great Span, Wants to Help |
Kathy Collier-Paul wanted to help Khadija,
her brown-eyed, black-haired Muslim student, who didn’t feel she fit among the other
primarily blond-... |
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Dr. King Opened Doors for Historic Presidency |
A couple years ago, my then 3-year-old daughter announced her
intentions to draw a picture for President Barack Obama.
“Because he’s my brother,” she... |
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Beware the Google App Designed for Laughs |
Social media platforms have great potential to build community, support just causes and call attention to inequity. They can also be used to... |
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The Road to Disaster Recovery |
Editor’s Note: Teaching
Tolerance collaborated with The Learning Network and The New York Times for news
accounts and ideas for lessons and... |
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Don’t Let Malala Yousafzai’s Voice Be Silenced |
Few of us really ever have to answer the question, “What am
I willing to risk my life for.”
Malala Yousafzai, 11, did answer.
She decided to risk... |
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Gotcha Day Celebrates Becoming a Family |
Each March 7, Stephanie and her husband John will invite immediate family members to the house to celebrate their son, Alexander, now 3. And every... |
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Advice for First-Year Teachers |
Educators are natural cheerleaders, fierce protectors, and they rally when needed. That’s why we turned to the Teaching Tolerance community of... |
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Can Connected Educator Tackle Technology Equity? |
It’s
undeniable. Technology is in the classroom in new and instructive ways. Flipped
classrooms and interactive instruction videos created by... |
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What Sally Ride and Amelia Earhart Taught Us |
This week reminded us of two pioneering
women in aviation. The nation mourned the death of Sally Ride, the first
American woman in space. At the same... |
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Inspiration Knows No Gender |
When the Dallas Texas Public Schools District decided
to show its fifth-graders Red Tails,
an action-adventure film based on the Tuskegee pilots... |
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Students Protest Alabama’s Immigration Law |
For more than 20 years, Teaching Tolerance, based in
Montgomery, Ala., has worked to help educators embrace the diverse classroom.
We strive toward... |
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Montgomery Mixes It Up with Bingo |
It was more than just a change of scenery for Cole
Archer. Today, he moved from his usual center lunch table to the front of the
lunchroom to sit... |
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Laconia Students Mix It Up! |
Raige Hollis always liked the idea of talking to classmates. In fact, he says he's "friends with everybody."
So when his high school announced plans... |
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A Modern Day Freedom Ride for Education Justice |
Rose Mary Gilliam just
wants to speak her peace and find enlightenment.
The 18-year-old New Orleans resident has been a volunteer in
the public... |
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‘Princess Boys’ and Preempting Stereotypes |
As part of our bedtime routine, I was excited to share a new
book with my 4-year-old daughter. My
Princess Boy by Cheryl Kilodavis would be our story... |
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'It Could Be a Wonderful World' |
As part of the kick-off to the Southern Poverty Law Center's 40th anniversary festivities, second grade students from Notre Dame Elementary in... |
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What Not to Teach Third Graders |
This news story out of Duluth, Ga. yesterday caught our attention. It spotlights a homework assignment given to third-graders at a Gwinnett County... |
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Friend and Activist Nick LaTour Dies |
Singer, actor and activist Nick LaTour died Monday.
To many children in Alabama and across the country, LaTour was a
consummate storyteller who was... |
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Getting More Black Men into the Classroom |
Walter Sherrill made chemistry cool. He was the sort of
refined man who seemed to glide across a room. His voice never rose above a
quiet tone, and... |
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Looking Back at Civil Rights—and Looking Ahead |
Like the more than 22,000 students who visit the Civil
Rights Memorial Center each year, Brittney Johnson loved the fountain.
The 10-year-old... |
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Plan to Grade Parents Flunks Out |
Florida representative Kelli Stargel has proposed a bill
requiring the state’s teachers to grade parents of children aged kindergarten
to third grade... |
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Showing Our Best on MLK Day |
In classrooms all over the country, posters hang on walls
bearing the face of Martin Luther King, Jr. Libraries put out displays of books
about his... |
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The Top 5 Diversity Stories of 2010 |
This is a
busy week at most schools, with teachers and students returning from the
holidays. But before everyone gets focused on what lies ahead, let... |
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Sending ‘That’s so gay’ on Vacation – Permanently |
In the fourth grade, my teacher, Mrs. King, designed an
exercise that banned “good” as an adjective from the classroom.
No longer could we respond... |
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Balancing the Holidays in Your Classroom |
Each year at this time, teachers are faced with a dilemma:
How to balance the holidays to create the most inclusive environment?
As Hanukkah comes... |
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Lasting Lessons from the Montgomery Bus Boycott |
The time had come.
It was Dec. 1, 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to
give up her seat to a white passenger on the Montgomery public bus. This act led... |
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Lessons Show Plight of Immigrants Who Feed Us |
Alma
wanted to put milk in her children’s bottles. In her native Mexico, she could
only afford to fill them with coffee. Like many recent immigrants... |
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Do You Teach About Social Justice? Share With Us! |
For Judy Dodge Cummings, social justice teaching
takes students through the lyrics of American folk songs. She
uses antique tunes such as Hard Times... |
