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Teaching Tolerance Needs Bloggers |
Are
you interested in becoming more involved in Teaching Tolerance?
We’re
looking for people to write 500-word blogs about equity issues, classroom... |
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LGBT-inclusive Best Practices Now Available |
Though
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students are harassed at twice
the rate of other students, a few purposeful steps can transform... |
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2012 Teaching Tolerance Award Winners |
Every year, Teaching Tolerance hears from teachers who are going the extra mile to support students from diverse racial, ethnic and cultural... |
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New PD Tool Helps Stamp Out Bullying |
Bullying has reached epidemic proportions in U.S. schools. About 1 in 4 students report having been bullied. Tens of thousands of students stay home... |
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Have a Great Anti-Bias Classroom Activity? |
Every teacher has that gem of an
activity that's been perfected over the years—the one that always engages
students and shows them a new perspective... |
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Dent Middle School’s Mix It Up Skits Were a Hit! |
In preparation for Mix It Up at Lunch Day, Dent Middle School students designed t-shirts, performed skits on the morning news show and decorated the... |
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Arrowwood Elementary School Mixes It Up on YouTube! |
As part of Mix it Up at Lunch Day, Arrowwood Elementary School in Highlands Ranch, Colorado provided students with a series of ice-breakers to spice... |
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Mix It Up at Lunch Day Successful Nationwide |
This week, schools across
the nation participated in Mix It Up at Lunch Day with great success. From
colored t-shirts to glow bracelets, each school... |
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“Our [Mix It Up] dinner was terrific!” |
That’s
what Lynn English High School’s Ginny Keenan told us after she hosted her
school’s annual Mix It Up at Lunch Dinner last week.
Like
many... |
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Mix It Up at Lunch Day Is Important |
Mix It Up day is four days away. Take a moment
to catch your breath. And register online, if you haven’t already.
We know how many schools do Mix It... |
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TT Director Discusses Mix It Up on CNN |
Teaching Tolerance Director Maureen Costello appeared yesterday on CNN to discuss national Mix It Up at Lunch Day and to address the American Family... |
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What makes a Mix It Up model school? |
You’re likely feeling
immersed in Mix It Up by now, having browsed our online offerings, read the
blogs and emails, followed updates on Facebook and... |
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TT Director Calls on Schools to Mix It Up |
Maureen Costello, director of Teaching Tolerance, spoke to WSFA of Montgomery, Ala., this morning about the important role programs like Mix It Up at... |
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The Truth about American Muslims Online Now |
Teaching Tolerance proudly endorses “What is the Truth
about American Muslims? Questions and Answers.” This publication, jointly
produced by the... |
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How to Seat Students for Mix It Up |
There are so many ways to
mix up student seating at lunch that it can be difficult to consider them all.
Don’t let this be a stumbling block. The... |
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More Mix It Up Days Ahead |
By now, you’re well under
way to having a great Mix It Up at Lunch Day. It’s a good time to starting
thinking about what happens beyond the Oct. 30... |
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Getting Publicity for Mix It Up |
When it comes to
publicizing your Mix It Up at Lunch campaign, think a little bit old school, a
little bit new school—and then start thinking beyond... |
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Mapmaking and Boundary Crossing for Mix It Up |
Some students—and others—may ask, “Why do we need Mix It Up at Lunch Day?” A good way to lead them to their own answers is to carry out group or... |
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Practice Your Mix It Up “Elevator Speech” |
So people are starting to
ask you, “What’s this Mix It Up at Lunch thing? What is it you’re planning?”
This is a time when you definitely need your “... |
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Are Your Key Players on Board for Mix It Up? |
We’re a little less than two months out from Mix It Up at Lunch Day. What does your core planning group look like? Our most successful schools during... |
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Pocket Guide Makes It Easy to Speak Up |
Teaching Tolerance designed a new guide, Speak Up at School, to give educators the tools to help students and themselves turn from bystanders to... |
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New ELL Best Practices Collection Available Now |
Teaching Tolerance is proud to present a new best practices
guide for engaging limited English proficient (LEP) students and their
families.
“Over... |
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Five Ways to Build Momentum for Mix |
Schools are busy places, with lots of things competing for
attention. Based on input from hundreds of schools during the past decade of
Mix It Up at... |
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Two New Guides Help Schools Combat Bias |
Responding to requests from educators across the country
seeking help in addressing acts of bigotry on campus, Teaching Tolerance
released two guides... |
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Choosing a Mix It Up Theme |
Mix It Up at Lunch is a
theme in itself. Many schools find the Mix It Up idea enough of a hook to carry
the day, as well as follow-up events... |
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What do Kids Get Out of Mix? |
So you’ve decided to Mix
It Up at Lunch—either for the first time or as a returning participant. And you
ask yourself, “Why Mix It Up? What do kids... |
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A Baker’s Dozen of Lessons in Advertising |
Advertising is everywhere. It’s on the TV in our homes, on
the Internet at schools, on billboards as we drive or walk through our communities,
in the... |
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Put the Brakes on the Summer Slide |
The school year is wrapping up, and most students won’t see
the inside of a classroom for months. To kids, this means vacation, but to
teachers it... |
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Undocumented. Unafraid. |
Each
year, about 65,000 undocumented young people graduate from high school only to
find a brick wall between themselves and the future. They are... |
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Announcing the 2012 Mix It Up at Lunch Model Schools |
Teaching Tolerance has named 77
schools—25 more than last year—from across the country as Mix It Up Model
Schools for their exemplary efforts to... |
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Making Black History Month Memorable |
We asked our 25 Teaching Tolerance Advisory Board members what advice they would offer to fellow educators about Black History Month. Each of these... |
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Alabama NAME Conference Seeking Proposals |
The second annual Alabama Region 4 Conference on
Multicultural Education is now seeking conference proposals through Feb.
17. The NAME... |
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Celebrate Women This Black History Month |
Historian Carter G. Woodson established the first Negro
History Week in 1926—a celebration that later became Black History Month.
The Association for... |
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Durham Schools Agree to End Discriminatory Policies |
We were encouraged to see that the school system
in Durham, N.C., last week agreed to end discriminatory practices that prevent
Latino students from... |
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Most States Get an ‘F’ on Civil Rights Education |
The
civil rights movement is one of the defining events of U.S. history, and yet
most states fail badly when it comes to teaching the movement to... |
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52 Recognized as Mix It Up Model Schools |
Teaching Tolerance has named 52 schools from
across the country as Mix It Up Model Schools for their exemplary efforts to
foster respect and... |
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The Obstacles Faced by Children of Color |
It’s widely understood that African-American kids—and other
children of color—get fewer opportunities in life than white kids. But still,
it is... |
