It’s that time of year again: a bit of a summer break and then onto planning for next year! Maybe you’ve been thinking about ways to revamp your curriculum or enhance student engagement. Either way, here are three things you can do now to help get next year off to a great start—and keep it going.
Subscribe to Teaching Tolerance Magazine
Free to educators, Teaching Tolerance is published three times a year—print editions in the fall and spring and an online-only edition in the summer—and offers the latest in social justice and anti-bias education. Rich with feature stories, lesson ideas, book and film recommendations and more, each magazine offers a plethora of resources you can translate into your practice. If you haven’t already, subscribe now, and then you’ll get each Fall and Spring issue delivered directly to your mailbox. Meanwhile, check out the Summer 2015 issue, which features a video feature on youth activism, a spoken-word Story Corner and a printable poster to help you support students who don’t conform to society’s binary gender norms.
Plan With Perspectives for a Diverse America
Not your average curriculum, Perspectives for a Diverse America is a full K-12, literacy-based, anti-bias curriculum built on backward planning principles—and the notion that you can teach social emotional skills, use content relevant to your students’ experiences and maintain rigor simultaneously. The searchable Perspectives anthology currently houses nearly 300 diverse readings and is steadily growing. It also contains over 150 tasks and strategies that you can use to customize learning plans that speak to the students in your classroom. Perspectives can help you rethink your approach to social justice education and, like all other TT materials, it’s completely free. All you have to do is sign up!
Use Civil Rights Done Right: A Tool for Teaching the Movement
As detailed in our report Teaching the Movement 2014: The State of Civil Rights Education in the United States, most states’ standards for teaching about civil rights history are woefully inadequate. We know you strive to do great work on this front in your classroom, though. That’s why we created Civil Rights Done Right, a tool organized into five steps for curriculum improvement. Each step identifies specific suggestions and procedures for building robust, meaningful lessons that cultivate a deeper understanding of civil rights history. The tool is an editable PDF so your revamped lessons can be downloaded, printed and shared—year round.
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