School Climate

Boundary Crossing: Activity

Have we really learned how to break down barriers? This lesson plan is excerpted from the 2007-2008 Mix It Up Planner. Learn more about national Mix It Up at Lunch Day . ...
Identity Posters: Activity Exchange

Posters put a stop to teasing as students learn more about each other. In school, some names invoke teasing. To start our year off right and to stop teasing before it begins, I have ...
Using 'Objects' to Object to Objectification: Activity Exchange

Math equations add up to help teach tolerance My high school students and I spent a lot of time exploring functions in our pre-calculus and algebra classes. Indeed, the function ...
Stay in the Mix ...With Summer Service!: Activity

With summer approaching, it's time to figure out ways to keep mixing it up, even after the school year ends! Who: Nonprofit organizations -- and students -- throughout the ...
Peer Exclusion: Activity

This web-exclusive curriculum is proven to counteract gender bullying in the early grades. This is a part of Gender Doesn't Limit You! , also available as a PDF . Note: ...
Allies: A Discussion Activity: Activity

Educator and author Mara Sapon-Shevin offers strategies and ideas to help students become allies -- people who stand with or for others. After leading students in a discussion about ...
Bullying: Tips for Students: Activity

This checklist provides suggestions for what kids can do when bullying occurs – written for students being bullied, students who witness bullying and the bullies themselves. If you ...
Anonymous Writing Partners: Activity Exchange

Anonymous journaling helps portray the reality of bullying Signs of bullying are sometimes difficult for teachers to catch -- someone "accidentally" tripping someone in the ...
Readers' Theater: Activity Exchange

Readers theater group helps spread message about bullying As a junior high counselor with a background in theater, I always am searching for new ways to incorporate ...
Defining Multicultural Terminology: Activity Exchange

As a veteran teacher of English, literature and history, I have employed many different lessons to encourage my students to seek understanding of other cultures. To this end, I ...
'I Am Special': Activity Exchange

I begin my lesson by telling students that we're going to have a guessing game with only two hints. They are to guess what subject we're going to be discussing by first listening to two stories. The ...
Reflection: What’s Your FRAME?: Activity

This activity encourages students to reflect on their individual cultures and histories, their backgrounds, the things they grew up with (some that may have been in their control and others that they had no ...
Social Boundaries Activity: Map It Out: Activity

Teachers and students draw maps showing where they think social divisions exist at school, and compare views of the community as a whole. Materials Art supplies ...
Stay in the Mix for Valentine's Day: Activity

Celebrate Valentine's legacy of love and resistance! Did you know ... The origins of the Valentine's Day holiday are rooted in resisting injustice. Most stories ...
Stay in the Mix with Music!: Activity

Explore how music divides - and unites. Who: All people who love music What: Music In Our Schools Month When: All month long Websites: Music for All ...
Stay in the Mix During National Poetry Month!: Activity

How to use the written word to highlight, and counteract, social boundaries. Who: Everyone who loves words What: The free expression of poetry to communicate the power of ...
Anti-Racism Activity: The Sneetches: Lesson

In this early grades activity, students learn about unfair practices in a simulation exercise and then create plans to stand up against discrimination. Perspective Before ...
What Do Halloween Costumes Say?: Lesson

This activity, adaptable across grades, is designed to help students look critically at the Halloween costumes marketed to them. In schools where Halloween is observed, the activity can be used to develop ...
Papalotzin y las monarcas: Discussion Questions: Activity

Discussion questions for Papalotzin and the Monarchs / Papalotzin y las monarcas . Discussion Questions How do you think the Great North felt about the Great South ...
Why Frogs and Snakes Never Play Together: Lesson

This Pourquoi of Prejudice is used to promote tolerance in the classroom. The Plot A chance meeting of a family of frogs and a family of snakes in the woods one day ...
Classroom Community Building: Activity

Activities for all grades to build community in your class this year. Early Grades • At Kensington Avenue School in Springfield, Mass., teachers build community every day ...
Getting To Know Each Other (Lunch Day Mixer): Activity

The game centers on a question: "Could you be friends with someone who. . . ?" The book Getting to Know Ruben Plotnick (Flashlight Press, ISBN# 0972922555, $15.95), by ...
Playing the Bully Card: Activity Exchange

Teaching students how to stand up to bullying behavior, particularly when that means asking the teacher or another adult to intervene, can be a challenge. Sometimes, students lack ...
The Philosopher's Stone: Activity Exchange

In my classroom, we engage in an activity that allows students to voice their ever-growing opinions about fairness and justice in a manner that not only promotes writing and oral skills but also fosters the ...
What Can We Learn from a Box of Crayons?: Activity Exchange

Central elementary, a school in transition with an increasingly diverse student body, decided to focus this school year on diversity. I wanted to help the 2nd- and 3rd-graders ...
Confronting the -isms: Activity Exchange

Social justice lesson Teaching social justice requires helping students confront their personal biases because studies show that tolerance training can backfire if not accompanied ...
Friendship Without Barriers: Lesson

Friendship Without Barriers is excerpted from the teaching kit "Rhinos and Raspberries: Tolerance Tales for the Early Grades," a literature-based teaching kit. Objectives ...
Gender Stereotyping: Activity Exchange

As a school counselor on a K-8 campus, I prepare classroom guidance lessons for all students on topics of tolerance. At the beginning of a new school year, I like to introduce students to the adults on campus. ...
Totally Us: Activity

Totally Us is a classroom activity developed from Totally Joe . Objectives Students will develop name biographies together in groups of four Students will see that ...
Cooperative Comics: Activity

Comic books are visual literature. This simple cooperative group activity allows students to identify confrontational issues within their own school and then imagine solutions. ...

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