School Culture

Speaking Kindness in Democratic Classrooms: Lesson

Students will develop a framework for speaking with kindness and respect toward each other. Framework For educators who hope to create a democratic classroom, one of the ...
Place as a Mirror of Self and Community: Lesson

Students will understand difference and community by exploring a special place in their lives. Framework We all come from somewhere. Place is prominent in all of our ...
In-Group Favoritism: Lesson

This activity looks at the way in-group favoritism hurts instead of heals the conflicts we might have with each other. Objectives Students will understand and be able to ...
Conflict Resolution and Peace: Activity

Teachers can use these quotes from famous individuals to facilitate student reflection on the importance of conflict resolution. Objectives Students will read and interpret ...
Checking on Stereotypes: Activity

Always guard against the tendency to believe that everyone within a given identity group believes the same way. Objectives Students will identify stereotypes they've ...
Communication – The Total Impact of Your Message: Lesson

Effective conflict resolution models explore the ways others communicate from their cultural norms. 7% are the words we speak 38% are our tone, volume, inflection and intonation ...
Maintaining Our Brand: Activity Exchange

Students learn about advertising and find common ground with their peers by coming together to create a "brand" for themselves. Personal loyalty in 21st Century America ...
How Do We Get Along?: Activity Exchange

A lesson that encourages students to examine what it means to relate to others Research illustrates that young people who have difficulty developing relationships are more likely to ...
Flags for Peace: Activity Exchange

This activity can help students make a personal connection to a seemingly abstract theme at the beginning of a lesson or as a culminating activity. When a white supremacist group ...
Friendship Pizza: Activity Exchange

Identifying ways to promote acceptance and friendship When my kindergarteners became involved in a cycle of put-downs and tattling, I designed a lesson to assist them in ...
Dinner for Two: Activity Exchange

At the beginning of each term, in junior- and senior-level courses, I have my students get to know each other. At the beginning of each term, in junior- and senior-level courses, I ...
CDs: Creating Direction: Activity Exchange

What if students had to articulate a "direction" or belief about prejudice through text and images? My classes had been discussing prejudice in history and in literature ...
Me And We: We are All Similar and Different: Lesson

In this activity, students explore the ways we are all similar and different. This activity is useful for planning Mix It Up at Lunch Day or when building intergroup ...
Puppets and Tolerance: Activity Exchange

Blending literature and puppetry is an excellent medium to provide a safe and non-threatening environment for children to explore many life issues. Abby's eyes widen in fear ...
An Exercise in Kindness: Activity Exchange

Substitute teachers face intolerance nearly every day. Substitute teachers face intolerance nearly every day. A three-week 3rd-grade assignment presented me with a unique ...
Music and Lyrics: Activity Exchange

A lyric-based learning program that helps students analyze songs on their own Rather than focusing on censorship of lyrics, a lyric-based learning program encourages students to ...
My Multicultural Self: Lesson

In today's multicultural schools and classrooms, resolving conflict means being culturally aware. Framework Before endeavoring to develop cultural knowledge and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...

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