ELL / ESL

23 May 2013 In this lesson, students consider actions we can take to promote respect and ensure equality for all people living in the ...

21 May 2013 In this lesson, students consider how the nation’s changing demographic profile relates, if at all, to social justice and ...

7 May 2013 This toolkit accompanies the article “When Bad Things Happen,” and provides professional-development resources to support ...

7 May 2013 This toolkit accompanies the article “Uncommon Ground,” and provides a classroom activity to celebrate diversity and build ...

7 May 2013 This toolkit accompanies the story corner “Michael,” and provides classroom resources for making student journals, as well ...

14 May 2013 This toolkit accompanies the article “Set in Stone,” and provides classroom activity ideas to bring monuments to life and ...

7 May 2013 This toolkit accompanies the article “Serving Up Justice at School,” and provides a classroom activity that engages students ...

7 May 2013 This toolkit accompanies the article “Out at Last,” and provides professional-development resources to support LGBT educators, ...

7 May 2013 This toolkit accompanies the article “I Am Asian American,” and provides professional-development resources to help teachers ...

7 May 2013 Gender-fluid young people navigate a variety of gender-specific spaces throughout their day at school. From seating charts based on gender to dress codes and roles in ...

7 May 2013 This toolkit accompanies the Summer 2013 article “Fostering Allies,” and provides professional-development support to ...

10 April 2013 This is the fourth lesson of the series “ Dealing with Dilemmas: Upstanders, Bystanders and Whistle-Blowers ,” which is ...

26 March 2013 The purpose of these lessons is to help students think about how to resolve difficult ethical decisions related to ...

26 March 2013 This is the third lesson of the series “ Dealing with Dilemmas: Upstanders, Bystanders and Whistle-Blowers ,” which is ...

22 March 2013 This is the second lesson of the series “ Dealing with Dilemmas: Upstanders, Bystanders and Whistle-Blowers .” ...

20 March 2013 This is the first lesson of the series “ Dealing with Dilemmas: Upstanders, Bystanders and Whistle-Blowers ,” ...

21 January 2013 Educators have long used music to inspire, engage and teach their students. Whether by tapping into popular culture or reaching back through history, songs and ...

This final lesson of the series, I See You, You See Me: Body Image and Social Justice , which helps students think about their bodies and body image as related to broader issues of social justice and ...

This is the third lesson of the series, I See You, You See Me: Body Image and Social Justice , designed to help students think about their bodies and body image as related to broader issues of social ...

This series help students think about their bodies and body images in a social justice context. Each lesson looks at a different aspect of the relationship children have with their bodies. The series helps ...

This is the second lesson of the series, I See You, You See Me: Body Image and Social Justice , which helps students think about their bodies and body image as related to broader issues of social justice ...

This is the first lesson of the series, I See You, You See Me: Body Image and Social Justice , which helps students think about their bodies and body image as related to broader issues of social justice and ...

You’ve seen the Need to Know election special, “ America by the Numbers ,” which focuses on the small Georgia town of Clarkston. Like many communities across the nation, Clarkston is changing. As little as ...

Especially during election season, American politicians like to accuse each other of backing ideas and policies that are “outside the mainstream.” But what really characterizes that mainstream? And does it ...

“Whites should only be afraid of becoming a minority if it’s within the old definition of what a minority means—marginalized, left out, disenfranchised. The new American mainstream is inclusive. Everybody is ...

In my Latino/Latina literature class, my primary intent is to help my students see the inequities created in our society by pervasive racism and discrimination. This project asks that the students watch two hours of television, focusing only on ...

This Teaching Tolerance story underscores the value of diversity within all of the communities we are part of—our cities and towns, neighborhoods, schools and groups of friends and acquaintances. Facebook might be another community to which you ...

This is the thirteenth lesson in the Reading Ads with a Social Justice Lens series.   This final lesson gives students a chance to reflect on what they have learned. Drama offers a wonderful way for ...

This is the twelfth lesson in the Reading Ads with a Social Justice Lens series.   As children learn about justice and injustice, and become increasingly aware of stereotypes and bias in the world ...

This is the eleventh lesson in the Reading Ads with a Social Justice Lens series.   Children need empowerment strategies for what to do when faced with biased messages. In other words, they need to ...