Beyond the Golden Rule: A Parent’s Guide to Preventing and Responding to Prejudice offers practical advice about the challenges and rewards of parenting in today's diverse world. Psychologists, educators and parenting experts offer practical, age-appropriate advice to help you integrate lessons of respect and tolerance in day-to-day activities.
These tools lay the groundwork for productive, reasoned and lively discussions on a variety of topics. They also will give students “training wheels” for learning how to have reasoned arguments outside the classroom.
Civil Discourse in the Classroom—based on lessons tested in diverse classrooms across the United States and proven effective with a wide range of students and topics—will introduce educators to bas
The Augusta Films documentary The Loving Story recounts an important and often-overlooked
element of the struggle to end racial segregation in the United States. Mildred
and Richard Loving, married in 1958, were arrested because he was white and she
was part African-American and part Native American. In Virginia, where they
lived, their marriage was illegal. Their desire to live together as husband and
wife in their home state led to a Supreme Court ruling that declared state laws
that prohibited inter-racial marriage unconstitutional.
In 2010, the Southern Poverty Law Center interviewed 150 immigrant women who left Latin American nations in search of a better life in the United States. Most of them landed in physically crippling, low-paying jobs that make our lives easier but have rendered them voiceless and invisible.
The new documentary Prom Night in Mississippi
takes us to Charleston, Miss. - where high school students held their first
racially integrated prom. Teaching Tolerance has teamed up with
director-producer Paul Saltzman and HBO to create a teacher's guide to help you
use the film in the classroom.
Watching the film is a powerful learning experience
in and of itself.
Teaching Tolerance is proud to present this
teacher’s guide designed to support and supplement the HBO documentary Sergio.
The film chronicles the extraordinary life and tragic death of United Nations
diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello. Vieira de Mello was a Brazilian humanitarian
who served the UN for more than thirty years in a variety of roles all around
the world. He was killed in a hotel bombing in Iraq in 2003.
Teaching Tolerance is proud to present this
teacher’s guide designed to support and supplement the HBO documentary Sergio.
The film chronicles the extraordinary life and tragic death of
The Southern Poverty Law Center gathered hundreds of stories of everyday bigotry from people across the United States. They told their stories through e-mail, personal interviews and at roundtable discussions in four cities. People spoke about encounters in stores and restaurants, on streets and in schools. No matter the location or relationship, the stories echo each other.
The National Assessment of Educational Progress—commonly called “The Nation’s Report Card”—tells a dismal story: Only 2% of high school seniors in 2010 could answer a simple question about the U.S.
Taking
place on April 3, 1968, “The Mountaintop” by Katori Hall is a
gripping reimagining of events the night before the assassination of civil
rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Raising Awareness of Difference, Power and
Discrimination
Language is a paradoxical tool – we use it
consciously to shape our thoughts and experiences, yet patterns and structures
in the language itself can shape us in return.
