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  Saving the Native Son: Empowerment Strategies for Young Black Males
Saving the Native Son: Empowerment Strategies for Young Black Males ($19.95) is a revised edi ...
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  Multicultural Counseling in Schools: A Synergetic Approach
Guidance counselors who seek to address the needs of ethnic minority students will appreciate the ec ...
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  Role Play Peacegames
Inexpensive, durable and eminently practical, Role Play Peacegames ($8.95 each) sharpen stude ...
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  Different and the Same
Different and the Same is a comprehensive educational program consisting of nine short video ...
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  In My Own Voice
In My Own Voice ($79.95) introduces adolescent CD-ROM users to contemporary multicultural Ame ...
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  Holocaust
The study of the Holocaust necessarily leads students through more than history, politics or psychol ...
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  Us and Them
The 128-page textbook from The Shadow of Hate teaching kit is now available in hardback. U ...
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  Teaching Holocaust Studies With the Internet
Teaching Holocaust Studies With the Internet ($29.95) ensures the careful handling of online ...
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  We Are Witnesses
The sobering content of We Are Witnesses ($15.95) is taken from the diaries of five teenagers ...
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  From the Mango Tree and Other Folktales from Nepal
"Garland of gold to the listener, garland of flowers to the teller" is the way Nepalese storytellers ...
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  The Trickster and the Troll
What do you get if you cross a Scandinavian folktale with a Lakota legend? You may get something as ...
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  The Sign Language Literature Series
When you think "multicultural," do you include deaf culture, too? The Sign Language Literature Se ...
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  One Grain of Rice
A strong young girl proves that no one needs to go hungry in One Grain of Rice ($19.95), adap ...
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  Science Across Cultures
With Science Across Cultures ($10), students will have the chance to explore the everyday tec ...
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  Telling Our Stories: Women in Science
Personal stories, family photo albums, exciting experiments and an enormous database of female scien ...
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  Open Minds to Equality: A Sourcebook of Learning Activities to Affirm Diversity and Promote Equity
Open Minds to Equality: A Sourcebook of Learning Activities to Affirm Diversity and Promote Equit ...
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  Many Voices, Many Dreams
Many Voices, Many Dreams is a compelling video that advocates multicultural education as an a ...
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  The Uprooted: Refugees and the United States
What distinguishes a refugee from an immigrant? The answer can be found in the multidisciplinary tea ...
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  Eerdmans' Handbook to the World's Religions
From ancient religions to present-day New Age philosophies, Eerdmans' Handbook to the World's Rel ...
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  The Conspiracy of the Secret Nine
In 1898, an Irish American boy and an African American boy in Wilmington, N.C., were best buddies un ...
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  Middle Passage
Sixty-four solemn black-and-white drawings depict one of history's most horrific ordeals: the journe ...
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  Star of Fear, Star of Hope
Nine-year-old Helen does not understand why her friend Lydia must wear a yellow star on her clothes. ...
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  Speak Now Against the Day
The text Speak Now Against the Day ($18.95) helps students better understand the Southern civ ...
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  De Colores
De Colores ($16.99) is a collection of 27 Latin American folk songs for children. The title s ...
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  Be A Friend
Be A Friend ($19.95) tells the story of African American music through songs, background info ...
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  Teaching Peace
The 12 motivating songs on Teaching Peace (CD, $15; cassette, $10) can be used to interject p ...
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  Every Moment!
If you use songs and music as a way to build unity in your classroom, take a listen to Every Mome ...
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  "Teacher, they called me a ---!" and The Prejudice Book
Updated editions of two books, "Teacher, they called me a ---!" ($12.50) and The Prejudice ...
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  The Hate Crime
For Zack, a high school sophomore, being Jewish has never been a big deal -- until someone paints an ...
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  Dounia
In Dounia ($13.95), a little girl travels to a different country to meet her adoptive parents ...
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  Shelter Folks
Shame, loneliness and frustration consume 9-year-old Joelle after her family is forced to move to a ...
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  Calling the Doves and Two Mrs. Gibsons
Two authors remember their childhoods and share the unique ways that culture shaped their lives in t ...
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  Through Our Eyes
"Money may make the world go round, but family keeps you rooted while it's spinning," says 19-year-o ...
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  HiP Magazine
HiP Magazine is designed for "kool deaf and hard-of-hearing kids and their pals." Each 11-by- ...
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  Taíno
An island paradise is the setting for Taíno, a creative video-and-activity book set ($35.98) ...
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  The Culture Connection Newsletter
Language, games, arts and crafts, food, science, geography and animals are just some of the topics w ...
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  Black Teachers on Teaching
Twenty-one Black educators, born between 1905 and 1973, tell their story of school life in Michele F ...
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  Chicano! The History of the Civil Rights Movement
Chicano! The History of the Civil Rights Movement is a scholarly multimedia documentation of ...
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  Sweet Words So Brave: The Story of African American Literature
Sweet Words So Brave: The Story of African American Literature ($24.95) chronicles more than ...
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  Milk and Honey: A Year of Jewish Holidays
Charming folk art evokes the joy and warmth of seven Jewish holidays in the book Milk and Honey: ...
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  Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message
Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message ($14.95) re-creates a Native tradition ...
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  Ramadan
In the book Ramadan ($15.95), young Hakeem's family and friends observe the ninth month of th ...
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  Bebop-A-Do-Walk
Martha, Emi and her father take a long Bebop-A-Do-Walk ($15) from New York's Chinatown to Cen ...
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  The New Adventures of Mother Goose: Gentle Rhymes for Happy Times
Traditional nursery rhymes transformed to upbeat, fearless poetry will keep little people giggling a ...
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  This Is Our House
In the book This Is Our House ($15.99), George does not allow girls, twins, short people or c ...
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  The Old Man and His Door
Similarities in the words for "pork" and "door" in Spanish, "puerco" a ...
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  Black Women of the Old West and Black Frontiers: A History of African American Heroes in the Old West
Black Women of the Old West ($18) and Black Frontiers: A History of African American Heroe ...
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  Red-Tail Angels: The Story of the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II
Red-Tail Angels: The Story of the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II ($19.95) documents the harro ...
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  Susan B. Anthony and Justice for All
By reading the biography of one remarkable woman, students can experience eight decades of 19th-cent ...
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  Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman
The book Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman ($16.99) describes 8-year-old Harriet's quest ...
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  Blue Eyed
The video Blue Eyed records Jane Elliot's diversity training workshop with 40 Midwesterners. ...
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  Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story
The book Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story ($15.95) uses the voice of Chiune Sugihara's ...
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  Elizabeth
While visiting an antique shop, a mother accidentally discovers Elizabeth ($16), a beloved do ...
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  Norton Anthology of African American Literature
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature ($44.95, with CD), edited by Henry Louis ...
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  Her Wild American Self
A praiseworthy collection of Filipino American stories in the book Her Wild American Self ($1 ...
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  Na Mo'olelo Hawai'i o ka Wa Kahiko: Stories of Old Hawai'i
Authentic Hawaiian legends gathered from a variety of sources are rewritten for children in the book ...
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  Muskrat Will Be Swimming
The author of Muskrat Will Be Swimming ($14.95) retells a Seneca creation legend in a contemp ...
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  Eagle Song
The book Eagle Song ($14.99) describes how Danny endures constant teasing and rejection by pe ...
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  The Worry Stone
The Worry Stone ($14.95) weaves three stories into one -- an original folktale from the Chuma ...
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  The Songs Are Free
In the video The Songs Are Free, Bernice Johnson Reagon -- scholar, educator, performer and f ...
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  Eleanor
Motherless at 8 and deprived of a relationship with her father, Eleanor Roosevelt -- who was to beco ...
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  Promise Me the Moon
Annie's dream of becoming an astronaut is nurtured through special relationships with her family, bo ...
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  Walks in Beauty
The novel Walks in Beauty ($6.96) describes the life of a young Navajo teenager, Anita Whiter ...
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  Ramadan
The majesty and beauty of one of Islam's most sacred observances are fully captured in the video ...
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  Granddaddy's Gift
Though Little Joe has a place to play, books to read and a family that loves her, Granddaddy's Gi ...
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  My Father's Boat
My Father's Boat ($15.95) acquaints the reader with a Vietnamese American father who reinforc ...
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  All The Mamas
All The Mamas ($16.95) is a whimsical poetic love story of the special bond between mothers a ...
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  In Big Moon Tortilla
After a series of disastrous events, Marta Enos learns from her comforting grandmother, "When w ...
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  I Have Heard of a Land
I Have Heard of a Land ($14.95) tells the story of a strong, courageous and pioneering Black ...
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  There Are No Mirrors in My Nana's House
The story goes that once we humans saw our reflections, we lost our souls. In the book There Are ...
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  Notable Women/African American Art
Consider using the vivid art of Notable Women ($24.95) or the thought-provoking images of ...
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  The Palm of My Heart
In a world that daily discourages Black children from seeing their virtues, it is refreshing to find ...
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  With Just One Flick of a Finger
"Hey you, you cool? Then I've got a story for you." With Just One Flick of a Finger ...
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  The Dalai Lama
The poor Tibetan village of Takster seems a world away from the impressive Palace of Lhasa looming i ...
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  Your Move
"Thanks, but no thanks" is James and Isaac's answer to their chance to become permanent members of t ...
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  Kinderlager
The words "Auschwitz-Birkenau" conjure some of the most heinous images known to humankind. ...
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  The Roses in My Carpet
Despite a harrowing, desperate existence in a refugee camp, a proud boy harbors hope for the future ...
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  The Gender Respect Workbook
Your character education curriculum can rise to a higher level with The Gender Respect Workbook Go

  Basic Social Skills For Youth
Incorporating conflict resolution and other life skills into the curriculum is an ongoing challenge ...
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  Painted Dreams
Lacking the essentials to practice her craft, Ti Marie, an impoverished Haitian girl, uses an orange ...
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  Moses Goes To A Concert
A young deaf boy learns his possibilities are endless in Moses Goes To A Concert ($16). After ...
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  Old Juana in Pumpkin Fiesta
Foolish Fernando is determined to win this year's pumpkin crown from Old Juana in Pumpkin Fiesta< ...
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  The Gale Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes
Tired of superficial resource materials on Native Americans? The Gale Encyclopedia of Native Amer ...
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  A Larger Memory: A History of Our Diversity, With Voices
An excellent primary source, Ronald Takaki's latest book, A Larger Memory: A History of Our Diver ...
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  Thirty Million Strong: Reclaiming the Hispanic Image in American Culture
With the Hispanic/Latino population as the nation's largest ethnic/racial minority group, educators ...
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  Struggling to Be Heard: The Unmet Needs of Asian Pacific American Children
Getting an education can be a struggle in and of itself. The endeavor can be even more overwhelming ...
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  From Rage to Hope: Strategies for Reclaiming Black & Hispanic Students
If you've ever experienced the "I-just-can't-reach-that-kid" feeling or puzzled over why your best i ...
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  Names
Names ($195) is a video and leader's guide that explores the impact of cultural labels and pu ...
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  Creating Circles of Peace: Alternatives to Violence
Creating Circles of Peace: Alternatives to Violence kits ($29.95 each) are available in Engli ...
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  What's Respect?
Tolerance built on respect doesn't just happen, but it can be taught using the videos What's Resp ...
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  Other People's Children
A Native Alaskan educator once said: "In order to teach you, I must know you." The wisdom of this st ...
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  The New Press Guide to Multicultural Resources for Young Readers
"Why Are You Always Giving Us That Black, Latino, Gay, Asian (Fill in the Blank) Stuff?" is one of t ...
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  The Power of Their Ideas
With a passionate voice and potent examples, The Power of Their Ideas ($20) goes to the mat i ...
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  The Color of Words
Ask anyone who has ever tried to engage in a conversation about race -- it is much easier said than ...
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  Latina and Latino Voices for Children and Teenagers
By the year 2000, more than 31 million Americans will identify themselves as Hispanic/Latino. Using ...
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Magazine Article
  Recipe for Respect
A theme unit on soup gives Arkansas 1st graders a taste of other cultures
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Teaching Tool
  Leagues Apart
The men and times of the Negro baseball leagues are profiled in Leagues Apart ($15). In a str ...
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  Fat Chance: The Big Prejudice
One brave man allowed his battle with obesity to be filmed for the video Fat Chance: The Big Prej ...
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  Sara's Secret
None of Sara's friends know she has a brother, even though his classroom is right down the hall from ...
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  Reach for the Moon
What began as a therapeutic writing exercise for a 13-year-old learning-disabled student evolved int ...
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  A Change in Perspective
By explaining what paralysis is and how it occurs, and by profiling five successful disabled people, ...
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  Eleven Turtle Tales
From Japan to India, Australia and America, the turtle holds a special place in folklore. Little ea ...
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Grant Summary
  Language, cultural materials to help ESL students
A high school Spanish teacher in Manchester, Tenn., received a $1,300 grant for up-to-date language ...
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  Bully-prevention program receives grant
An elementary school teacher in Bountiful, Utah, received a $1,000 grant for an anti-bullying progra ...
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  Program seeks to bridge culture/economic gap
A high school teacher in Sicily Island, La., received a $1,000 grant for a character education and P ...
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  Grant to help continue cultural exchange program
A middle school social studies teacher in Baldwin Park, Calif., received a $414 grant for resources ...
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  Project carries over to after-school program
An elementary school teacher in Vero Beach, Fla., received a $1,917 grant for a school improvement ...
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  Grant awarded to battle discrimination
A guidance counselor in a North Plains, Ore., elementary school where “White Power” tags were spread ...
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  Grant will fund Peaceful Playground
An elementary school teacher in Highland, Kan., received a $2,000 grant for a Peaceful Playground pr ...
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  Project amins to raise awareness of bias
A teacher in a St. Paul, Minn., alternative school received a $1,500 grant for a service-learning/pu ...
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  Appalachian students get cultural diversity lessons
A kindergarten teacher in the rural Appalachian community of Whitesburg Ky., received a $1,705 grant ...
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  Angency partnerships base of education program
A teacher in a Columbus, Ohio, alternative school received a $409 grant for resources to implement a ...
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  Textiles employed to show world religions
An elementary school teacher in Williston Park, N.Y., received a $640 grant for a peace reading gard ...
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  Mentoring program to foster ongoing partnerships
A high school teacher in Truckee, Calif., received a $970 grant for a mentoring program. The project ...
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  Positive Action Program funded
A teacher in Silvis, Ill., received a $1,200 grant to implement The Positive Action Program — a ...
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  Project will challenge stereotypes, build understanding
A high school teacher in Overland Park, Kan., received a $1,250 grant for a cultural diversity proj ...
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  Mentor program looks at teacher diversity
A high school educator in Pittsboro, N.C., received a $1,000 grant for an after school mentor/mentee ...
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  Unit covers the Harlem Renaissance
A middle school teacher in Milwaukee, Wis., received a $1,700 grant for a cross-curricular teaching ...
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  Play activities teach diversity
A preschool teacher for children with special needs in Mason, Ohio, received a $1,000 grant for a cu ...
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  Peaceful playground project receives grant
An elementary school teacher in Ipswich, Mass., received a $975 grant for a peaceful playground proj ...
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  Grant awarded for inclusive learning program
A teacher for students with severe physical and orthopedic disabilities in Albertson, N.Y., received ...
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  Resources will aid ELL students and parents
A kindergarten teacher in Everett, Mass., received a $500 grant for multi-language resources to supp ...
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  School adopts 'Blessed are the Peacemakers' theme
A teacher in Rice Lake, Wis., received a $960 grant for resources to promote tolerance in a school a ...
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  Urban, suburban schools partner up
A middle school educator in Farmington, Conn., received an $800 grant for a project bringing togethe ...
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  Respect Wall to serve as memorial
A charter school in Lafayette, Colo., received a $2,000 grant to enhance a character development pro ...
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  Tolerance article prompts Peaceful Playground
An elementary school teacher in San Jose, Calif., received a $650 grant to replicate the Peaceful P ...
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  Unit explores hidden bias
A high school English teacher in Woodland Hills, Calif., received a $1,163 grant for a unit on raci ...
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  Teacher receives funds for bilingual resources
An elementary school social skills teacher in Kissimmee, Fla., where 17 languages are spoken, receiv ...
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  Students will present heritage projects
A kindergarten teacher in the Teach for America program in San Jose, Calif., received a $400 grant f ...
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  Peer leadership program funded
A high school counselor in North Tonawanda, N.Y., received a $1,000 grant for a peer leadership prog ...
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  TV broadcasting part of diversity program
An elementary school teacher in Milford, Pa., received a $1,000 grant to enhance a cultural diversit ...
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  Violence prevention program improves school
An eighth grade civics/law studies teacher in Callahan, Fla., received a $2,000 grant for a violence ...
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  Peer mediation will improve critical thinking
An elementary school guidance counselor in Arverne, N.Y., received a $1,659 grant for a peer mediati ...
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  History lesson includes civil rights
A sixth grade American history teacher in Cincinnati, Ohio, received a $930 grant for a civil right ...
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  Service-learning program includes public presentation
A high school British literature teacher in Hudson, Ohio, received a $1,400 grant to enhance the se ...
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  Second Step prevents violence
A middle school social worker in Pavilion, N.Y., received a $1,657 grant to implement the Second Ste ...
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  Reading group to explore multiculturalism
A high school English teacher received a $1,373 grant to support a multicultural reading group in a ...
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  Tolerance-related sessions part of diversity project
An elementary school teacher in Genesee Depot, Wis., received a $ 1,371 grant for resources to expan ...
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  Literature a tool for measuring diversity
A middle school language arts teacher in Republic, Ohio, received a $2,000 grant to provide quality ...
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  Curriculum to address bullying
A middle school teacher in Hollywood, Fla., received a $427 grant for a curriculum to address bullyi ...
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  Student Dance Project
A high school teacher in Milwaukee, Wis., received a $500 TT grant for a combined performance of stu ...
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  Violence prevention program will train peacekeepers
An elementary school teacher in Far Rockaway, N.Y., received a $1,975 grant for a violence preventi ...
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  Resources will enhance Civil Rights unit
A middle school counselor in Fisher, Ill., received a $1,884 grant for current resources to enhance ...
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  Bullying unit suitable for all grade levels
A K-12 school psychologist in Oakfield, N.Y., received a $1,533 grant for a violence prevention curr ...
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  Grant to fund social skills project
An alternative school teacher in Papillion, Neb., received a $1,804 grant for a structured social sk ...
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  Resources to help special needs students
A teacher in an exceptional student center in Tampa, Fla., received a $750 grant for essential hands ...
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  Diverse scientists to be studied
A high school science teacher in Chicago, Ill., received a $1,123 grant for a service-learning proje ...
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Teaching Tool
  Understanding Homosexuality, Changing Schools: A Text for Teachers, Counselors and Administrators
Written by Arthur Lipkin, founder of Harvard University's Gay and Lesbian School Issues Project, ...
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  Multicultural Voices in Contemporary Literature
Multicultural Voices in Contemporary Literature ($26) promotes cultural sensitivity through s ...
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Grant Summary
  Tolerance promoted through empathy
Elementary school counselor in a homogeneous county in Layton, Utah, received a $1,000 grant for a c ...
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Teaching Tool
  My First Amazing World Explorer 2.0
Take your class on a global field trip! Students travel at their own pace as they learn about world ...
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Grant Summary
  Students to tour historic sites
A museum director in Decatur, Ga., received a $500 grant to support a curriculum for high school stu ...
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Teaching Tool
  Diversity Works
The Trivial Pursuit-style game Diversity Works ($18) is a fun way to enhance cultural appreci ...
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  Culture Smart!: Ready-to-Use Slides and Activities for Teaching Multicultural Appreciation Through Art
To introduce students to the artistic traditions of 10 different world regions, Culture Smart!: R ...
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  Multicultural Math
How did Ghana's Ashanti people weigh gold dust? Your students can find out with the high-gloss poste ...
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  Puppies for Sale
When a pet store owner tries to convince a youngster in search of a puppy that the one with a crippl ...
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  Being Your Best
Children exercise "character muscles" to strengthen 10 positive traits in Being Your Best ($ ...
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  Express Diversity!
Express Diversity! ($75) is an easy-to-use interdisciplinary curriculum to promote students' ...
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  Student Workshop: Respecting Differences
Student Workshop: Respecting Differences ($89.95) is a character education kit with an 18-min ...
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  Walk This Way
Each of the three videos in Walk This Way ($245) features young people relating personal stor ...
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  Molly Bannaky
Molly Bannaky ($16) tells the true story of a dairymaid exiled from England for the crime of ...
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  Autobiography of a People: Three Centuries of African American History Told by Those Who Lived It
Mighty voices and courageous souls tell the stories our students need to know in Autobiography of ...
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Grant Summary
  School takes a look at character education
An elementary school teacher in Cobden, Ill., received a $1,400 grant for a school-wide character ed ...
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Teaching Tool
  Everything You Need To Know About Racism
How did racism begin in America? How does racism affect me? How can I make a difference? These are j ...
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Grant Summary
  Oral History Book and Video Project
Middle school teacher in California received a $1200 Teaching Tolerance grant for a peer education p ...
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  County-Wide Literature Program
Due to negative stereotyping of educational materials, lack of interpersonal relationships between m ...
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Teaching Tool
  The Challenge of Diversity
An ethnic and racial focus on The Challenge of Diversity ($9.95) offers insight to the past, ...
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Grant Summary
  Diversity Club Collaboration
Kansas City Harmony, a nonprofit organization in Kansas City, Mo., received a $1,200 Teaching Tolera ...
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  Class to host Empty Bowl supper for community
A middle school art teacher in Hutchinson, Kan., received a $1,980 grant for a cultural diversity pr ...
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  Bringing West Africa into the Classroom
An elementary teacher in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania received a $500 Teaching Tolerance grant to purcha ...
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  Curriculum to address aggression
An elementary school counselor in Syracuse, Utah, received a $1,400 grant for a comprehensive curric ...
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Teaching Tool
  Case of the Goblin Pearls
Popular young adult author Laurence Yep's Case of the Goblin Pearls ($4.95) crackles with exc ...
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  Tortillas and Lullabies, Tortillas y cancioncitas
Dazzling illustrations by six Costa Rican women make Tortillas and Lullabies, Tortillas y cancion ...
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  Seven Brave Women
Like a breeze blowing through one generation to the next, Seven Brave Women ($15) gently port ...
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Grant Summary
  'Peace Garden' builds community
A middle school teacher in Haddonfield, N.J., received a $1,000 grant for a gardening partnership wi ...
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Teaching Tool
  Girls Who Rocked the World
Profiling dynamic "sheroes" who reached extraordinary achievements before the age of 20, Girls Wh ...
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  Journey Home
Ten-year-old Mai is eager to accompany her mother to Saigon in search of her mom's birth parents. In ...
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  Blue Jean Magazine
Advertising-free Blue Jean Magazine offers young women an intelligent alternative to today's ...
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  The Chariot Races: A Journey from Disabled to Enabled
With exhilarating videography, The Chariot Races: A Journey from Disabled to Enabled ($69.95) ...
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  The Face at the Window
The Face at the Window ($14.95) introduces young readers to the sensitive topic of mental ill ...
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  Nobody Else Like Me
"Over the midnight sea I will sing you a song no one sang to me. May it keep you good company&q ...
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  Outspoken: Role Models from the Gay and Lesbian Community
Outspoken: Role Models from the Gay and Lesbian Community ($16) is a collection of interviews ...
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  The Syracuse Cultural Workers 1999 Peace Calendar
The Syracuse Cultural Workers 1999 Peace Calendar ($12.95) unites visionary artwork, people's ...
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  American Cultures for Children
Hosted by Phylicia Rashad, American Cultures for Children will touch the hearts and broaden t ...
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  New Faces of Liberty
"Jews from the Former USSR in the United States" and "Lakbay: Journey of the People of the Philippin ...
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  Ethnic Man!
Ethnic Man!, a kit containing an audiocassette, flash cards, instructor's resource manual and ...
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Grant Summary
  Students to partner with retirees
An elementary school teacher in Osprey, Fla., received a $1,177 grant for an intergenerational proje ...
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  Grant to supplement social studies
A 5th grade teacher in a self-contained class in Paris, Ill., received a $1,000 grant for resources ...
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  Students to make civil rights movies
A middle school social worker in Skowhegan, Maine, received an $880 grant for student-produced video ...
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  Oral history project funded
A middle school guidance counselor in Ladson, S.C., received a $1,400 grant for an oral history proj ...
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  Program to Address Needs of Refugee Population
An elementary guidance counselor in Manchester, N.H., received an $800 TT grant to implement a schoo ...
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  Multicultural curriculum needed
A teacher in a K-8th grade school in a rural homogeneous school district in Bascom, Ohio, received a ...
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  Special education students to maintain garden
A special education teacher for grades 6-9 in Philadelphia, Pa., received a $1,500 grant to support ...
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  Counselor to organize multicultural fair
An elementary school counselor in Dixmoor, Ill., received a $1,200 grant for a cultural diversity pr ...
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  Teacher wants to promote tolerance
A 9th-grade English teacher in a homogeneous school in Boiling Springs, S.C., received a $1,150 gran ...
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  Character education project funded
An elementary school teacher in Centereach, N.Y., received a $1,600 grant for a character education ...
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  Service learning project to incorporate literature
An elementary school teacher in Austin, Texas, received an $800 grant for resources to develop a cur ...
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  Special needs children to care for garden
A teacher of special needs children in San Antonio, Texas, received a $500 grant for a school flower ...
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  Students to produce book project
A middle school teacher in Derry, N.H., received a $556 grant for an advisor/advisee cultural divers ...
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  Resources to support multiple classrooms
A high school teacher in Oxford, Ohio, received an $846 grant for resources to support an American l ...
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  Students to identify community needs
An elementary school teacher in Bountiful, Utah, received a $342 grant for a service-learning projec ...
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  Family histories bolster self esteem
The director of ESL and Migrant Education at a rural Texas School developed a project enabling stude ...
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  Parents Provides Tolerance Resources
Parent coordinator for Winthrop, Mass., elementary schools (schools have no librarians) received a $ ...
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  Book club would engage on school-wide level
A Staten Island, NY, pre K-5 educator will develop and implement a school-wide "book of the month" p ...
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  Cooperative play to learn tolerance lessons
A school counselor from Dumfries, Va., plans to purchase cooperative games for use in family nights ...
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  American Dreams Unit
A 9th-grade English teacher at Northwest Guildford High School in Greensboro, N.C., received an $877 ...
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  United We Stand: A Multi-Cultural Awareness Project
A fourth grade teacher in Flushing, N.Y., was awarded a $1,997 grant to develop a cultural diversity ...
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  Growing a Future
A teacher of at-risk students in DeKalb, Ill., received a grant of $1,200 to supply materials for a ...
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  What Prejudice Means to Me
The National Council of Jewish Women was awarded $1550 to replicate and extend their "What Prejudice ...
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  Curriculum Responds to Community "Discomfort"
Violence prevention coordinator in Crookston, Minn., received a $500 TT grant for an anti-bias curri ...
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  Creating an Intergenerational Community
A teacher in White River Junction, Vt., was awarded a $1600 grant to support intergenerational activ ...
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  Bringing Stories (and People) to Light
Thanks to an $820 Teaching Tolerance Grant, students in Luray, Va., will capture the stories of loca ...
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  Buildling a Peaceful Community
An elementary school teacher in Southbridge, Mass., was awarded a Teaching Tolerance Grant of $1,205 ...
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  Erasing the Color Line
A $723 grant will be used to pair college students with high school students to clean up a recently ...
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  Racial Justice and Character Education Project
The YMCA Before and After School Program at St. Paul's in Waukegan, Ill., -- 95% low-income families ...
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Teaching Tool
  Rainy's Powwow

A young girl ponders which dance she will perform at the intertribal gathering in Rainy's Poww ...
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  Celebrating Chinese New Year

Celebrating Chinese New Year ($16.95) offers a close-up look at a festival that has been c ...
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Grant Summary
  Community Theater Project
A guidance counselor in Canby, Ore., received a $1175 grant to raise anti-bias awareness through int ...
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Teaching Tool
  Tea with Milk

In elegant watercolors and lucid text, artist/writer Allen Say recounts the story of his Japanese ...
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  Nadia's Hands

In Nadia's Hands ($15.95), a young Pakistani American girl worries about what her classmat ...
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  Night Golf

Not content to be just a caddy, James longs to play golf even though the sport has traditionally ...
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  The Three Muslim Festivals

Both Muslim and non-Muslim youth will enjoy learning about The Three Muslim Festivals ($9) ...
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  The Alternative Alphabet Poster for Little and Big People

From basic elements of nature to concepts of social justice, The Alternative Alphabet Poster f ...
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Grant Summary
  Digital Testimonials
A $974 grant will support anti-bullying and harassment video testimonials for Emory H. Markle Interm ...
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Teaching Tool
  A New View of the World

Give your students A New View of the World with the newly revised handbook ($7) that accom ...
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  Young Women's Lives

Building self-awareness is essential in Young Women's Lives ($299). This multi-session cur ...
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  Una Linda Raza: Cultural and Artistic Traditions of the Hispanic Southwest

Una Linda Raza: Cultural and Artistic Traditions of the Hispanic Southwest ($22.95) is a s ...
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  Racism Explained to My Daughter

Looking for a simple way to introduce equity issues to students of all ages and genders? Racis ...
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Grant Summary
  'Let's Be Friends' Book Club
An elementary teacher in Rush, NY, requested $603 to purchase books, featuring strong friendship rel ...
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Teaching Tool
  Feisty Females: Inspiring Girls to Think Mathematically

Why do girls enter high school more "math ready" than boys yet fall behind in mathematical achiev ...
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Grant Summary
  Teaching Tolerance in Our Community
As a result of a dramatic increase in hate crimes, Jan Stergar, director of Community Children's Cen ...
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Teaching Tool
  Teen Voices

Teen Voices magazine ($20/year) provides an "alternative to the glitzy, gossipy, fashion-ori ...
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Grant Summary
  My IEP and Me
Molly Corey of Leo Bernabi School in Spencerport, NY, received an $890 grant to support a program de ...
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Teaching Tool
  Outrageous Women of Ancient Times

Outrageous Women of Ancient Times ($12.95) presents fascinating accounts of bold females w ...
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  No Body's Perfect … Everybody's Special

To introduce children to disability issues in an intriguing fashion, let them visit the workshop ...
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  The Truth About Hate

Nearly 56 percent of the hate-related murders reported each year in the U.S. are committed by off ...
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Grant Summary
  The 'Art' of Tolerance
A master art teacher in the Fairbanks (Alaska) North Star Borough School District received an $800 ...
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Teaching Tool
  Getting Along and Working Together

Two new video series from Phi Delta Kappa focus on common classroom conflicts and offer positive ...
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  The Bus Ride

Sara knows she lives in a place where "Jim Crow" laws exist. Yet she doesn't see any di ...
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  My Freedom Trip

Soo and her guide cautiously approach the river that will take them to freedom land. The 15-year- ...
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Grant Summary
  It's Cool to be a Good Citizen
Deep Creek Central Elementary counselor, Erica Tolbert, of Chesapeake, Va., received a $700 Teaching ...
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  H.E.A.R.T.
Pre K-5 physical education teacher in Waynesboro, Va., received $2000 to equip a multi-sensory room ...
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  Peer-to-Peer Mentoring
April Dohle, Executive Director of Tutordotte.com, received a $1500 grant for middle and upper grade ...
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  Phoenix Family Project
Sarah Graves, with The Phoenix Family Housing Corporation in Kansas City, Mo., received a $2000 gran ...
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  Hand in Hand
Vicki Rosebrook, of The Macklin Intergenerational Institute in Findlay, Ohio, received a $1470 gran ...
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  Her Story, His Story, Our Story
David Vialard, a fourth grade teacher at River Oaks Elementary in Houston, Texas, received $501 to p ...
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  Hmong Girls Support Group
Bay View Middle School teacher Jean Hamersky was awarded $600 to create a safe space and a support g ...
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  We Can Resolve This Nonviolently!
Trina Hollingsworth, an administrator and teacher, received a $1499 grant for students to launch a c ...
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Teaching Tool
  Jubilee Journey
quot;What's Juneteenth?" asks 13-year-old Emily Rose Chartier, in response to her Texas grandmo ...
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  In Camouflage
All 14-year-old Kyle knew was that he wanted some time away from the city, which included his mom an ...
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Classroom Activity
  Our World of Experiences
An art educator offers an exercise to help teachers respect differences between them and their stude ...
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Teaching Tool
  Kids Like Us
The book Kids Like Us ($24.95) enables educators to teach about diversity through the creativ ...
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  So What Is Tolerance Anyway?
So What Is Tolerance Anyway? ($17.95) is a student's guide to American civics written in a do ...
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  Until Proven Guilty
Many school systems write off children who enter the juvenile courts, assigning them to vocational o ...
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  Adventure Education for the Classroom Community
Adventure Education for the Classroom Community ($89) utilizes the experiential learning cycl ...
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  Yokoso! Welcome!
"Yokoso! Welcome!" Explore Daruma dolls, learn to count in Japanese, sing a saku ...
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  One Boy From Kosovo
In 1998, the Serbian government mounted a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Albanians in Kosovo. ...
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  Arab American Encyclopedia
Well-researched and comprehensive, Arab American Encyclopedia ($45) covers 19 topic areas, fr ...
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  Exploring World Art
Young readers can enjoy Exploring World Art ($24.95) while examining various ways people have ...
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  What Are You?
Poems, essays, photographs and interviews from mixed-race youth answer the often-asked question, ...
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  Americanos
Latino life in the United States -- from flamenco bars to churches; at school, work, home and play - ...
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  Different Just Like Me
April counts the days till she visits her Grammie in another city. As she waits, she observes people ...
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  America's Daughters: 400 Years of American Women
America's Daughters: 400 Years of American Women ($16.95) offers easy-to-read profiles of mor ...
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  Girls Think of Everything
What could these items possibly have in common -- windshield wipers, liquid paper, Scotchgard, and t ...
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  Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride
Based on an actual event, Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride ($16.95) describes a night in 1933 ...
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Grant Summary
  Middle School Tolerance Conference
A middle school English teacher in Pahoa, Hawaii (10% of the school population is considered at-risk ...
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Teaching Tool
  Aruna's Journeys
To an Ohio 6th grader, swimming and horseback riding at summer camp sounds a lot better than a famil ...
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Grant Summary
  Starting Small Training
An elementary teacher in a rural Pennsylvania school received a $700 Teaching Tolerance grant to imp ...
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  Elem. School Addresses Conflict
Elementary school in Aurora, Illinois received a $1521.75 Teaching Tolerance grant to purchase books ...
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  Rural school starts diversity project
A K-8th grade school librarian in a rural homogeneous community in Holliday, Mo., received a $979 gr ...
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  Grant funds community garden
A middle school Spanish teacher in Richmond, Va., received a $2,000 grant for a year-round interdisc ...
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  School Counselor Holds Conference on Racial Gangs
A counselor at a Moorpark, California high school with serious racial problems: Hispanic gangs, whit ...
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  Literature and Cultural Celebration
An elementary school in Iowa received a $1200 Teaching Tolerance grant to purchase materials to enha ...
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Teaching Tool
  Angels Ride Bikes
Angels Ride Bikes ($15.95), the third in a bilingual poetry series, shares the author's child ...
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  Hippity Hop
Move your feet to classic lyrics with a brand new beat. Hippity Hop features Linda Tillery, ...
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Grant Summary
  Curriculum addresses ethnic conflict
A high school counselor for high-risk students in Fresno, Calif., received a $1,400 grant for the na ...
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  Grant funds sustainable source of literature
A high school remedial reading teacher in an economically disadvantaged school in Avon Park, Fla., r ...
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Teaching Tool
  When the Rain Sings
"I can remember the burn in my heart. The pain of watching my daddy sleep in the arms of Mother Eart ...
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Grant Summary
  Festival Promotes Cultural Understanding
Elementary art specialist in Savage, Minnesota received a $2000 Teaching Tolerance grant for an inte ...
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  Students offered history from African American perspective
A high school social studies teacher in Edina, Minn., received a $2,000 grant for resources to imple ...
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  Special Ed. Student Book Project
A Freemont, California school with physically challenged, LD and ESL students received a $1950 Teach ...
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Classroom Activity
  Riding with Rosa
A photo prompt helps students experience history.
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Teaching Tool
  Tales Alive!
Engaging activities give life to 10 multicultural folktales in Tales Alive! ($15.95). Exercis ...
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Classroom Activity
  Reader's Theater
An Australian story inspires a traveling reader's theater
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  Census and Sensibility
How does the 2000 U.S. Census differ from previous years?
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Lesson Plan
  Eat, My Fine Coat!
"Eat, My Fine Coat" is an online storybook, with full audio for the beginning reader. Through entert ...
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Classroom Activity
  A Contract on Bullying
A Minnesota teacher challenges her students to face up to verbal and physical harassment.
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  Christmas Curriculum: Unintended Consequences
This classic article from Childhood Education explores the downfalls of popular Christmas cur ...
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  Peace Be Upon You
Explore the separation of church and state with regards to school prayer and religious tolerance.
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  Restoring the Lost Pages: The History Behind Black History Month
Many educators silently wrestle with the question: Is Black History Month a window of opportunity or ...
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Teaching Tool
  The Resource Guide for the Disabled
The Resource Guide for the Disabled ($10.95) will be a valuable addition to your reference sh ...
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  The Tao of Teaching
The 81 brief, inspirational messages for teachers in The Tao of Teaching ($10.95) are based o ...
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  Many Faces of Mexico
Do your students know that the term "United States" can refer to the United States of Mexico? And th ...
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  Silver Rights
As the school bus moved through the sea of angry white faces, 16-year-old Ruth Carter realized that ...
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  American Sons
In the video American Sons, Asian American male voices project the harmful, lasting effects o ...
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  Straight from the Heart
The Academy Award-nominated film Straight from the Heart examines homophobia not simply as a ...
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Magazine Article
  Tools Showcase
New Day Films Offers a Broader Vision
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Teaching Tool
  Buddha Stories
Inspired by the oldest Buddhist texts, the author of Buddha Stories ($16.95) uses gold ink on ...
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  The Story of Religion
Religious ideas shape the behavior of individuals, communities and nations and often influence world ...
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  Ordinary Splendors
For several years, a young artist drew brilliant animal pictures and presented them to his mother as ...
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  At the River I Stand
By viewing At the River I Stand, students will learn about economic justice, civil rights and ...
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  Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table
Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table ($47), an 824-page history of the Civil Rights Movement, serve ...
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Classroom Activity
  Pier to Peer
A class project in Kansas City facilitates interactions between students and refugees.
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  Meet the Defenders: Helen Prejean
An essay by the nun and anti-capital punishment activist.
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  Is Peace Possible in the 21st Century?
High school students look for answers through creative art and songs.
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Teaching Tool
  The Teen Witnesses
The Teen Witnesses to the Holocaust series ($159.60) compiles diary entries and personal inte ...
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Grant Summary
  Homelessness stereotypes debunked
A middle school reading teacher in Las Cruces, N.M., received $2,000 for a project to debunk the st ...
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Teaching Tool
  Algebra Activities from Many Cultures and Geometry Activities from Many Cultures
Algebra Activities from Many Cultures and Geometry Activities from Many Cultures ($17.95 each ...
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  Education About Asia
The semiannual Education About Asia ($14/two issues) is a topic-specific magazine featuring r ...
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Grant Summary
  Schools Join Together, Bridge Racial Divides
A teacher in a homogeneous school in Centerbrook, Conn., received a $1,000 TT grant for a culturally ...
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Teaching Tool
  Indian School: Teaching the White Man's Way
Imagine being taken from your family as a child, sent off to a strange school, having your hair cut ...
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  Teaching for a Tolerant World

Featuring commentaries from classroom teachers and a vast collection of resources, Teaching fo ...
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  We Can't Teach What We Don't Know

Written by a White teacher, We Can't Teach What We Don't Know ($20.95) is an indispensable ...
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  The Women's Movement in the United States
The Women's Movement in the United States ($69) is an interactive CD-ROM encyclopedia with a ...
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  Hands Are Not for Hitting
The simple but important message conveyed in Hands Are Not for Hitting ($10.95) helps childre ...
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Classroom Activity
  Mystery and Mayhem
Using literature to help high school students examine the violence and loss of innocence of the 1960 ...
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Current Event
  Peace Education Center
Certificate Program in Peace Education, Teachers College, Columbia University. (September 2002)
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Teaching Tool
  The Bully-Free Classroom
Educators can tackle an age-old but still serious problem in schools with The Bully-Free Classroo ...
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  You're Always Welcome!
You're Always Welcome! ($119.95) is the first in a series of programs, each of which includes ...
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  With Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Compassion
With Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Compassion ($17.95), teachers, counselors and st ...
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Grant Summary
  Students to research diverse groups
A middle school visual arts teacher in Orangeburg, S.C., received a $1,992 grant for a cultural dive ...
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  Grant to help combat negative publicity
An elementary school teacher in Las Vegas, Nev., received a $339 grant for multicultural resources t ...
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Teaching Tool
  Art & Life in Africa
Art is a primary tool for understanding other people, but, out of context, many pieces are misconcei ...
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Grant Summary
  Family tree part of ELL program
An elementary school teacher in a Rock Springs, Wyo., school that houses the ELL population, receive ...
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  Parental involvement kiy in curriculum
A high school teacher in New Port Richey, Fla., received a $1,997 grant for an innovative character ...
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Magazine Article
  A Mother's Voice
An innovative reading project funded with a Teaching Tolerance grant
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  A Project Hits Home
An elementary school in Iowa uses a Teaching Tolerance grant to explore homelessness and find ways t ...
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Teaching Tool
  Beyond the Silence: Listening for Democracy

A democratic classroom. For many teachers, the term evokes an image of classes without rules or b ...
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Magazine Article
  Believe and Let Believe
The editor of Teaching Tolerance writes on critics' objections to the magazine's treatment of ...
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Teaching Tool
  Teaching/Learning Anti-Racism
Teaching/Learning Anti-Racism ($17.95) is a must-read for any teacher interested in helping c ...
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  Whiteness: The Communication of Social Identity
Whiteness: The Communication of Social Identity ($27.95) explores European American-ness thro ...
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  Beating the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Males
Parents of African American males understand the odds are often stacked against their sons' success. ...
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Magazine Article
  Keepers of the Word
Bilingual storytellers blend history, tradition and culture to teach the power of language and story
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  A Place to Stand
The editor of Teaching Tolerance reflects on the need to commemorate the toll of slavery.
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Teaching Tool
  Educating Latino Students: A Guide to Successful Practice
Educating Latino Students: A Guide to Successful Practice ($44.95) is an information-rich res ...
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  Black American History: Slavery to Civil Rights
The CD-ROM Black American History: Slavery to Civil Rights ($295) is divided into eight 20-mi ...
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  Freedom On My Mind
Between 1961 and 1964, Mississippi was "invaded" by Northern college students who took part in the V ...
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  The National Civil Rights Museum Celebrates Everyday People
The Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, is one of the s ...
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  A Day's Work
When Francisco tells a lie to get a job, he finds more work than he bargains for. The book A Day' ...
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  The Tortilla Factory
The Tortilla Factory ($14) pays tribute to the hard work involved in producing this food item ...
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  American History Activators
Get students out of their seats and into active learning with educational simulations. Neighborho ...
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Grant Summary
  Disability Awareness Project Teaches About Autism
A middle school teacher in Schoolcraft, Mich., received a $750 TT grant for a disabilities awareness ...
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Teaching Tool
  Heroes
Donnie doesn't like to play war anymore: He's always designated "the enemy" because of his Japanese ...
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  Maya Lin: Architect and Artist
In 1981, a 21-year-old Asian American woman became the object of controversy when she was chosen to ...
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  Grandfather Four Winds and Rising Moon
A Native American boy learns how his blind grandfather "sees" the beauty of nature in G ...
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  Las Nanas de Abuelita
The birth of a granddaughter inspired the collection of bilingual poems, riddles and lullabies from ...
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  Uno, Dos, Tres: One, Two, Three
In the book Uno, Dos, Tres: One, Two, Three ($14.95), two sisters shop in a festive Mexican m ...
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  Children from Australia to Zimbabwe: A Photographic Journey Around the World
Youngsters can explore and connect with the larger international community in the book Children f ...
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  A Is for Asia
The alphabet book A Is for Asia ($15.95) introduces different Asian countries, foods, animals ...
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  Feathers and Fools
In the book Feathers and Fools ($16), swans and peacocks self-destruct in battle, leaving beh ...
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  Why?
With startling simplicity,Why? ($15.95) exposes the senselessness of war. This wordless pictu ...
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  It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School
The ground-breaking film It's Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School, developed for p ...
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  America Is Me
"What should American parents tell their children about slavery?" "What were the Free ...
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Magazine Article
  Lighten Up
The editor of Teaching Tolerance reflects on the ups and downs of laughter.
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Teaching Tool
  Ordinary Americans
Ordinary Americans ($17.95) is a supplemental text that relates U.S. history through the stor ...
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  Cultural Reporter
The interdisciplinary kit Cultural Reporter ($179.95) sends students into their communities t ...
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  School's Out
Using real names, real schools and real incidents, openly gay and lesbian educators and students rel ...
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  Ellis Island: Doorway to Freedom
From 1892 to 1943, the question of who should be allowed into America was asked and answered on a sm ...
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  New Friends, True Friends, Stuck-Like-Glue Friends
Boys and girls of all races cavort together on the pages of New Friends, True Friends, Stuck-Like ...
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  Hats Off to Hair
Braided, beaded or bangled? Straight, curly or tangled? From Afros and cornrows to long locks and cr ...
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  Rebel Hearts
The video documentary Rebel Hearts tells the story of Angelina and Sarah Grimke -- sisters fr ...
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  Mary Lincoln's Dressmaker
Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley spent 30 years as a slave and four years in the White House as an employee a ...
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  Girl Power
Personal writings of teenage girls -- from "farm chicks" to "sistas" to "so ...
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Magazine Article
  Measures of Success
The mother of a "slow learner" champions respect for learning differences
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  Paddling Upstream
Catholic and Protestant youth in Northern Ireland embark on a brighter future
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  Other People's Shoes
A secondary teacher uses multiple perspectives to examine the past
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  Where's George?
Primary students learn the value of questioning their social studies book
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Teaching Tool
  Culture in School Learning
Culture in School Learning ($14.95) is a must-read book for all educators who want to teach d ...
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Magazine Article
  The Age of Ubuntu
The editor of Teaching Tolerance reflects on social change in South Africa.
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  Tools Showcase
Peoples Publishing Group offers an authentic voice
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  The Right Questions
A survivor of child abuse reflects on his schools days
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  Musical Chairs
Booming Las Vegas schools struggle to make a place for everyone
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  Equal Partners
Austin teenagers learn to expect respect in dating relationships
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Teaching Tool
  Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Beverly Daniel Tatum's book Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? ($2 ...
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  Of Borders and Dreams: A Mexican-American Experience of Urban Education
Author Chris Liska Carger encourages teachers to learn about their students' home life as a way to l ...
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Magazine Article
  Tools Showcase
The Spertus Museum offers resources that underscore aspects of Jewish life around the world
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  Don't Walk Away
The associate director of Teaching Tolerance urges us to stick with the tough conversations.
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Teaching Tool
  Harlem
Walter Dean Myers delivers a libation of words in the sweet deep blues of Harlem ($16.95), a ...
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  Of Many Colors: Portraits of Multiracial Families
Of Many Colors: Portraits of Multiracial Families ($19.95) uses intimate black-and-white phot ...
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  Trevor's Story: Growing Up Biracial
More than two million U.S. children have parents of different races. Trevor's Story: Growing Up B ...
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  God Made Me Special!
Students with Tourette syndrome bring a distinct presence to the classroom. In God Made Me Specia ...
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  Rosa Parks
In Rosa Parks ($19.95), historian Douglas Brinkley shines new light on the "Mother of the Civ ...
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  An Algonquian Year
Sap Moon, Spearfish Moon, Green Corn Moon, Hunter's Moon -- the names of each month's full moon mark ...
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  The Blizzard's Robe
Batik hues give textured brilliance to The Blizzard's Robe ($16), a story about an Arctic peo ...
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  Reflections in Black: a History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present
See America -- abolitionists, Black middle-class families, African diaspora, the Civil Rights Moveme ...
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  In the Hollow of Your Hand
The sturdy, embracing voice of Alice McGill re-creates the lullabies that raised generations of chil ...
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  Grand Fathers
Grand Fathers ($18.95) celebrates relationships with this arguably most accessible of male fi ...
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  Up From the Ashes
Narrated from the perspective of a fictitious 9-year-old, Up From the Ashes ($16.95) is based ...
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  Enough
Young Marusia outwitted the Stalinist policies that caused devastating famine in Ukraine in the 1930 ...
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  Share the Sky
In Share the Sky ($6.95), Fei-fei loves to fly kites her grandfather makes for her: long-tail ...
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  Being Hmong Means Being Free
The 60-minute video Being Hmong Means Being Free features one family's transplanting from mou ...
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  Nuyorican Dreams
Educator Robert Torres traces his family's flight from poverty in Puerto Rico to New York in Nuyo ...
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  Esperanza Rising
Inspired by her grandmother's life story, Pam Muñoz Ryan penned Esperanza Rising ($15.95), a ...
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  The Five-Fingered Family
In The Five-Fingered Family ($16.95), an ancient Punjabi tale from India, the Angulee (meanin ...
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  It Doesn't Have To Be This Way: A Barrio Story
It Doesn't Have To Be This Way: A Barrio Story ($15.95), written in Spanish and English, rela ...
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  The Streets are Free
Once luscious hillsides in Caracas, Venezuela, give way to "barrios" as people flock to cities in se ...
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  The House of Wisdom
Goods flow from all over the world into 9-century Baghdad, the heart of the Islamic Empire. The most ...
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Grant Summary
  One Voice for Change
April Powell, Community Relations Director of CLASS! Publications, of Las Vegas, Nev., received $178 ...
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  Books For Us!
XCEL Academy in San Francisco, Calif., serves ethnically and economically diverse students but does ...
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  Social Skills Program
The Lenvill B. Martin Ed Center for Achievement principal, Michelle Williams, received a $2000 grant ...
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  In Our Family
A school librarian was awarded a $1000 for a multicultural book collection featuring family diversit ...
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  Keys to Character
An elementary music teacher in Winter Haven, Fla., received a $2000 grant for a character education ...
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  Disability Awareness Day
"Disability Awareness Day!" has students planning and creating hands-on learning stations to teach a ...
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  Tolerance taught in residential facility
A K-12th grade teacher in a residential treatment facility for emotionally disturbed children in Dou ...
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  Students to produce tolerance-related media
A high school teacher in Espanola, N.M., received a $2,000 grant for student produced documentary vi ...
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  Historical treatment of minorities resources needed
A middle school teacher in Spring Hill, Fla., received a $1,693 grant for curriculum resources that ...
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  School plan takes on bullies
An elementary school character education teacher in Bountiful, Utah, received a $1,400 grant for a b ...
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Teaching Tool
  Bridges Across the World
In Bridges Across the World (CD: $16.98; cassette: $14.98), children learn new phrases as the ...
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Grant Summary
  Peer mediation program funded
An elementary school teacher in Brooklyn, N.Y., received a $1,000 grant for a peer mediation program ...
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  Shared community service project comes to reservation
A high school social studies teacher in Lakewood, Colo., received a $1,500 grant for a cross-cultura ...
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  Students 4 Justice to implement peer juries
Students 4 Justice, a multiracial youth-led group, in Denver, Colo., received a $2,000 grant to imp ...
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  Teacher Responds to Racial Comments
Third grade teacher in Camarillo, Calif., with a class of predominantly European American students r ...
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  Parents Invited to Character Education Activities
An elementary school guidance counselor in El Cajon, Calif., received a $1,000 TT grant for a school ...
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Teaching Tool
  Hawaii's Last Queen
Hawaii's Last Queen ($59.95) is the intriguing story of the life of Queen Liliuokalani and th ...
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  Kids Talk TV: Inside Out
Most students watch TV, but do they really see it? Kids Talk TV: Inside Out ($79.95) exposes ...
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  Out of the Past
Out of the Past ($99) is a captivating testament to the struggle for gay and lesbian rights i ...
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  Sun, Moon, and Stars
Sun, Moon, and Stars ($22.50) is a superb collection of stories, lore and myths from around t ...
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  Honoring Our Ancestors

Encourage students to explore their cultural heritages with the captivating book Honoring Our ...
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  Duke Ellington

In Duke Ellington ($15.95), students can discover the genius of the jazz musician and comp ...
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  Iqbal Masih and the Crusaders Against Child Slavery

In his 12 years of life, Iqbal Masih fought against the injustices of child servitude in his home ...
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  Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement

An excellent primary source for students and educators, Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the ...
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Magazine Article
  Facts of Life
Evidence from the Human Genome Project reveals that
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  Healing Waters
An Oregon educator breaks the logjam of environmental conflict
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  Stories Waiting to be Told
Refugee students find their voices
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Teaching Tool
  Multicultural Resources on the Internet
The World Wide Web is a gold mine for multicultural resources, but often educators don't know where ...
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  The Children are Watching: How the Media Teach About Diversity
Students internalize media-based multicultural information and stereotypes long before teachers deci ...
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  Paper Trail
A teenage boy, whose father is an undercover FBI agent, grew up in a paramilitary camp. He now runs ...
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  In Our Own Way: How Anti-Bias Work Shapes Our Lives

Educators may find reflections of themselves in a new collection of essays titled In Our Own W ...
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Classroom Activity
  'Unbranding' to Encourage an Appreciation of Diversity
Lesson on 'unbranding' guides students toward diversity appreciation
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  The Peace Behind Mother's Day
Honor the true origin of Mother's Day by using these activities with your class.
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Parent Guide
  World Without Words
Parents can use "World Without Words" to help children understand and appreciate the multicultural r ...
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Classroom Activity
  Anonymous Writing Partners
Anonymous journaling helps portray the reality of bullying
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  Brown v. Board: What It Means Today
Examine the impact of Brown v. Board and the state of school segregation today using intervie ...
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  Magic Carpet
Examine identity and assimilation with an activity that asks the question: Was there ever a part of ...
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  Migration and the Spirits of Life
A Day of the Dead activity
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  Student Service Reflection: A Different Kind of Vacation
A student reflects on his travel to New Orleans, where he helped rebuild parts of the Ninth Ward.
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  Mix It Up: Recommended Reading
Librarian Joa LaVille shares her Mix It Up reading list. (Grades preK-8)
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  Honor Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy -- do something!
Martin Luther King III and Andrew Shue challenge America's students to perform Acts of Kindness and ...
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  The ABCs of Religion in Schools
Learn how schools can teach religious tolerance -- and stay within constitutional bounds.
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  Reverse Images
The GO GIRLS! project inspires young women to challenge the media's promotion of unhealthy messages ...
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  Civil Rights and Americans with Disabilities: Early Grades Activity
Assessing Access is a classroom activity examining the Civil Rights Act and ADA for grades 3-6.
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  Civil Rights and Americans with Disabilities: Upper Grades Activity
Who's Voting Now? is a classroom activity examining the Civil Rights Act and ADA for grades 9-12.
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Grant Summary
  A Whole World Consists of Small Parts Working Together
Teacher Laurie Boulden received a $1990 grant to use the TRIBES program with students and families a ...
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Classroom Activity
  Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks
Use these classroom activities and our curriculum kit to explore the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955.
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Current Event
  Harry Potter Movie Sparks Discussion
Nov. 21, 2005 -- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire made magic at the box office in its open ...
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  Wheels of Justice
1977: Disability rights activist stage a month-long sit-in at a government building in San Francisco ...
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Classroom Activity
  Family Ties and Fabric Tales
Exploring family roots and immigration.
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Current Event
  News of the Week:
The Best of Education News

Must-Read Headlines from the Week of August 4, 2003.
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Classroom Activity
  To Save a Nation and Its People
Poetry promotes discourse in the classroom and social action.
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  The ABCs of Bullying
Bullying often begins with verbal abuse. In this edition of the ABCs, Teaching Tolerance offers reso ...
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Teaching Tool
  Ida B. Wells
Outspoken, daring, uncompromising, she helped end lynching by exposing its horrors and injustice to ...
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  Beyond Borders: Arab Feminists Talk About Their Lives
Arab women from different nations discuss their oft-misunderstood role as workers and activists in a ...
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Current Event
  Suspicious Profiles
Recent events provide an ideal opportunity to address racial profiling in our streets, at the airpo ...
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Grant Summary
  Broadening Tiger Tolerance
Elementary teacher, Kris Uffelman, of Thomas School in Carbondale, Ill., received a $610 grant for m ...
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  It's Okay To Walk Away
High school teacher, Noel Lawson, in Bronx, NY, was awarded $2000 to provide curriculum and videos t ...
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  Proud To Be - Strengthening Our Culture, Pride, Respect
Elementary teacher Rachel Saucedo, who was introduced to Teaching Tolerance materials by her pre-ser ...
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  Know Thy Neighbor
A teacher at Zenith School in Kissimmee, Fla., received a $1,726 Teaching Tolerance grant for activi ...
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  Community Parade
A teacher in Buttonwillow, Calif., received a $1000 Teaching Tolerance grant to be used for puppets, ...
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  Peer Advocates Promote Understanding of Autism
Middle school (for autistic students) teacher in Pittsburgh, Pa., received an $800 TT grant for a Pe ...
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  Holocaust Museum Artwork
An eighth-grade language arts teacher from Terre Haute, Ind., received $1,100 Teaching Tolerance gra ...
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  Broadening Tiger Tolerance
An elementary teacher in Carbondale, Ill., received a $610 grant for multicultural books. Students w ...
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  A Cool Way to Explore and Celebrate Our Differences
Elizabeth Rainn has found a "cool" way to help her special needs students at Houston's Lantrip Eleme ...
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  Nurture the Nature Garden
Environmental educator, Melissa Vanek, of Holcomb Farm in West Granby, Conn., will use $516 to pair ...
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  De Fusco
The Camp Washington neighborhood in Cincinnati, Ohio, is a distressed white Appalachian and African ...
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  "Jazz it Up" Celebrating New Orleans in Texas
John DeFelice requested $2000 to launch a program designed to counter stereotypes about displaced st ...
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  Museum of Tolerance
Teacher Ena Volic, of Los Angeles' Grompers Middle School, requested $715 to expand the state-mandat ...
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  Civil Rights Movement Inspires Human Rights Book
A fifth grade teacher in Charlottesville, Va., received a $2,000 TT grant for resources to expand a ...
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Classroom Activity
  Pan de Muerto and More
A Day of the Dead Activity for the Early Grades
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Grant Summary
  Principal's 200 Club
Mary Lewis, an elementary school counselor at Boulton Elementary in Bountiful, Utah, received a $1,3 ...
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  NTA Globetrotters
Jennifer Cho's students rarely experience a world beyond the two inner-city projects most of the 98% ...
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  The Cinderella Project
Ann Marie McMahon received a $750 grant to expose her students to ethnic diversity not inherent in t ...
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  Puppets Teach Tolerance In Georgia
An elementary school counselor in Douglasville, Ga., received a $600 TT grant for a project allowing ...
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  Learning About History from Multiple Perspectives
A social studies teacher in Delmar, N.Y., received a $915 Teaching Tolerance grant to purchase resou ...
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  Learning Tolerance
Jack Marcellus, a school counselor at Highland Park School in Gloucester, N.J., received a $300 gran ...
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  Respecting Differences
Guidance educator Suzanne Rummel, of Narcoossee Community School in St. Cloud, Fla., received a $2,0 ...
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  Project Peace Harvest
Jennifer Metts, a guidance counselor at Hickory Tree Elementary in St. Cloud, Fla., received a $1,68 ...
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  Raising Culturally Diverse Kids
Elementary school counselor Carla Fessler received a $1,483 grant to increase her interculture under ...
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  Learning About Social Groups
Middle school teacher, Suzanne Osman received a $2000 grant to provide books and resource materials ...
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  Operation Together
Louise Marie Wills, of the Phillips Brooks House Association in Cambridge, Mass., received a $1,610 ...
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  Character Education in Motion
Stephanie DePoala, a librarian at Meadow Hill Exploration School in Newburgh, N.Y., received a $1000 ...
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  Holocaust Museum Artwork
Eighth grade language arts teacher Sherri Armstrong from Terre Haute, Ind., received a $1,100 Teachi ...
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Current Event
  All in the Family
What exactly constitutes a "family"? And what should educators know about various familial forms?
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Classroom Activity
  Crocodile and Ghost Bat Have a Hullabaloo
This tolerance tale can help early grades students understand the consequences of name-calling.
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Teaching Tool
  Lost Futures

A Quincy, Mass., middle school class met 12-year-old Iqbal Masih, who had been exploited and abus ...
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  We Need to Go to School

At age 5, Parwati was left in charge of his household every day from 5 a.m. till 11:30 p.m. At 9, ...
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  1621: A New Look at Thanksgiving

We know the myth of the first Thanksgiving, as invented by the English settlers who had decided t ...
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  We Were There, Too! Young People in U.S. History

Who are the most ignored players in American history? A new book suggests it might be young peopl ...
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  I Will Tell of My War Story

I Will Tell of My War Story ($26.95) collects the remarkable drawings of an anonymous Nati ...
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  More Spice Than Sugar: Poems About Feisty Females

"If you can tell me why the fen/ appears impossible, I then/ will tell you why I think that I/ ca ...
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  Sojourner Truth in Only Passing Through

Images of the flinty face of a daring woman who called her people from slavery to freedom accompa ...
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  Jessie De La Cruz: A Profile of a United Farm Worker

When Dolores Huerta, who helped lead the United Farm Workers of America, was called on to negotia ...
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  The Historical Cookbook of the American Negro
It’s one thing to learn how to cook the Emancipation Proclamation Breakfast Cake, okra gumbo or crac ...
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  The Spider Weaver

For many African Americans, Kente cloth -- with its patterns, colors and significance evolved fro ...
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  History Comes Home: Family Stories Across the Curriculum

Developing family history projects in the classroom requires considerable time and planning, but ...
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  Tenderheaded

African American writers tell hair stories in Tenderheaded ($25.95). There’s the heat of i ...
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  Mansa Musa

The medieval empire of Mali was once larger and richer than Egypt. In epic fashion, Mansa Musa ...
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  The Lamp, The Ice, and The Boat Called Fish

The Lamp, The Ice, and The Boat Called Fish ($15) recounts the true story of two Inupiaq h ...
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  Africa Is Not a Country

A snowy horseback ride in the mountains of Lesotho, a game of leapfrog on a Senegal beach, a nigh ...
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  Ancestors in the Americas
Part One of the two-part documentary Ancestors in the Americas ($265 each for institutions; d ...
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  Border: La Linea

Latina singer-songwriter Lila Downs knows what it costs to cross the border into the United State ...
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  Girl, You’re Amazing!

"Girl, you’re amazing! I’m glad that you’re you!" are the final lines of a memorable ne ...
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  The Math Book for Girls and Other Beings Who Count

Cynthia Pollak, a zoologist, measures spider silk in micrometers and finds that, per unit area, i ...
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  Born Blue

Born Blue ($17) tells the fictional story of a girl dealing with some particularly nightma ...
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  Where on Earth Is My Bagel?

In a Korean village, Yum Yung dreams of having a New York bagel, but all he knows is that a bagel ...
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  Come Out and Play
Come Out and Play ($6.95) and Back to School ($6.95), part of a series called It’s ...
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  Star Festival

Star Festival, like its namesake, weds cultural traditions with high technology. This set ...
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  How Big Is Your Circle?

Veteran disabilities activist and songwriter Jeff Moyer has long taught inclusion through arts ed ...
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  The Story of Colors/ La Historia de los Colores

Subcomandante Marcos, leader of the Zapatista rebels in Mexico, has written a children’s book wit ...
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  Leading for Diversity: How School Leaders Can Improve Interethnic Relations

Nurturing the cross-cultural skills of the school secretary, assessing the value of ethnic clubs, ...
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  Voices: Poetry and Art From Around the World

Voices: Poetry and Art From Around the World ($19.95) juxtaposes poetry and visual art fro ...
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  Prejudice Across America
Prejudice Across America ($18) documents the trek toward racial understanding by a teacher an ...
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  Words With Wings

Words With Wings ($16.95) pairs works by African American poets and artists in creative co ...
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Classroom Activity
  Brown v. Board: General Discussion Questions
Discuss the impact of Brown v. Board and the current state of segregation using articles from ...
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Current Event
  September 11th and After
This selection of resources can help. (2001)
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  Free Resource for Anti-Racist Work
Ignite classroom discussion and writing with this free book of quotes about race and racism.
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Grant Summary
  Building Rainbows
Adam Hackel, teacher and advisor in the Montgomery Township School District in Skillman, NJ, receive ...
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  Inner City Youth Produce Videos, Toys
A museum coordinator in Brooklyn, N.Y., received a $1,500 TT grant to increase community outreach in ...
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  Dialects, Stereotypes, and Tolerance
When two students, homeless after Hurricane Katrina, transferred into Valerie Bugni’s English class ...
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  High-Risk Girls Enhance N.Y. Community
A middle school special education teacher in Long Island City, N.Y., received a $1,000 TT grant for ...
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  A Tapestry of Difference
Edison Elementary principal James Martin received a $1,000 grant for a project using parental collab ...
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  Intergenerational Project Engages Art, Theater
A high school English teacher in Philadelphia, Penn., received a $1,000 TT grant to continue interge ...
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  Using Business Concepts to Increase Tolerance and Test Scores
When a student survey at Woodridge High School revealed African American students felt less respecte ...
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  Reading Improves Cultural Awareness
A school librarian for K-12 in Montpelier, N.D., a homogeneous town with a population of 200, receiv ...
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  Art Works
Debi Barrett-Hayes, a professor at Florida State University School in Tallahassee, Fla., received a ...
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  Peace Committee/ Peace Program
After reading about a school receiving national attention for implementing a peace project, Creswell ...
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  Multi-Cultural Peace, Unity Art On-Line
An elementary school art teacher in Miami Springs, Fla., received a $700 TT grant for a multidiscipl ...
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  Students Share Solutions with Lower Grades
A middle school counselor in Lake Havasu City, Ariz., received a $700 TT grant for workshops/confere ...
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  Learning Tolerance
Jack Marcellus, a school counselor at Highland Park School in Gloucester, N.J., received a $300 gran ...
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  Who's Behind the Mask?
Global Studies teacher, Mike Kendrick, of Westminster, S.C., received a $2,000 grant to support a ma ...
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  Celebrate Diversity!
Reno Valley Middle School art teacher Steve Lehmann was awarded $1,796 for cultural diversity projec ...
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  Family Focus on Children
Adam Elementary educator Donna Teel Harden, of Houston, Texas, received a $2,000 grant to fund a pro ...
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  Change Starts With Us!
A $2,000 grant will be used to foster positive, ongoing relationships between students by using crit ...
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  Peace Camp Cross-Cultural Sharing
Chris Piatkowski received a $500 grant for the Gwynedd Friends Meeting Peace Camp Cross-Cultural Sha ...
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  Peace Jam
Baptiste Educational Center teacher Stephanie Hill was awarded a $2,000 grant for Kansas City, Mo., ...
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  One World Project
Technology is the tool Nancy Gibson, a teacher in La Puente, Calif., will use to promote multicultur ...
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  TAP -- Tolerance Action Plan
Emmett O'Brien Technical High School in Ansonia, Conn., has been getting a lot of publicity because ...
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Current Event
  Afterthoughts: Questioning the Answers
Moving ahead from the 9/11 anniversary, educators can help students ask new questions about world e ...
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Grant Summary
  Color the World: Reaching New Understandings through Art and Literature
Ann Marie Gilligan, of Martin H. Taphagen Elementary, received an $860 grant to support a tolerance ...
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  Promoting Peace One Smile at a Time
Ormond Beach Elementary School teacher Ruth Bethea received a $368 grant to spread peace and harmony ...
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  Kids Celebrate all the Cultures in their Classroom
An elementary teacher in Columbus, Ohio, received a $1,000 TT grant to bring multicultural awareness ...
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  Character-Education Program
Kelli Loflin, superintendent of Elbert School District in Elbert, Colo., received a $1,295 grant to ...
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  KS Incorporates Daily Lessons in Character Education
A fourth grade teacher in Wellington, Kan., received a $1,000 TT grant for resources to incorporate ...
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  Union Elementary Project
Belleville, Ill., reading specialist Tammy Gramlich received a $2,000 grant for multicultural litera ...
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  Books to Bind
Adam Dovico, language arts teacher at Vienna Elementary School in Pfafftown, N.C., received a $1,000 ...
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  Our American Identity: A Study in Diversity
Rebecca Taylor-Sturdivant, a history teacher at Coffee County Central High in Manchester, Tenn., rec ...
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  Multicultural Education Project
Cathy Novokowsky, a fourth-grade teacher at Windermere Preparatory School in Windermere, Fla., recei ...
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  Anti-Bullies
Responding to a dramatic rise in bullying and gang-related issues at her school, Laura Buller, a tea ...
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  Summer Mediation Training Spreads Throughout School Year
An elementary school guidance counselor in Monticello, Minn., received a $1,000 TT grant for a peer ...
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  FL. HS Studies Holocaust, Modern Genocides
A high school history teacher in Lake Mary, Fla., received a $1,000 TT grant for resources to implem ...
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  Studying World History, Culture Unites Two Schools
A charter school history teacher in Tucson, Ariz., received a $2,000 TT grant for resources to devel ...
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  Multicultural Book Club Prompts Visits, Journals
An elementary school teacher in Hampton, Ga., received a $1,000 TT grant to expand the school’s Mult ...
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  Texas Peace Camp Forms Peace Clubs
An ESL teacher in Arlington, Texas, received a $1,600 TT grant for a Peace Camp that will bring toge ...
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  First Graders Learn from Master in Baby Blues Project
A first grade music teacher in Akron, Ohio, received a $1,000 TT grant for The Baby Blues project. ...
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  Responding to Special Ed. Taunting
A special education teacher in Brooklawn, New Jersey received a $1,500 Teaching Tolerance grant to u ...
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  Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School
Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School social studies teacher Daniella Garran received a $739 Teaching T ...
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  Desert Connections
Desert View High School counselor, George Meisch, received a $2000 grant that will be used by the Tu ...
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  Multicultural Folklore Project
An elementary teacher in a Cincinnati, Ohio school where animosity exists between African Americans ...
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  Diversity Awareness through Drama
Nora Matthews received a $2000 grant to bring together socio-economically diverse youth groups to di ...
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Classroom Activity
  A Question of Class
A media journal project exposes classism in contemporary politics.
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Current Event
  Mix It Up Research:
Diverse Student Body Does Not Guarantee Integrated Friendships

New study offers insights into best practices for breaking down social barriers.
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Classroom Activity
  Using 'Objects' to Object to Objectification
Math equations add up to help teach tolerance
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Current Event
  On the Nuclear Brink
History sheds light on high-stakes decision-making.
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  "I pledge allegiance ...
Building Citizenship and Democracy (2001)
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  Make Metaphor No More?
Sportspeople Rethink Their Words of War (2001)
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  One Nation -- One Language?
Today, more U.S. residents than ever are speaking a language different from English when they are a ...
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  Pencils, Not Missiles
The Central Asia Institute advocates for the inclusion of education in the international "anti-terro ...
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  Fla. School Continues to Debate GSA Club
Teaching Tolerance fellow, Sara Cohan, says Escambia High is ignoring the needs of gay students (200 ...
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  Veiled in Controversy
Many girls and women in the U.S. have new concerns about wearing distinctively Muslim garments.
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  A New Day for Homeless Students
Law closes door on homeless-only schools, opens door to public education
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  Laramie Project Debut on HBO
Based on the award-winning play, this new film offers viewers an opportunity to explore homophobia a ...
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  Ethnicity and the Virginia Tech Shootings
April 23, 2007 – While many Korean Americans waited for a backlash against their community following ...
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  The Battle of Spanish Fork
1997: A gay Utah educator fights for her right to teach.
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  Crossing the Line
Teachers demonstrate the right to challenge U.S. foreign policy. (December 2002)
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  Women Sustaining the American Spirit: National Women’s History Month
March is a time to remember the accomplishments of past women and set goals to make gender equity a ...
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  OP-ED: Creationists Evolve
Columnist Bill Berkowitz explores the politics behind the kinder, gentler "intelligent design" theor ...
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  That's a Family!
Elementary educators use the study of families to teach diversity.
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  April is National Poetry Month!
Allow poetry to come alive in your classroom this month with these helpful poetry resources.
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  Where Mel Gibson Got His Anti-Semitism
Feb. 12, 2007 -- A new report sheds light on what may be the nation's largest network of anti-Semite ...
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Classroom Activity
  Fear in the Eyes
Students with anxiety disorders wonder, "Will I ever fit in?"
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  Black History Bee
Black History Month culminates in a school wide Black History Bee in this CA. middle school.
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  Holiday Charity: A Math Activity About Poverty
The holiday season often marks the launch of toy and canned food drives in schools. Use this activit ...
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  The ABCs of Black History Month
This year, in the face of increasing disparities, it is more important than ever that educators help ...
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Grant Summary
  Video Project to Focus on Intolerance in Action
A middle school teacher in Cincinnati, Ohio received a $1,000 TT grant for a student produced video ...
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Classroom Activity
  Twelve Lines That Changed the World
A new film sheds light on the historic and contemporary significance of the classic anti-lynching so ...
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Grant Summary
  Disabilities awareness project funded
A high school teacher in Miranda, Calif., received a $1,000 grant for a disabilities awareness proje ...
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Classroom Activity
  The ABCs of Size Bias
With summer break just around the corner, many students are taking a hard look at their bodies. Most ...
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Parent Guide
  Hate on the Internet
Developed by the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project, "Hate on the Internet" will wal ...
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Classroom Activity
  The ABCs of Whiteness and Anti-Racism
This edition of The ABCs (Anti-Bias Classroom) equips educators with tools and resources to help whi ...
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Grant Summary
  Peer Mentor Program for Students with and without Disabilities
Laura Grassmann of Spring View Middle School in Rocklin, Cal., received a $1,500 grant for a peer-me ...
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Classroom Activity
  How Stereotypes Undermine Test Scores
Subtle changes in test environments can improve standardized test scores among students of color and ...
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  Disability Awareness: We're In It Together
Differently-abled students put on a play and learn about acceptance, too.
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Grant Summary
  Negative media leads teacher to diversity project
An elementary language development teacher in Buttonwillow, Calif., who is motivated by negative med ...
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  Grant funds reading curriculum enhancements
An elementary school teacher in Thomasboro, Ill., received a $982 grant for multicultural resources ...
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  Puppets used to break down stereotypes
An elementary school guidance counselor in Wesley Chapel, Fla., received a $1,995 grant for a charac ...
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  Celebrate Diversity Design Contest
A recent survey at Mahopac High School in Mahopac, NY, revealed more than 50% of students identify r ...
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Teaching Tool
  Magic Windows
Magic Windows ($15.95) of cut-paper art display Aztec images and scenes from the family life ...
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  The Animals of the Chinese Zodiac
?j>apsaras, flying women with magical powers, are chosen to select 12 animals for Buddha in th ...
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  Barefoot Heart
Beginning with early memories of a "five-year-old in a faded dress, with bare feet, from the Mexican ...
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  The Mats
Father's return from a routine inspection trip is special when he brings each member of Marcelina's ...
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  A World of Faith
Each page in A World of Faith ($19.95) offers an accurate glimpse of one religious group's or ...
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  Wake Up, World!
Wake Up, World! ($16.95) spans one day in the life of eight children in eight different count ...
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Magazine Article
  Survey Says?
Teaching Tolerance asks educators about the social climate of their classrooms
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  Tipi Technology
Student teachers in Washington state experiment with multicultural science
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Teaching Tool
  Invisible Children in the Society and in the Schools
Homeless children, children with AIDS, adjudicated girls, immigrant children, urban Appalachian chil ...
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Current Event
  Bodily Harm
The mass media presents distorted images of women's bodies. Help your students "Turn Beauty Inside O ...
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Classroom Activity
  What Do Halloween Costumes Say?
This activity, adaptable across grades, is designed to help students look critically at the Hallowee ...
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Grant Summary
  Cultural Diversity Celebrated Through Theater, Pen Pals
An elementary school teacher in Frederic, Wis., received a $704 TT grant for field trips that will i ...
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  Daily Affirmations for Character Education Written in English/Spanish
An elementary resource specialist in Turlock, Calif., received a $1,000 TT grant to publish a dual l ...
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  High-risk Youths Learn Conflict Resolution, Anger Management
The constable’s office in Springtown, Pa., received a $740 TT grant for resources to implement a 10- ...
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  Different Elementary Schools Work on Community Project Together
A program director in Atlanta, Ga., received a $1,400 TT grant for a school exchange involving two e ...
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  Special Education Class Benefits from Role-playing, Conflict Resolution
A high school teacher in Atchison, Kan., received an $800 TT grant for resources to implement a tole ...
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  Conflict-Resolution Taught in Montgomery, Ala.
An elementary school guidance counselor in Montgomery, Ala., received a $1,200 TT grant for resource ...
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  Civil Rights Tour Documented in Magazine
An alternative school teacher in Albany, N.Y., received a $1,000 TT grant for a Civil Rights tour by ...
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  Language, Art Used in School Wide Diversity Project
An elementary school teacher in Bismarck, N.D., received a $1,200 TT grant for multicultural resourc ...
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  Special Needs Students Join Church Summer Camp
A volunteer for a Peace Camp that is sponsored by a coalition of six churches in West Bend, Wis., re ...
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  Nation's First Elementary-University Magnet Works for Community
A teacher in St. Paul, Minn., at the first elementary-university collaborative magnet school in the ...
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  Teachers Book Club Spurs Anti-Racism Discussions in Classrooms
A high school teacher in Athens, Ga., received a $1,000 TT grant for multicultural resources to begi ...
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  Library Expands Tolerance Materials
A middle school teacher in Tracy, Calif., received a $1,000 TT grant for tolerance-related resources ...
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  Student Exchange, Special Projects Encourage Respect for Diversity
A kindergarten teacher in Roanoke, Va., received a $1,000 TT grant for a school-wide Peaceable Schoo ...
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  Art Used to Explore All Aspects of Peace Works
A principal in Aurora, Ind., received a $624 TT grant for resources to continue the Peace Works Prog ...
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  Girls Gather to Honor Diversity in Communities, Schools
The executive director for an after-school program in Chicago, Ill., received an $800 TT grant for a ...
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  Puppets Encourage Character for High Risk Students
An elementary school teacher in Weirsdale, Fla., received a $711 TT grant for an interdisciplinary m ...
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  Students to Create Diversity Symbols
The director of the Respect Diversity Foundation (RFD) in Edmond, Okla., received a $1,000 TT grant ...
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  Seminar Teaches Skills in Expressing Beliefs
A middle school teacher in Greenville, Tenn., received a $1,000 TT grant for resources to conduct So ...
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  Diversity Broadened Through Survey, Publishing Project
A professor at Western Michigan University, a Communicating Common Ground (CCG) site in Kalamazoo, M ...
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  Cooking, Books Bond Students with Special Ed. Students
A special education teacher in Little Rock, Ark., received a $712 TT grant for a partnering program ...
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  Club, Peace Quilt Promotes Equality
A middle school teacher in Johnson City, N.Y., received a $500 TT grant for a school club project de ...
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  Student Theater Performance Highlights Workplace Conflicts
The director of the American Labor Museum on Haledon, N.J., received a $1,000 TT grant for an after- ...
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  Ancestral Trails Connects Pioneers, Students
An elementary school teacher in Minneapolis, Minn., received a $1,000 TT grant for conferences/works ...
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  Hate Crime Inmates Study Cultural Awareness
An adult education director in Huntsville, Texas, received a $1,000 TT grant to expand a mandatory c ...
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  Students, Faculty Benefit from School-wide Tolerance Activities
An elementary school teacher in Glenside, Pa., received a $1,000 TT grant to continue tolerance-rela ...
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  Middle School Responds to Community Racism
A homogeneous junior/senior high school in Lanesville, Indiana received a $1,020 Teaching Tolerance ...
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Current Event
  Librarians Challenge Internet Filtering
The lawsuit to test the constitutionality of forced filtering in libraries and schools is automatica ...
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Teaching Tool
  Learning to Play, Playing to Learn: Games and Activities to Teach Sharing, Caring, and Compromise
With an estimated 700 acts of aggression committed on a typical playground each hour, Learning to ...
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Current Event
  In Darkness Light
Reflections and resources to mark the first anniversary of September 11th.
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  Title IX and Gender Equality
Advocates worry that the Department of Justice may weaken the law.
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Magazine Article
  The Names On The Board
An Ohio teacher dares students to envision a new community
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Classroom Activity
  'The Capacity for Connection'
In this special Q & A, educators Louise Derman-Sparks and Patricia G. Ramsey, authors of the newly r ...
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Magazine Article
  ¡Vámonos!
Mexican and U.S. students look both ways and cross the border.
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Current Event
  June 20th is World Refugee Day!
Activities and events will be held around the world to draw attention to the ongoing plight of refug ...
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  Asian Americans In Focus
Learn more about Asian American youth and the contemporary perceptions -- and misperceptions -- of A ...
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Grant Summary
  Multiage Interactions for Multicultural Understanding
An elementary guidance counselor in a culturally homogeneous community in Franconia, N.H., received ...
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Classroom Activity
  The Holiday 'Dilemma'
Experts offer strategies for creating inclusive and meaningful holiday experiences in school.
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Teaching Tool
  Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type

When the cows in the barn feel cold and Farmer Brown will not give them blankets, they have a sec ...
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  Racism in the Classroom: Case Studies
Racism in the Classroom: Case Studies ($22, $14.40 for ACEI members) challenges educators to ...
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Classroom Activity
  Flag Day
The American flag illustrates individuality in this lesson
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Magazine Article
  Break the Chain
A civil rights lawyer contemplates hate in schools.
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  Just Rewards
Positive discipline can teach students self-respect and empathy.
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Parent Guide
  VoteQuest
VoteQuest is an interactive game that will teach your children about the struggle for women's voting ...
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Grant Summary
  Staff, Students Trained in Violence Prevention
An alternative school teacher in Franklin, Pa. received a $545 TT grant for a violence prevention pr ...
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  Cultural Diversity Program Concludes with School Mural
An elementary teacher in Chalmette, La., received a $1,200 TT grant for resources to implement a cul ...
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  Staff Trained in Character Education
A second grade teacher in Colorado Springs, Colo., received a $1,000 TT grant for a character educat ...
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  Community Activities Bridge Language Barriers
A middle school teacher in Madison, Wis., received a $500 TT grant to expand a teambuilding curricul ...
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  Multicultural Art Project Promotes Tolerance
A K-12 school counselor in a Glencoe, Pa., school that has a large Native American population receiv ...
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  Literature Circle Presentations Include Tolerance Themes
An elementary school teacher in El Cajon, Calif., received a $1,000 TT grant for tolerance-related r ...
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  Honor Students, Special Ed and Senior Citizens Unite
A high school English teacher in Brighton, Colo., received a $1,200 TT grant for disability awarene ...
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  Tolerance Illustrations Displayed in Town, Web
A middle magnet school teacher in Philadelphia, Penn., received a $1,000 TT grant for a yearlong cul ...
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  Treatment Center for Students Enhances Multicultural Resources
A media specialist in a Tampa Fla., residential treatment center for students with emotional problem ...
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  Multicultural Literature in Grade School Shared
A 6th grade teacher in Morgan, Utah received a $394 TT grant for multicultural literature. The liter ...
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  Teachers Trained to Decrease Achievement Gap
A fifth grade teacher in Denver, N.C., received a $175 TT grant for a staff development project. Tea ...
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  Children's Choir Focuses on Ethnic Folk Music
An elementary school music teacher in Fort Leavenworth, Kan., received a $1,000 TT grant for resourc ...
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  Intolerance Within Current Events Studied
A teacher in a homogeneous elementary school in Palo Alto, Calif., received a $1,000 TT grant for a ...
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  A Literacy Café of Tolerance Books Created
An elementary school teacher in Portland, Ore., received a $1,200 TT grant for resources to create a ...
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  Role-play, Music Highlight Equity Issues
An elementary school music teacher in Catlettsburg, Ky., received a $160 TT grant for a music projec ...
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  Students Share Multicultural Stories with Preschoolers
A teacher in a Nevada, Mo., technical school received a $1,000 TT grant for a student-operated multi ...
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  Music Teaches Manners, Values
An elementary school music teacher in Winter Haven, Fla., received a $1,000 TT grant for an instrume ...
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  Sensitivity Training, Literature Addresses Gay, Lesbian Issues
A high school communication arts teacher in Smithville, Mo., received a $1,000 TT grant for literatu ...
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  Mural Based on A Place at the Table
A middle school history teacher in a Peacham, Vt. received a $600 TT grant for a mural project to cu ...
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  Anti-bullying Program Includes Staff, Parent Material
An elementary school adjustment counselor in Dalton, Mass., received a $640 TT grant for a comprehen ...
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  Peacemaking Skills Incorporated Into Daily Lessons
An elementary school teacher in Greenacres, Fla., received a $1,000 TT grant to supplement an existi ...
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  Diversity Task Force Responds to Ethnic Violence
A counselor in a Bayonne, N.J., school district where 50 languages are represented and ethnic violen ...
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  Students Honor Holocaust Survivors
A high school English teacher in Martinsville, Ind., received a $700 TT grant to expand a Holocaust ...
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  Violence Prevention Unit Encourages Respect
An elementary school teacher in a Marengo, Iowa, school where violence has escalated received a $1,0 ...
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  Reading, Writing and Guests for Native American Students
An English teacher in a Glenpool, Okla., alternative school with a predominantly Native American pop ...
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  Moving Toward Respect Cirriculum Created
A high school English teacher in Faribault, Minn., received a $1,000 TT grant for workshops that inc ...
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  Parents Support School Lessons in Tolerance
A guidance counselor in a homogeneous elementary school in Farmington, Utah, received a $1,000 TT gr ...
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  Corwin Kronenberg Discipline Model Extended in Minn.
An elementary school principal in Owatonna, Minn., received a $1,000 TT grant for resources to exten ...
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  57 Elementary Schools Study Holocaust
The assistant superintendent for the Paterson Diocesan Schools in Clifton, N.J., received a $1,000 T ...
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  Historical Intolerance Studied
An alternative school diversity coordinator in an Eagan, Minn., high school where 50 nationalities a ...
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  Church, Parents Join In Diversity Quilt Project
An elementary school teacher in Hartman, Ark., received a $1,000 TT grant for literature that will b ...
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  PeaceWorks in Place for Students, Teachers
An elementary school counselor in Bogart, Ga., received a $1,000 TT grant for the PeaceWorks curricu ...
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  Learning English Through Literature, Local History
A fifth grade teacher in Winooski, Vt., received a $1,000 TT grant for multicultural resources to en ...
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  Intergenerational Reading Project Includes Song
A second grade teacher in Nokomis, Fla., received a $1,500 TT grant for an intergenerational reading ...
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  Death Penalty, Hate Crimes Examined
A high school English teacher in New Iberia, La., received a $500 TT grant for curriculum resources. ...
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  Real-life Intolerance Examples Inspire Tolerance Performance
A middle school English teacher in Collins, Miss., received a $1,096 TT grant for curriculum resourc ...
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  Six Pillars of Character Education Studied
A first grade teacher in Selmer, Tenn., received a $1,300 TT grant for resources to implement a coun ...
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  Peer Mediators Tackle Harassment Issues
A middle school counselor in Mount Airy, N.C., received a $500 TT grant for a peer mediation project ...
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  Threatening Note Inspires Culture Awareness Club
An assistant principal in a Jacksonville, Ark., high school received a $970 TT grant to initiate a C ...
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  Writing Plays, Poems, Stories Reflect Lessons Learned
A K-8 school librarian in a rural Flintville, Tenn., school received a $1,000 TT grant for tolerance ...
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  Novels Teach Ethnic, Economic Conflicts
A high school language arts teacher in Grain Valley, Mo., received a $1,000 TT grant for a literatur ...
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  High School Students Publish Anthology
A high school English teacher in Lafayette, La., received a $1,000 TT grant for a peer mentoring pro ...
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  School Clubs, Faculty Attend Diversity Workshops
A high school ESL teacher in Phoenix, Ariz., received a $1,000 TT grant for diversity workshops/conf ...
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  Survey First Step in Violence Prevention Program
The education director for a Girls and Boys Club received a $1,000 TT grant for a violence preventio ...
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Classroom Activity
  Ladder of Prejudice
Examining the escalation from name-calling to genocide
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Grant Summary
  Nonviolent strategies for civil rights studied
A junior high school teacher in Montgomery, Ala., received a $1,000 grant for a Civil Rights project ...
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Classroom Activity
  Nursery Rhyme Raps!
Students will brainstorm a social skill or other issue they want to address, infuse the events of a ...
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  Freedom's Main Line
Learn how activists in Louisville, Kentucky successfully campaigned against segregated streetcars in ...
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Magazine Article
  Horror and Hope
Students take a hard look at exclusion.
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Classroom Activity
  Brown v. Board: A New Milestone Decade
Three ways to encourage students to continue the struggle for equality and justice in the U.S.
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Teaching Tool
  Start Seeing Diversity
Create a responsive classroom with this practical framework developed by teachers at Washington-Beec ...
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  The GLSEN Lunchbox
The GLSEN Lunchbox ($129.95) is an actual lunchbox containing a comprehensive training progra ...
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Magazine Article
  Colorful Stories
A Tennessee teacher finds ways to broaden children's perspectives in a monocultural community.
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Teaching Tool
  American Indian Stereotypes in the World of Children
American Indian Stereotypes in the World of Children ($32.50) exposes the multitude of myths ...
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Classroom Activity
  What Responsibilities Accompany Our Rights?
This lesson explores the importance of citizens fulfilling responsibilities in order to protect thei ...
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Current Event
  School Stories
Nationwide, teachers and students have long been seeking to bridge the boundaries that separate us.
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  Being an Effective Ally
Tips for serving as a skillful student activist advisor.
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  Lawmakers Take Aim at Cyberbullying
Feb. 26, 2007 -- Curbing online harassment will require cooperation among schools, parents and stude ...
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Classroom Activity
  Critical Equations
A Rhode Island math teacher offers a new model for analyzing social issues.
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Teaching Tool
  Flowers from Mariko
Following their relocation and internment during World War II, Japanese Americans faced the daunting ...
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  Learning About Equal Rights From the Life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The 107th justice of the United States Supreme Court is a hero to seekers of equal rights. Learni ...
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  The Reader’s Companion to U.S. Women’s History
"How crucial to view this country as if women mattered," writes Gloria Steinem in the introduction t ...
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  Winona LaDuke: Restoring Land and Culture in Native America
Rarely do so many vital issues converge as in the life and work of Winona LaDuke, the Native America ...
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  That’s a Family!
The video That’s a Family! ($75 schools, $150 colleges and universities) and accompanying tea ...
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  Celebration of Family
"All I really need is a song in my heart and love in my family" sings musical artist Raffi, setting ...
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  Out of the Closet, Into Our Hearts
For many people who are gay or lesbian, "coming out" is a liberating and transformative experience n ...
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  The Middle East in Transition
The Middle East in Transition ($125 non-educators, $75 academics) is a comprehensive curricul ...
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  Scarves of Many Colors: Muslim Women and the Veil
Women’s role in Islam is often misrepresented outside Muslim cultures. Scarves of Many Colors: Mu ...
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  Teaching About Islam and Muslims in the Public School Classroom: A Handbook for Educators
From basic information about family life in Muslim homes to lists of resources and organizations tha ...
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  Promises
The stunning documentary film Promises ($295) makes one believe that peace in the Middle East ...
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  Hostile Hallways
In its report Hostile Hallways ($9.95), the American Association of University Women (AAUW) d ...
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  Date Rape: Behind Closed Doors
Date Rape: Behind Closed Doors ($79.95) is an in-depth video that treats this often-misunders ...
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  In Other Words and One of Them
In a climate where the majority of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered students face physical a ...
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  The Peace Corps
The Peace Corps ($11.95 for educators) opens the world of volunteerism to young people. This ...
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  A Castle on Viola Street
The concept of "sweat equity" promoted by Habitat for Humanity and similar programs has helped thous ...
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  The United Nations: Come Along With Me!
Nane Annan, wife of United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, has created a charming story about ...
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  Seeing Through Maps
As a practical skill, map-reading holds a time-honored place in the social studies curriculum. But w ...
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  Rethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World
Handouts for students, background on the issues, and additional resources are all included in Ret ...
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  The Skin That We Speak
Lisa Delpit, author of Other People’s Children,, has co-edited a new book detailing the inter ...
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  And Still We Speak ... Stories of Communities Sustaining and Reclaiming Language and Culture
Immigrants to the United States often try to find a balance between the traditions and language of t ...
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  Using Multicultural Literature to Teach K-4 Social Studies
Using Multicultural Literature to Teach K-4 Social Studies ($25.95) approaches the integratio ...
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  Promoting a Global Community Through Multicultural Literature
Divided into units ranging from culture to homelessness, Promoting a Global Community Through Mul ...
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  The Spirit That Moves Us
Music, art and literature are the vehicles that reveal the horror of the Holocaust to students in Go

  Every Girl Tells a Story
The Girls Scouts of America produced Every Girl Tells a Story ($19.95), an inspirational coll ...
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  Great Books For Girls
In Great Books For Girls ($14.95), Kathleen Odean, the current chair of the 2002 Newberry Awa ...
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  Cusp
On the edge between childhood and thirteen years stands Alice, the main character in Cusp (Re ...
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  Cool Women, Hot Jobs…and how you can go for it, too!
A great resource in any middle or high school collection, Cool Women, Hot Jobs…and how you can go ...
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  Free to be you and me
"Free to be you and me" was a mantra of children raised in the ’70s to the snappy rhythms of Marlo T ...
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  The Pigman
John and Lorraine, two teenagers who don’t shy away from trouble, meet a man who will change their d ...
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  Lisa Bright and Dark
Though some of its pop culture allusions are now dated, the novel Lisa Bright and Dark ($5.9 ...
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Current Event
  An Educator's View of Mix It Up
A Kansas school rises to the challenge of crossing social boundaries during lunch.
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  Teaching Tolerance Nominated for Education Awards
April 17, 2007 –- The Association of Educational Publishers' (AEP) has nominated Teaching Tolerance ...
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  Mental Illness and War
March 13, 2007 -- A new report indicates that nearly a third of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans come h ...
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Grant Summary
  Respecting Differences Becomes Yearlong Unit
A 7th grade communicative arts teacher in Appleton, Wis., received a $1,200 TT grant for multicultur ...
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  Students Review Multicultural Books on Morning Announcements
An 8th grade history teacher in a Miami, Fla., school where there is discord between African America ...
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  Tolerance Heroes Honored
A high school English teacher in Dillon, S.C., received a $1,000 TT grant for resources to promote m ...
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  Internet Used as Tool for Cross-Classroom Projects
A 3rd grade teacher in West Richland, Wash., received a $983 TT grant for support materials to imple ...
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  Native Americans Influence Conflict Resolution Studies
A high school principal in Aurora, Colo., received a $1,000 TT grant to establish a Peacemaker Court ...
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  Alabama School Partners With Two Ireland Schools
A 3rd grade teacher in Madison, Ala., received a $1,000 TT grant to implement an interdisciplinary a ...
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  Students Visit with Holocaust Survivors
A 5th grade teacher in Collins, Miss., received an $889 TT grant to expand a Holocaust unit. The pr ...
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  Character Education Taught to Students, by Students
An elementary school teacher in Columbia, S.C., received a $1,000 TT grant for resources to implemen ...
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  Diversity Picture Books Inspire Performances
An elementary school counselor in Montpelier, Vt., received a $500 TT grant for a professional devel ...
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  Peace Studied Throughout School, Community
An elementary school guidance counselor in Kaysville, Utah, received a $1,000 TT grant for curriculu ...
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  Mock Trials Enhance Multicultural Studies
A high school social studies teacher in Wilbraham, Mass., received a $1929 TT grant for resources to ...
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Current Event
  Summer Vocations
Where would you like to study tolerance in the summer of 2003?
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Classroom Activity
  Street Justice
An excerpt from Teaching Tolerance's "The Shadow of Hate," a teaching kit for the middle and upper g ...
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  The Poverty Project
Help students remove prejudices they might have and dispel public myths regarding the "poor" through ...
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  Childhood Losses
How can a teacher respond to childhood grief?
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  Journaling History: Sacagawea and York
Activity for grades 8-12.
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Current Event
  MIX IT UP: Current Research
Recent research about self-segregation, cliques and related issues.
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Teaching Tool
  Brave Charlotte
Young children will be enchanted by Anu Stohner's Brave Charlotte ($16.95), a sheep that is d ...
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Classroom Activity
  The ABCs of Service-Learning
As classrooms across the country prepare for Make a Difference Day on Oct. 28, Teaching Tolerance of ...
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Current Event
  College Confronts Class Privilege
March 19, 2007 -- On Monday, Davidson College became the first liberal arts college in the nation to ...
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Grant Summary
  Performance Brings Underground Railroad To Life
An elementary school teacher in Cleveland, Ohio, received a $1,000 TT grant for students to experien ...
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  Community Provides First-Hand Accounts of Intolerance
An elementary school teacher in Hatfield, Ark., received a $400 TT grant to expand a character educa ...
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  Middle Eastern Poetry Becomes Theater Tool
A middle school drama teacher in Sebastopol, Calif., received a $416 TT grant for resources to expan ...
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  Students, Immigrants Enjoy Cultural Exchange Program
A teacher in a Cincinnati, Ohio, school that has a population of low-income African American and Whi ...
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  Student-Created Museum Showcases Human Rights Projects
A high school teacher in a Sierra Vista, Ariz., school located near the Mexican border — an area tha ...
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  Courtyard Transformed Into Conflict Resolution Station
An elementary school guidance counselor in Flemington, N.J., received a $1,000 TT grant to enhance a ...
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  Hispanic Community Embraces Literature
A teacher in an El Paso, Texas, high school that has a 98 percent Hispanic population received a $1, ...
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  Refugee Students Create Tolerance Mural
An after-school program teacher for Refugee Family Services in Clarkston, Ga., received a $1,000 TT ...
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  Literature Key in Cultural Diversity Studies
A middle school teacher in N. Stonington, Conn., a town that is historically homogeneous, received a ...
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  Truth in History Revealed
A elementary school counselor in Savannah, Tenn., received a $1,000 TT grant for resources that will ...
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  Students Perform Ethnic Dances
An elementary school teacher in Hampton, Ga., received a $1,000 TT grant to support a yearlong multi ...
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  Drama Club Acts For Tolerance
A middle school teacher in N. Charleston, S.C., received a $1,000 TT grant for an anti-bias/prejudic ...
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  Schools Team Up to Create Holocaust Chest
A professor at Northwest Missouri State University (a CCG site) in Maryville, Mo., received a $1,000 ...
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  Intergeneration Garden Created
An elementary school teacher in Howell, N.J., received a $1,000 TT grant for an outdoor flower/plant ...
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Current Event
  LGBT Online Resources
Need some education on gay issues in school? Check out this collection of online resources we've com ...
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Classroom Activity
  Browder v. Gayle: The Women Before Rosa Parks
Learn about the legal battle that made the Montgomery Bus Boycott successful.
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Current Event
  CBS Laughs at Rural America
Join a campaign to protest the network's new reality show.
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  Next Veto: Hate Crime Bill?
May 7, 2007 –- A bill that would expand federal hate-crime protections to gay, lesbian, bisexual and ...
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Classroom Activity
  Holding Onto Heritage: Native Whale Hunts & Diversity
In this activity, students will explore diverse points of view about the 1999 Makah whale hunt and d ...
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  Thanksgiving Mourning
In this activity, students will explore the perspectives of two Native American authors about the me ...
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Teaching Tool
  Six Vietnamese Poets
"Last night a bomb exploded on the veranda," begins one poem in Six Vietnamese Poets Go

  Open Gate
The Haitian poems in Open Gate ($15.95), in their original Creole with English translations, ...
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  A Thousand Peaks: Poems from China
A Thousand Peaks: Poems from China ($19.95) introduces multiple dimensions of Chinese history ...
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  Visiting Langston
"Ask me where I am from/ I’ll say Harlem world," says the girl in her pink shirt on her wa ...
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  Learning to Swim
The poems in Learning to Swim ($14.95) carry a double message: Silence is the servant of sexu ...
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  Hatshepsut, His Majesty, Herself
As an illustrated book for younger readers, Hatshepsut, His Majesty, Herself ($17) is a remar ...
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  Freedom Like Sunlight: Praise-songs for Black Americans
Familiar African American historical role models — from Sojourner Truth to Wilma Rudolph — take on a ...
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  Gandhi
Adapting the elegant style of traditional Indian miniature painting to modern subject matter, Gan ...
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  In the Spirit of Martin
The companion book to a traveling Smithsonian Institution exhibit of the same title, In the Spiri ...
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  From My People: 400 Years of African American Folklore
Author Daryl Cumber Dance knows there is some truth to the folk expression "You’ve got to go there t ...
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  Powerful Days: The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore
The Civil Rights Movements was well documented through photography. One of the great visual chronicl ...
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  The Other America
A welcome companion to popular textbooks, The Other America ($19) explores a side of U.S. his ...
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  Lessons From Mother Earth
A grandmother teaches her granddaughter the practical as well as the spiritual rewards of respecting ...
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  Shingebiss: An Ojibwe Legend
Luminous woodcuts highlight the resourceful theme of Shingebiss: An Ojibwe Legend ($16), the ...
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  Navajo Long Walk
Abenaki storyteller Joseph Bruchac and Navajo artist Shonto Begay pool their talents and their visio ...
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  Holly’s Secret
When 12-year-old Holly moves to a new town, she assumes a new identity so no one will find out she h ...
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  Love Rules
Lynn and Kit are "spirit sisters" for life in Love Rules ($9.95). They have survive ...
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  Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology
Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology ($11.95) showcases the dreams, fe ...
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  Making A Difference in the Lives of Bilingual Children
As political, legal and funding challenges diminish the reach of bilingual education programs, the n ...
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  Students at Risk: Solutions to Classroom Challenges
Mainstreaming and other policies have opened many regular classrooms to students with disabilities, ...
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  The Democracy Reader
Editor Sondra Myers wants The Democracy Reader ($25.95) to convey one point in particular: De ...
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  Building a Legacy: Women in Social Education 1784-1984
Building a Legacy: Women in Social Education 1784-1984 ($15 member, $22 non-member), from the ...
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  Peace
Of the many publications spawned by the events of September 11, 2001, Peace ($9.99) finds a d ...
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  The Genocide Factor
While the introductions to the four videos in The Genocide Factor (single episode $29.95, ser ...
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  Refugee Boy
Half Ethiopian and half Eritrean, young Alem finds his world torn in two when the northeast African ...
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Magazine Article
  Walk This Way
Communication majors at Hampden-Sydney College help Prince Edward County, Va., middle schoolers rese ...
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  A Still Point in a Turning World
One South Texas school district fights for stability in the lives of homeless children.
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  Open House
Memphis families remodel the concept of home schooling.
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  Unwelcome Advances
A Florida teenager finds school officials apathetic on sexual harassment.
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  "We Don't Use That Language Anymore"
A leadership program helps Maine students confront the culture of verbal abuse.
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  What If?
The editor of Teaching Tolerance explores the ins and outs of social boundaries at school.
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Grant Summary
  Local Teens Create PSA's for Tolerance
The director of Lighthouse for Youth Media, a nonprofit organization in Charlottesville, Va., receiv ...
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Current Event
  What’s Wrong With This Picture?
How does your school yearbook measure up on equity and respect?
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Teaching Tool
  Embracing Race: Why We Need Race-Conscious Education Policy
As the affirmative action debate continues on university campuses and in the judicial system, educat ...
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Grant Summary
  High-risk Students Receive Leadership Training
A high school teacher in Austin, Texas, received a $1,000 TT grant for resources to implement a nine ...
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  College, H.S. Students Partner for Black Achievers Program
A communications professor at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., received a $610 TT grant for a ...
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  "Lost Boys" Share Stories, Art with Ga. Students
An elementary school teacher in Jasper, Ga., received a $1,000 TT grant for a character education/vi ...
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  High-risk, Gifted Students Share Perennial Garder
An environmental education teacher in Budd Lake, N.J., received a $1,000 TT for a perennial friendsh ...
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  Diverse Spiritual Traditions Honored
An instructional music teacher in Dubuque, Iowa, received a $1,000 TT grant for a writing/publishing ...
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  Intergenerational Theater Entertains Young Audiences
A Grants Pass, Ore., alternative school teacher received a $900 TT grant for a theater project of st ...
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  Dr. King Celebration Concludes Yearlong Tolerance Project
A Corvallis, Ore., teacher received a $500 TT grant for a series of activities to promote tolerance ...
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  'Lost' African American cemetery restored in Va.
A middle magnet school teacher in Danville, Va., received a $1,000 TT grant to continue restoration ...
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  Homelessness Project Awakens Middle School to Intolerance
A middle school teacher in an Azusa, Calif., school that is predominantly Hispanic and is experienci ...
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  Music Shared Between African, Maine
A middle school teacher in Portland, Maine, received a $ 1,000 TT grant to support a joint musical p ...
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Teaching Tool
  Holocaust Handbook
The classroom strategies and resource suggestions in Holocaust Handbook for Teachers ($26.95) ...
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Current Event
  Teaching Tolerance Wins Prestigious Education Awards
June 13, 2007 -– The Association of Educational Publishers honors Teaching Tolerance with its highes ...
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Classroom Activity
  Slavery in Sudan
Children working in the classroom to end slavery are rewarded by a visit from a recently escaped Sud ...
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  Going to Bat for Girls
In celebration of Title IX's 30th anniversary, we highlight one family's struggle to realize the pro ...
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  Classroom Activists: How Service-Learning Challenges Prejudice
Veteran middle-school teacher Lisa Weinbaum uses service-learning to challenge students' stereotypes ...
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Grant Summary
  Student-led book club funded
A high school language arts teacher in St. Petersburg, Fla., received a $1,946 grant for a student-l ...
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Classroom Activity
  The ABCs of School Integration
This edition of The Anti-Bias Classroom (ABCs) offers activities and resources about the winding roa ...
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  Teach for Peace
World Wise Schools brings the world to U.S. students to encourage the study of geography, to promote ...
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Grant Summary
  Parents, Family, Multimedia Enhance Character Ed.
A school success liaison in a rural farm community of Lachine, Mich., where students have very littl ...
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  Book Club Crosses Social Boundaries
A middle school teacher in Lakeside, Conn., received a $1,500 TT grant for a book club that will cha ...
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  Literature Tool for Peace Studies
An elementary school counselor in Norfolk, Va., received a $1,000 TT grant for resources that will a ...
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  Ethnic Dance, Music Spotlighted in Immigration Project
A science teacher in a Flushing, N.Y., middle school where more than 20 languages are spoken, receiv ...
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  Journals, Discussions Part of Tolerance Education
A middle school teacher in Painesville, Ohio, received $1,000 TT grant to support a six-week unit on ...
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  Young Peacemaker Forum Created in Ohio
The development director of the Center for Peace Education (CPE) in Cincinnati, Ohio, a city that ha ...
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  Students Honor Local Heroes
An elementary school teacher in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, received a $1,000 TT grant for a course of study ...
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Classroom Activity
  Whiteness and Anti-Racism: Early Grades Literature Recommendations
Literature selections to help young white children see racism and bigotry and understand how they ca ...
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Magazine Article
  Captured Images
A Vermont artist brings students face-to-face with her enslaved ancestors.
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Grant Summary
  Students Helping Homeless Enlist Parents Help
An elementary school teacher in Monroe, Conn., received a $246 TT grant for an interdisciplinary pro ...
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  Peace Ed. Includes Art, Drama, Music
An elementary school teacher in Warwick, R.I., received a $503 TT grant for resources to integrate p ...
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  Portable Museum, Web Site Explores Holocaust
A high school teacher in Winston-Salem, N.C., received a $1,000 TT grant for a Holocaust study with ...
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  Survivor Honored in Holocaust Studies Unit
The coordinator for exceptional learning services in Lansing, Mich., received a $1,000 TT grant for ...
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  High-risk Youth Benefit from Character Ed.
An adult education program coordinator in Muscle Shoals, Ala., received a $1,000 TT grant for a char ...
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  Conflict Resolution Skits Shown on School TV Show
An elementary school teacher in Lake Wales, Fla., received a $1,000 TT grant for resources to suppor ...
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  Students Study Holocaust, Become Peer Leaders
A high school teacher in Tucson, Ariz., received a $500 TT grant to expand a study of the Holocaust. ...
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  Student-produced Videos on Violence, Diversity
A high school teacher in Fairfield, Iowa, received a $1,000 TT grant for student-produced videos. A ...
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  Civil Rights Movement Studied in Minn.
A middle school teacher in Eden Prairie, Minn., received a $1,000 TT grant for resources to enhance ...
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  Volunteers Cross Ethnic, Age Boundaries for Reading
The after-school program coordinator for the University of Denver Bridge Project in Denver, Colo., r ...
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  Students Examine Institutionalized Racism, Civic Ed.
A high school teacher in Palo Alto, Calif., received an $800 TT grant for resources to enhance a new ...
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  Special Ed., Art Students Pair for Gravestone Art
An elementary school teacher in Crawfordsville, Ind., received a $460 TT grant for an art project th ...
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  Family Literacy, Diversity Taught in Character Ed. Project
An educator in an Inez, Ky., middle school that has a 99 percent White school population received a ...
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Current Event
  Be All That You Can Be: A teacher serves time for social justice
A Kentucky teacher and activist returns to the classroom after three months in a federal prison.
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  Resources for Peace
Creating peaceful classrooms, schools and communities is always challenging, but especially so in a ...
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Classroom Activity
  Understanding Poverty and Homelessness
Two Oregon educators focus student attention on the realities of poverty and encourage action on thi ...
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  City Blocks
Second graders use wooden blocks and their imaginations to build a tolerant community in their class ...
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  The Aleut Evacuation: An Overlooked Injustice
The history of a proud indigenous people during WWII.
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Magazine Article
  A Fragile Peace
Two New Mexico classrooms learn the fine art of living with Tourette Syndrome.
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  "Something Is Wrong Here"
Denver students confront racial tracking at their high school.
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  Early Deliberations
A developmental psychologist investigates how children think about fairness and exclusion.
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  The World Was Silent
A study of the Armenian Genocide raises troubling questions of remembrance and responsibility.
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  Topic Index
A quick index of topics covered in the Teaching Tolerance archives.
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  A Teacher Without Borders
The editor of Teaching Tolerance reflects on a peace project that is beating the odds.
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  Grave Matters
Through a cemetery restoration project, Missouri students learn the hidden history of their communit ...
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Teaching Tool
  Pearl’s Passover
Pearl’s Passover ($16) blends recipes, crafts, stories and songs to convey the historical mea ...
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  Wishing Upon a Star: A Tale of the Holocaust and Hope
Eline Dresden not only survived the Holocaust but also managed to preserve a small collection of pho ...
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  Teen Voices
A subscription to Teen Voices (4 issues, $19.95), a magazine for girls, would benefit every middle a ...
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  5 Girls
5 Girls ($89), part of the "Girls Project" from the film collective Women Make M ...
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  Friendships in Nature
Friendships in Nature ($15.95) is a simple, colorful book featuring the symbiotic relationshi ...
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Current Event
  HUMANITARIAN AID
Focus your class on helping the Global Community (May 2003)
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  I Will Be Your Friend
Order our new free sing-along CD for young peacemakers!
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  Black History Month
For a February focus on a year-round exploration of African American history, Teaching Tolerance off ...
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  Racial Segregation Back in School
A new report issued by the Civil Rights Project (CRP) of Harvard University finds that pervasive rac ...
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  What Has Changed?
One year after 9/11, educators reflect on the state of multicultural education, patriotism and the r ...
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Teaching Tool
  The Encyclopedia of Native American Religions
The Encyclopedia of Native American Religions ($21.95) is a useful resource on an often-negle ...
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Magazine Article
  It Takes a Man
The epidemic of rape won’t end until males own up to its causes.
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  Domestic Tranquility
The editor of Teaching Tolerance reflects on the lessons of Sept. 11.
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  Teaching Tolerance Marks Its 10th Year
After ten years of service, the Teaching Tolerance project reflects on its past -- and its future.
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  Comprehensive Coverage
Baltimore schools forge innovative partnerships for mental health
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  Fresh Takes
Student filmmakers promote dialogue and activism in their communities
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  Hot Off the Presses!
Student journalists cover the front lines of social change
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Grant Summary
  Music Class Studies African, Latin American Songs, Dances
An elementary school music teacher in Nampa, Idaho, received a $1,000 TT grant for an interdisciplin ...
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  After-school High-risk Students Focus on Teamwork
An elementary school counselor in an after-school program for high-risk students in Bessemer, Ala., ...
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  Eight Schools Adopt Peaceful Playground Program
A violence prevention coordinator in Langhorne, Penn., received a $2,000 TT grant for resources to a ...
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  Students Illustrate Ethnic Cookbook
An ESOL teacher in Philadelphia, Penn., received a $1,000 TT grant for resources to support an inter ...
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  Students Develop Lesson Plans on Women, Poverty
A high school history teacher in Tinton Falls, N.J., received a $400 TT grant for a service learning ...
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  PTO, Student Council Sponsor Family Multicultural Events
An elementary school principal in Somerset, Mass., received a $500 TT grant for resources to impleme ...
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  Children Learn Nonviolence Through Play
The Children’s Program Coordinator for the YWCA in Missoula, Mont., where a lesbian couple’s home wa ...
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  Reading Buddies Explore Cultural Awareness
A first grade teacher in a rural, poverty-stricken area of Newport, N.H., received a$1,500 TT grant ...
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  Detention Program Creates Immigrant Interactive Game
A high school teacher in a San Leandro, Calif., juvenile detention program received a $400 TT grant ...
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  Community Roundtable Talks on Race
A high school teacher in Olathe, Kan., received a $951 TT grant for resources to create a tolerance- ...
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  Local Immigrants Subject of Books, Poetry, Art
A middle school English teacher in Amherst, Mass., received a $675 TT grant for an oral history proj ...
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  Folklore Picture Books Aid ESL Students
A librarian in a Delaware, Ohio, middle school that has a growing ESL population received a $1,000 T ...
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  Summer Camp Explores Character Ed.
A county 4-H agent in Marianna, Fla., where 27 percent of the children live in poverty received a $9 ...
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  Year-round Multicultural Events Liven Up School
An elementary school teacher in Van Nuys, Calif., received a $1,000 TT grant to support year-round m ...
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Current Event
  JOB OPPORTUNITY: Curriculum Specialist
Give us the benefit of your expertise by joining the Teaching Tolerance team.
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Grant Summary
  Newspapers Teach Young Students Current Events
An elementary school teacher in Charlotte, N.C., received a $287 TT grant for subscriptions to Th ...
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  College, Middle School Special Ed. Class Paint Harmony Mural
A college professor in Lebanon, Ill., received a $500 TT grant for a cultural diversity project that ...
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  ESL School Highlights Central, Latin American Cultures
A third grade teacher in a Winston-Salem, N.C., ESL school received a $1,500 TT grant to create an i ...
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Classroom Activity
  Stay in the Mix with Music!
This month, our nation celebrates National Music In Our Schools Month. Explore how music divides -- ...
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Teaching Tool
  Edward the "Crazy Man"
Edward the "Crazy Man" ($7.95) lives with schizophrenia. His imaginative costumes b ...
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Grant Summary
  Bullying, Violence Prevention Create "Caring Community"
A middle school teacher in a rural community of Calhan, Colo., received a $750 TT grant for resource ...
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  College Students Mentor ESL Students
An ESL teacher in a Wellington, Colo., school that has a predominantly Hispanic population and a dea ...
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  Monthly Theater Performances Educate
A high school teacher in Nottingham, N.H., received a $1,000 TT grant for resources to implement a p ...
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  Plays, Songs, Art Enforce Character Ed.
An elementary school teacher in a low socioeconomic area of Eagle Lake, Fla., received a $1,500 TT f ...
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  Magazine for Kindergarten Teaches Justice
A kindergarten teacher in Charlotte, N.C., received a $320 TT grant for subscriptions to Time for ...
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  Puppets, Games Teach Violence Prevention
An elementary school counselor in a homogeneous school in Layton, Utah, received a $1,000 TT grant f ...
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  New Library Literature Emphasizes Diversity
An elementary school librarian in a homogeneous Portland, Maine, school received a $1,000 TT grant f ...
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  Character Ed Enhanced for Children of Incarcerated Parents
A middle school reading teacher in Montgomery, Ala., received a $1,000 TT grant for resources to enh ...
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  Tolerance Theme Learning Center Created
An elementary school teacher in Charlotte, N.C., received a $500 TT grant for resources to create a ...
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  Middle Schoolers Share Tolerance with PreSchoolers
An alternative middle school teacher in Cheney, Wash., received a $1,350 TT grant for resources to ...
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  Virtual Ivory Coast Field Trip Inspires Scrapbook
A high school French teacher in Winchester, Mass., received a $790 TT grant for resources to enhance ...
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  Students Study Six Major Religions, Create Bullentin Boards
An alternative school teacher in Griffin, Ga., received an $840 TT grant for ethnically diverse text ...
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  Literature Circles Focus on Prejudice, Intolerance
A middle school teacher in Euclid, Ohio, received an $813 TT grant for resources to incorporate dive ...
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  Elementary Students Build Bridges with Elders
An elementary school teacher in Charlotte, N.C., received a $1,000 TT grant for an intergenerational ...
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  Middle School Students Create Quilt of Human Rights Heroes
A middle school language arts teacher in Parkland, Fla., received a $1,922 TT grant for a human righ ...
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Current Event
  Teaching Tolerance Film Wins EdPress Award
Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks, free to schools, revisits the familiar Montgomery Bus ...
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Classroom Activity
  Scouts and Tolerance
How troop leaders in Memphis, Tenn., are talking to young people about tolerance and the Scout's ant ...
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Grant Summary
  Film, Screenwriting Class Explores History
A middle school teacher in Seattle, Wash., received a $1,200 TT grant to support a film studies and ...
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  After-school Peace Clubs Expanded
A teacher in a Philadelphia, Pa., school located in the heart of a multiethnic neighborhood and plag ...
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  Character Resource Center Created for Grades K-5
A counselor in a Kingsport, Tenn., Title I school received a $ 2,000 TT grant to create a character ...
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  Book Club Studies Local Racial/Ethnic Diversity
An elementary school teacher in a Clarkston, Ga., Title I school received a $2,000 TT grant for an a ...
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  Weekly Workshops Address Rise in Racial Conflict
An Altadena, Calif., teacher in an elementary school that is experiencing a rise in racial conflicts ...
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  Elementary Schools Benefit From Steps to Respect Curriculum
A counselor in Lowell, Mich., received a $2,000 TT grant to implement the Steps to Respect curriculu ...
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  PE Class Incorporates Character Education
An elementary school teacher in Aiken, S.C., received a $1,000 TT grant for a violence prevention cu ...
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  Tolerance Assembly Highlights Cultural Diversity
A Bronx, N.Y., middle school teacher received a $1,000 TT grant for a cultural diversity project. S ...
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  Peer Mentors, Guest Speakers Assist Conflict Resolution Project
A Birmingham, Ala., teacher in an elementary school with very limited resources, received a $2,000 T ...
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  Students Study, Publish Alternatives to Violence
A high school teacher in Lafayette, La., received a $1,512 TT grant to support a writing/publishing ...
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  Students Partner for Disability Awareness Project
An elementary school special education teacher in South Hempstead, N.Y., received a $540 TT grant fo ...
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  Cultural Differences Explored Through Games, Discussion, Literature
An elementary school teacher in Prescott Valley, Ariz., received a $460 TT grant for resources to im ...
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  Latino Students Lead in Bilingual Literacy Magazine
A high school Spanish teacher in a Durham, N.C., school that has seen a significant rise in suspensi ...
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  High-risk Boys Visit University, Youth Corrections Facility
A teacher in an elementary school program for high-risk boys in Milwaukee, Wis., received a $1,600 T ...
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  Cultural Diversity Club Uses Literature, Videos, Research
A high school teacher in Chicago, Ill., received a $1,000 TT grant for an after-school cultural div ...
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  Art Museum Sponsors Diversity Display by Students
A museum development director in Bellingham, Wash., received a $740 TT grant to support an art proje ...
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  Disability Awareness Project Partners Students, Helps Parents
An exceptional student education teacher in a Fernandina Beach, Fla., elementary school received a $ ...
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  Gay Straight Alliance Club Promote Day of Silence
A high school counselor and sponsor for the Gay Straight Alliance Club in The Dalles, Ore., received ...
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  Middle School Studies Intolerance Today, Holocaust
A middle school language arts teacher in Knoxville, Tenn., received a $1,000 TT grant for resources ...
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  Students Create Holocaust PowerPoint Presentation
A middle school communication skills teacher in Hayesville, N.C., received a $1,000 TT grant for a H ...
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  Students Share Art, Teach Kindness
An elementary school counselor in Ennis, Texas, received a $1,000 TT grant for an art project that w ...
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  Six Pillars of Character Celebrated Through Song, Literature
An elementary school teacher in Reading, Mass., received a $1,400 TT grant for a character education ...
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  Cultural Roots Studied Through Art, Music, Movement
A music teacher in a rural Title I elementary school in Elgin, S.C., received a $1,500 TT grant to i ...
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  Students Create Website for Socratic Seminars, Book Club
A magnet high school media specialist in Coconut Creek, Fla., received a $2,000 TT grant for a book ...
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  Oral Histories Honored Through Intergenerational Project
A Flagstaff, Ariz., elementary school teacher received a $640 TT grant for an intergenerational pro ...
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  Student Letters, Poetry, Art Exchanged Through Email
An art teacher in a suburban Phoenix, Ariz., elementary school received a $1,000 TT grant for resour ...
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Teaching Tool
  Learning to Teach for Social Justice
In Learning to Teach for Social Justice ($21.95), a collection of essays by student teachers, ...
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  Writers of the American West: Multicultural Learning Encounter
Using autobiographies written about childhood and young adult experiences, Writers of the America ...
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  Math and Science Across Cultures: Activities and Investigations from the Exploratorium
Math and science teachers often have more difficulty integrating multicultural content into their su ...
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  Dramatic Changes: Talking About Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
High school teachers can use Dramatic Changes: Talking About Sexual Orientation and Gender Identi ...
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  Lessons from Turtle Island: Native Curriculum in Early Childhood Classrooms
The authors of Lessons from Turtle Island: Native Curriculum in Early Childhood Classrooms ($ ...
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  Everyday Life in South Asia
Everyday Life in South Asia ($21.95) is a collection of essays from India, Bangladesh, Nepal, ...
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  The Pot That Juan Built
The Pot That Juan Built ($16.95) is the true story of contemporary Mexican potter Juan Quezad ...
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  What Do You Believe?
The 50-minute video "What Do You Believe?" ($99 for high schools, $69 rental) and accompanying study ...
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  Exploring Chinatown: A Children's Guide to Chinese Culture
The authors of Exploring Chinatown: A Children's Guide to Chinese Culture ($22.95) combine te ...
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  From Wall to Wall
In From Wall to Wall ($14.99), beautiful photography and simple text combine to present the t ...
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  Meet Naiche: A Native Boy from the Chesapeake Bay Area
Meet Naiche: A Native Boy from the Chesapeake Bay Area ($15.95) is the first book in a series ...
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  Enter the Dragon: Production Guidelines and Scripts for Three Chinese Plays Adapted from Chinese Folktales
Enter the Dragon: Production Guidelines and Scripts for Three Chinese Plays Adapted from Chinese ...
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  Cada Niño/Every Child
San Antonio singer-songwriter Tish Hinojosa's 1996 recording of "Cada Niño/Every Child" ($16.95 ...
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  Cada Niño/Every Child
San Antonio singer-songwriter Tish Hinojosa's 1996 recording of "Cada Niño/Every Child" ($16.95 ...
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  Peaceful Protest: The Life of Nelson Mandela
Illustrations by folk artist Malcah Zeldis vividly complement the text by her daughter, Yona Zeldis ...
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  Embracing America: A Cuban Exile Comes of Age
Operation Pedro Pan was the name given to the mission that brought 14,000 Cuban children to the U.S. ...
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  The Oryx Holocaust Sourcebook
Educators who are looking for a current and comprehensive guide for Holocaust studies should obtain ...
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  Hana's Suitcase
In March 2000, Fumiko Ishioka, curator of a Holocaust education center in Tokyo, received a suitcase ...
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  Sí, Se Puede! Yes We Can! Janitor Strike in L.A.
The 2000 Justice for Janitors Campaign victory is portrayed in Sí, Se Puede! Yes We Can! J ...
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  Tak for Alt
After enduring life in a Jewish ghetto in her native Lithuania, Judy Meisel and her sister went on t ...
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  Remembering Manzanar: Life in a Japanese Relocation Camp
Remembering Manzanar: Life in a Japanese Relocation Camp ($16) combines photographs with entr ...
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  Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom
Originally published privately by the author in 1897, Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freed ...
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  Negro Leagues: All Black Baseball
A young girl tells the story of the Negro Leagues: All Black Baseball ($14.89) from a contemp ...
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  Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters from Children of the Great Depression
The voices of children and youth who experienced terrible economic hardships are presented in Dea ...
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  Daddy & Papa: A Story about Gay Fathers in America
Discussion of family diversity is incomplete without consideration of gay and lesbian parents. "Dadd ...
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  Just Call Me Kade
Although GLBT (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender) may be awkward to say, viewers of "Just Call Me ...
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  Singing with Momma Lou
In Singing with Momma Lou ($16.95), 9-year-old Tamika and her family make weekly trips to the ...
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  Deaf Child Crossing
Megan, who is deaf, is happy to meet her new neighbor Cynthia, who can hear. Deaf Child Crossing< ...
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  Monkey for Sale
Monkey for Sale ($17) is a story from the Democratic Republic of Congo about two girls who go ...
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  Sparks Fly Upward
Sparks Fly Upward ($15) is based loosely on the author's family, Jewish immigrants to Canada ...
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  In The Color of Home
In The Color of Home ($15.99), Hassan, a 1st grader who has just arrived in the United States ...
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  My Diary from Here to There/Mi Diario de Aquí Hasta Allá
The author's experiences immigrating to the U.S. from Mexico with her family are the basis for the b ...
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Current Event
  National Youth Violence Prevention Week
March 4, 2004 -- Join schools across the country in participating in this important educational even ...
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  October 18, 2003:
NAACP's National Day of College Preparation

Oct. 7, 2003 -- Free college preparation clinics offered in 25 cities.
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  Mix It Up Day Comes Early in Cleveland
Oct. 9, 2003 -- This year's Mix It Up Day isn't until Nov. 18. But some schools couldn’t wait. See h ...
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  To Scout or Not to Scout?
Sept. 10, 2003 -- As school gets started across the country, educators and parents struggle to balan ...
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  NEWS OF THE WEEK:
The Best of Education News

Must-read headlines from the week of September 15, 2003.
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  Racial Equality Week Begins Sept. 29
Sept. 19, 2003 -- The National League of Cities' fourth annual Race Equality Week is Sept. 29 throug ...
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Classroom Activity
  Rediscovering Forgotten Women Writers
Honoring the far-reaching contribution of women authors.
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Current Event
  Town Memorializes 1920 Lynching Victims
Oct. 13, 2003 -- Minnesota residents face their past and look to the future.
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Grant Summary
  Literature Circles and Reader’s Theater Productions
An elementary school teacher in a small rural county in Plymouth, N.C., received a $1,125 grant for ...
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  Multi-Age Service Learning Projects
An elementary school teacher in South Windsor, Conn., received a $1,767 grant for resources to expan ...
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  Enhancing Respect and Acceptance of Difference
An assistant superintendent for K-3 curriculum and instruction in Valley Stream, N.Y., received a $2 ...
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  Expanding the Study of Culture Using the Arts
A K-5 school principal in Ellicott City, Md., received a $1,440 grant for resources to expand a stud ...
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  Intergenerational Mentoring
A high school teacher in Greenbush, Minn., received a $668 grant for an intergenerational project. S ...
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  Tolerance Reading Program
A middle school teacher in Tucson, Ariz., received a $300 grant for resources to implement a reading ...
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  Conflict Resolution and Diversity Awareness
A high school counselor in Cypress, Calif., received a $1,500 grant for conflict resolution and dive ...
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  Middle School Leadership Training
A middle school teacher in Rochester, N.Y., received a $465 grant for resources to implement a leade ...
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  Exploring Culture and Community
A kindergarten teacher in Chicago, Ill., received a $1,700 grant for resources to implement a curric ...
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  Collaboration Between an Elementary School and Senior Home
An elementary school teacher in Columbia, Md., received a $1,000 grant for an after school service-l ...
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  Justice - Local and Global
A kindergarten teacher in Charlotte, N.C., received a $640 grant for subscriptions to Time for Kids ...
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  Peaceful Playgrounds
An assistant principal for a preK-8th grade school in Wheaton, Md., received a $1,500 grant to imple ...
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  Multi-Level Art-Based Conflict Resolution Curriculum
A teacher in an Anaheim, Calif., alternative school received a $1,200 grant for a multi-level confli ...
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  Kindergarten Peer Mediators
A kindergarten teacher in Chesterfield, Mo., received a $1,200 TT grant for a conflict resolution pr ...
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Current Event
  California school district struggles with hate crimes
October 20, 2003 -- How to deal with bias crises on campus.
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Grant Summary
  Stanhope Elmore Issues Project
Susanne Harrison of Stanhope Elmore High School in Millbrook, AL received a $788 Teaching Tolerance ...
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Current Event
  New Jersey Students Cross the Ability Divide
October 30, 2003 -- Programs explore ways to bring able-bodied and disabled students together.
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  Welcoming Refugees at School
November 6, 2003 -- In Atlanta, refugee and non-refugee teens reach out to one another and offer les ...
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Classroom Activity
  March 21: The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
This UN holiday takes on life in Canadian classrooms.
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Current Event
  Group to restore historical sites of women's history
Dec. 29, 2003 -- Will the often-overlooked historical sites affiliated with notable women in America ...
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Grant Summary
  Tennessee examines intolerance in historical contexts
An elementary school librarian in Knoxville, Tenn., received a $2,000 grant for multicultural curric ...
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  New York service-learning project
A parochial school teacher in New Albany, N.Y., received a $1,500 grant for a service-learning proje ...
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  Resources for a South Carolina tolerance curriculum
A guidance counselor in Goose Creek, S.C. received a $1,200 grant for tolerance-related curriculum r ...
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  Developing a model program in New York
An elementary school physical education teacher in East Islip, N.Y., received a $1,200 grant for re ...
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  Diversity explored in Arizona
A museum director in Scottsdale, Ariz., received a $1,000 grant for a tolerance/diversity project th ...
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  Kansas City study Nobel Peace Laureate
A high school teacher in Kansas City, Mo., received a $1,250 grant for a peace/antiviolence project ...
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  Multimedia character education
A youth services director for an alternative school that serves students with special needs, in Chil ...
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  School-wide violence prevention in Tennessee
An elementary school teacher in Blountsville, Tenn., received a $1,700 grant for resources to implem ...
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  Conflict resolution in Montezuma Creek, Utah
A school social worker in Montezuma Creek, Utah, received a $1,034 grant for resources to implemen ...
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  Multicultural library resources for North Dakota centers
The executive director of the Fargo, N.D., YWCA received a $1,000 grant for multicultural library re ...
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  Peer mediation in North Carolina
A county supervisor in Pittsboro, N.C., received a $750 grant for resources to enhance the peer medi ...
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  Conflict resolution in Utah
An elementary school counselor in South Weber, Utah, received a $1,000 grant for resources to imp ...
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  Improving character education materials
An elementary school counselor in Norman, Okla., received a $942 grant for resources to upgrade cha ...
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  Peaceful playground in Delaware
An elementary school teacher in Newark, Del., received an $1,100 grant to implement a peaceful playg ...
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  Celebrate Diversity Day in Michigan
A middle school language arts teacher in Howell, Mich., received a $997 TT grant for an interdiscipl ...
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Current Event
  Lawsuit: Religious Bias Taints Curriculum
Dec. 5, 2003 -- A Maine teacher claims he was barred from teaching about non-Christian civilizations ...
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Grant Summary
  Social studies curriculum additions
A middle school teacher in Vinemont, Ala., received a $500 grant for multicultural resources to enri ...
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  Workshops on tolerance topics
A college professor in Arcata, Calif., received a $1,100 grant for a partnership between pre-serv ...
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  School-wide violence prevention curriculum
A teacher in a Toledo, Ohio 1st-8th grade school for children with special needs such as LD, ADD a ...
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  Character education in California
A school psychologist in a Ventura, Calif., K-5th grade school received a $1,000 grant for a charact ...
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  New multicultural resources
A K-8th grade parochial school librarian in Kansas City, Mo., received a $900 grant for multicultura ...
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  Oral history projects
A middle school teacher in Gainesville, Ga., received a $1,200 grant for an oral history project. St ...
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  Mentoring and documentary production
A 6th grade teacher in Hazlehurst, Miss., received a $1,100 grant for a character education/mentori ...
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  Interdisciplinary faculty book club
A high school ESOL teacher in Sarasota, Fla., received a $1,000 grant for resources to promote a fa ...
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  Interdisciplinary character education
A middle school guidance counselor in Gilbert, S.C., received a $1,200 grant for an interdisciplinar ...
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  Resources for Hispanic students and Spanish language learners
A high school librarian in Quicksburg, Va., received a $1,000 grant to provide bilingual multicultur ...
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Teaching Tool
  Enduring Wisdom: Sayings from Native Americans
In the introduction to Enduring Wisdom: Sayings from Native Americans ($16.95), the Rosebud S ...
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  In English, Of Course
The author of In English, Of Course ($8.95 paperback, $16.95 hardcover) created this deligh ...
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  Once Upon a Time
Sarie lives in the South African Karoo with her Auntie Anna, who tells her stories while they sit in ...
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  Butterflies for Kiri
In Butterflies for Kiri ($16.95), readers can learn how to make an origami butterfly, after l ...
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  Black All Around
Don't neglect black when you plan art projects or discovery activities involving colors. Read Bla ...
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  One Child, One Seed: A South African Counting Book
In One Child, One Seed: A South African Counting Book ($16.95), a simple story and 1-10 count ...
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  Nobody Else Like Me: Activities to Celebrate Diversity
Nobody Else Like Me: Activities to Celebrate Diversity ($31.50 for book and CD) is an engagin ...
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  Babu's Song
The title character of Babu's Song ($16.95) is a toymaker who lives with his young grandson ...
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  Stone Soup
This version of Stone Soup ($16.95), a familiar European tale, is set in China, using the Bud ...
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  Hands of the Maya: Villagers at Work and Play
Hands of the Maya: Villagers at Work and Play ($16.95) was written by an elementary school te ...
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  Ian's Walk: A Story about Autism
Ian's Walk: A Story about Autism ($14.95 hardcover, $6.95 paperback) tells the story of an au ...
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  The Old Woman and the Eagle
Afghan author Idries Shah adapted an ancient story from the Sufi tradition into the children's book, ...
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  A World of Difference: Readings on Teaching Young Children in a Diverse Society
Although you will eventually want to read it from cover to cover, it's possible to read A World o ...
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  Latina and Latino Voices in Literature: Lives and Works, Updated and Expanded
Latina and Latino Voices in Literature: Lives and Works, Updated and Expanded ($55) is an eas ...
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  The Respectful School
Written by a former hate-crime prosecutor who now focuses on prevention, The Respectful School Go

  When Race Becomes Real: Black and White Writers Confront Their Personal Histories
In When Race Becomes Real: Black and White Writers Confront Their Personal Histories, ($26.95 ...
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  Escuela
Escuela ($250, $75 rental) is a 53-minute documentary film, in Spanish and English with Engli ...
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  High Stakes: Children, Testing and Failure in American Schools: A Year in the Life of One Rural School and Its Children
The authors of High Stakes: Children, Testing and Failure in American Schools: A Year in the Life ...
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  What Keeps Teachers Going?
In What Keeps Teachers Going? ($18.95), an inquiry group of urban public school teachers offe ...
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Magazine Article
  Elder Grace
Pennsylvania programs promote respect across generations.
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  One Nation, Indivisible
It is not enough to remember Brown v. Board. We must convey its meaning to students — and tak ...
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  WebWorks
Must visit destinations on the Internet.
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  Let the Mainlands Hear the Word
Coastal Carolina educators work to preserve Gullah culture.
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  VIETNAMESE AMERICANS: Lessons in American History
A preview of a new online curriculum.
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  Raise the Bar
A juvenile facility in Detroit focuses on development, not detention.
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  PARENTING: 'They're Playing Indians.'
How to talk to kids about stereotypes on television. A take-home lesson for students' families.
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  'That's What I Am: I Am a Teacher'
The National Teacher of the Year talks.
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  True Blue
An American educator brings her anti-bullying program to South African schools.
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  BROWN V. BOARD: Classroom Activities and Resources
Activities, books, websites and films to enhance your lessons on Brown.
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  BROWN V. BOARD: A New Milestone Decade
Can Brown's anniversary reawaken the spirit of common cause that fueled the Civil Rights Move ...
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  BROWN V. BOARD: Where Are We Now?
Fifty years after the historic ruling, American schools are resegregating.
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  BROWN V. BOARD: Brown Is...
Complete interviews with 14 Americans about the legacy and impact of Brown.
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  BROWN V. BOARD: The United States, Circa 1954
The state of the union when the Brown decision came down.
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  BROWN V. BOARD: An American Legacy
What Brown v. Board meant to America. A special anniversary section of Teaching Tolerance< ...
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  Family and Friends' Guide to Domestic Violence
Family and Friends' Guide to Domestic Violence ($17.95) is an insightful and compassionate bo ...
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  Raising Ourselves: A Gwich'in Coming of Age Story from the Yukon River
Raising Ourselves: A Gwich'in Coming of Age Story from the Yukon River ($19.95) is the biogra ...