Teaching Kits and Handbooks

Teaching Tolerance's educational kits and subscriptions to its magazine are FREE to classroom teachers, school librarians, school counselors, school administrators, professors of education, leaders of homeschool networks, youth directors at houses of worship and employees of youth-serving nonprofit organizations.

Beyond the Golden Rule

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Beyond the Golden Rule: A Parent’s Guide to Preventing and Responding to Prejudice offers practical advice about the challenges and rewards of parenting in today's diverse world. Psychologists, educators and parenting experts offer practical, age-appropriate advice to help you integrate lessons of respect and tolerance in day-to-day activities.

Civil Discourse in the Classroom

These tools lay the groundwork for productive, reasoned and lively discussions on a variety of topics. They also will give students “training wheels” for learning how to have reasoned arguments outside the classroom.

Civil discourse is discourse that supports, rather than undermines, the societal good.

Mighty Times: The Children's March

This special teachers' edition of the Academy Award-winning documentary film and accompanying resources tell the heroic story of the young people in Birmingham, Alabama, who brought segregation to its knees.

Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks

Recommended for middle and upper grades, this Academy Award-nominated documentary film and accompanying resources bring the Montgomery Bus Boycott alive for today's students. This innovative and authoritative history of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott infuses the familiar story of the boycott with first person accounts, stirring dramatizations and narration by young people.

One Survivor Remembers

This Academy Award-winning documentary film tells the empowering story of Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissman Klein. The kit includes primary documents drawn from Klein's private collection, along with a teacher's guide and resource booklet.

Prom Night in Mississippi

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The new documentary Prom Night in Mississippi takes us to Charleston, Miss. - where high school students held their first racially integrated prom. Teaching Tolerance has teamed up with director-producer Paul Saltzman and HBO to create a teacher's guide to help you use the film in the classroom.

Speak Up!

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The Southern Poverty Law Center gathered hundreds of stories of everyday bigotry from people across the United States. They told their stories through e-mail, personal interviews and at roundtable discussions in four cities. People spoke about encounters in stores and restaurants, on streets and in schools. No matter the location or relationship, the stories echo each other.

Starting Small

Starting Small Teaching Kit

Designed for in-service programs, this training tool for early grades educators profiles classrooms in which peace, equity and justice are guiding themes. The kit includes a 58-minute film in VHS format with closed-captioning; and 250-page text with classroom profiles, commentary, activities and a resource guide.

The Power of Words

The Power of Words

A curriculum about the language that captures the multiethnic temper of our times. These lessons encourage us to explore the words used in the United States to label ethnic groups, women and sexual minorities and to examine the ways in which these words reveal our nation's social landscape.

Vietnamese Americans

Vietnamese Americans

Designed for use with learners in grades 7 and above, this curriculum guide sheds light on the complexities of this unique identity group — and encourages users to bridge cultural gaps through awareness of shared experiences.

Viva La Causa

Viva La Causa introduces the Delano strike and grape boycott led by César Chávez and Dolores Huerta. The kit includes a 39-minute DVD and a teacher's guide with standards-based lesson plans.

Writing for Change

Raising Awareness of Difference, Power and Discrimination