Webinars

Help young students learn the meaning and value of Identity, Diversity, Justice and Action—the four domains of the Teaching Tolerance Social Justice Standards. Find out how to implement these activities in your classroom with this exciting webinar!

With Teaching Hard History, we’re calling on American educators, curriculum writers and policy makers to confront the fact that slavery and racial injustice are not only a foundational part of the nation’s past, but a continuing influence on the present.

Are you looking for culturally responsive ways to support English language learners? Based on our recently updated ELL best practices guide, this webinar presents specific tools and strategies for supporting ELLs in instruction, family engagement, classroom culture and school policies.

In the last webinar of our series on school climate, NEA and Teaching Tolerance will offer strategies for responding to biased remarks in a timely manner and helping students to do the same.

Join NEA and Teaching Tolerance for our second of three school-climate webinars. This time, we will provide guidance on how to have relevant and rigorous conversations with students about race, racism and other important topics.

Join Teaching Tolerance for this webinar on how you can be an ally and a partner in empowerment for marginalized students and colleagues.

Can your students tell the difference between real news and “fake” news? Do they have the tools to speak up when they witness offensive speech online? Teaching Tolerance is proud to introduce our newest collection of K–12 lessons to help students learn to be responsible digital citizens.

In this first of three school-climate webinars with NEA and Teaching Tolerance, you will reflect on your school's climate, identify existing policies and procedures for responding to incidents of hate and bias, and learn how to draft an action plan.

Join Teaching Tolerance for this webinar on things you should know about the history of "alt-right" and how to spot it in your school.

Mobilizing the next generation of voters and activists is critical to our country's electoral integrity.This hour-long webinar will offer ways to energize students regarding power politics and the role voting plays in representative democracy.

This session examines the five essential practices for teaching about the Civil Rights Movement, educate for empowerment, know how to talk about race, capture the unseen, tell a complicated story and connect to the present.

Join Teaching Tolerance and the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam to learn how to incorporate the Diary of Anne Frank into discussions on identity, exclusion and persecution.

The final webinar in the Equity Matters series will address how to move from a deficit-based approach to an equity-literacy framework for meeting the needs of students and families experiencing poverty.

The third Equity Matters webinar delves into implicit biases—the subconscious biases we all have that influence how we respond to others.

This sequel to Let's Talk! Discussing Black Lives Matter in the Classroom reviews the education related policy demands within the Movement for Black Lives' platform: Invest-Divest and Community Control.

In the second Equity Matters webinar, educators will discuss family engagement as one of many keys to student success. Find out how to implement home visits as a way to effectively and positively interact with students, families and communities.

The first webinar in the Equity Matters series will discuss the importance of empathy in our interactions with students and in students' interactions with others.

In this interactive webinar, we'll discuss whiteness as a racial identity with the understanding that acknowledging whiteness and the privilege and power attached to it is a necessary step in working toward racial justice.

In this webinar we'll introduce Arthur-related digital resources and strategies that can help you incorporate social and emotional learning in the classroom while supporting critical literacy.

Need tips for responding to student behavior and keeping learning on task? We created this webinar for you, with input from over 1,200 educators who completed our classroom management survey.

For this third part in the Let's Talk! series, Teaching Tolerance and Gerber Spectrum are teaming up to help educators think beyond the gender binary and to create gender-inclusive classrooms.

In this second part of the Let's Talk! series, educators will learn how to lead powerful conversations about the 2016 election and consider the effects of political rhetoric on vulnerable students, civil discourse and school climate.

In this first webinar in the Let's Talk! series, we'll explore Black Lives Matter, an activist group that media, schools and communities often struggle to understand.

Join us and special guest David Dinielli, Deputy Legal Director of the Southern Poverty Law Center's LGBT Rights Project, for this important conversation about religious freedom and the advancement of LGBT rights.

View this webinar to learn relaxation strategies, planning tips for next year and ways to fill your "compassion tanks" over the break. Join us and give back to yourself! You deserve it.

Intersectionality has become a buzzword in education, but what does it mean and why is it important in schools? This webinar will help participants understand intersectionality and offer strategies for putting knowledge into practice.

Join us and our friends from the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding for this one-hour webinar, and learn try-tomorrow strategies that can help you teach about extremism accurately, responsibly and safely.

In this webinar, participants will learn how to use Reading Diversity to select texts that reflect their students' identities and offer them windows into the diverse lived experiences of others.

Are you looking for fun and creative ways to engage your students in anti-bias learning? This webinar will feature entertaining team-building activities you can use in your classroom tomorrow.

Join Teaching Tolerance as we address these concerns with the support of Johanna Eager, director of Welcoming Schools. During this informative, interactive and insightful conversation, she'll share her expertise in bias-based bullying in schools, with emphasis on intersectionality, gender and LGBT inclusivity.

View this webinar to learn how the anti-bias standards can dovetail with your curriculum and subject-specific standards to help students develop anti-bias attitudes and social emotional skills.

This webinar will prepare educators to use the approximately 45 days between the King holiday and the end of February to engage all students in recognizing and understanding how black Americans have moved United States and world history forward. Join Teaching Tolerance as we share practices and strategies for celebrating the contributions of African Americans, whether they are household names or unsung heroes.

View this webinar to learn how you can apply Teaching Tolerance's special publication "Beyond the Bus" to your civil rights instruction.

"How does my conduct affect the school-to-prison pipeline?" This webinar invites teachers, counselors, building and district leaders, and school resource officers to consider this question.

View this webinar to find out how you can use Mix It Up to enhance your school's climate with this quick and fun webinar.

Use this webinar to learn how you can help your high schoolers engage with individuals from vastly different religious and cultural backgrounds in the wider world.

View this webinar to learn about how you can help your students understand the use of primary sources to discuss the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the events and people surrounding it.

View this webinar to learn more about how you can enable middle level students to express their own identities while learning about diverse religious and nonreligious beliefs.

Use this webinar to learn about the importance of maps and context when learning about the Civil Rights Movement and the long struggle for freedom.

Don't miss this webinar where you'll learn about nine essential areas to cover when the teaching and learning about the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Participants analyze an image from the Library of Congress' collections and discuss questioning techniques that help students build an understanding about the complexity of the Civil Rights Movement.

Don't miss this webinar where we explore ways to teach elementary level students about religion and religious differences, all while promoting empathy and respectful curiosity among students.

This webinar walks participants through the teaching guide for Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. The guide provides resources and support educators and students need to explore the critical social justice issues at the center of Alexander's work.

Join Teaching Tolerance and Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, to discuss her timely book and suggestions to introduce high school students to topics such as mass incarceration and racial caste.

This beginner level webinar is designed for educators of all grades and subjects to learn strategies for creating welcoming classroom environments for religious diversity and supporting students’ religious and non-religious identities.

Do you know how legal guidelines inform instruction choices about discussing religious diversity in the classroom? This webinar will help you feel comfortable addressing religious diversity in ways that foster a respectful learning environment from basic strategies and practices to First Amendment considerations.