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A Message From Our Director
Teaching Tolerance director Maureen Costello discusses the difficulty of teaching the 2016 election.
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Toolkit for "Book Smarts"
Educators can use classroom publishing to validate the experiences of all students and to introduce critical literacy. This toolkit provides writing prompts to help you bring out the best in your students’ writing.
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Toolkit for “Wanted: Playground Buddy”
This toolkit for “Wanted: Playground Buddy” provides suggestions and activities to help students and educators add a Buddy Bench to the playground and make their school more inclusive.
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Reflecting on the 2016-17 School Year
What would you say to your beginning-of-the-school-year self? We asked our advisory board this very question.
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Literature
The Breadwinner
After spending months talking to women in Afghan refugee camps, Deborah Ellis penned this timely novel about life under Taliban rule. Living in Afghanistan with her family, Parvana is a rarity—a girl who can read and experiences life, even for just a few hours, outside the four walls of her home.
July 3, 2014
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Race Riots
In this essay, the author gives a short history of race riots, showing how they were originally organized by whites in an effort to show dominance over African Americans, particularly in the South.
June 20, 2016
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Believing Change Is Possible
Before Ayesha al-Shabazz could become a 7-year-old's superhero, she had to make a very human connection.
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Supporting Student Action
Educators play a valuable role as adult allies to youth organizing for social justice.
May 23, 2023
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Engagement With Community Interests and Concerns
When students witness activist resistance to injustices in their own communities, it helps them better understand a core component of social justice education.
May 26, 2023
