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Strategies for Reducing Racial and Ethnic Prejudice: Essential Principles

These design principles developed by the CODA panel are meant to provide guidelines for action to those selecting or developing strategies to improve intergroup relations.

Professional Development Topic

School Climate

Topic

Race & Ethnicity

May 10, 2011

article

March 24, 2011

Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

In today’s anti-government, anti-union environment, it’s important to illustrate what happens when the powerful hold all the cards. The Triangle shirtwaist fire presents an opportunity to do just that.

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism

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Informational

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote the opinion for Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, a groundbreaking case that overturned the "separate but equal" standard set forth in Plessy v. Ferguson. The Supreme Court decided this case unanimously on May 17, 1954.

Earl Warren

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Civil Rights Movement Race & Ethnicity Rights & Activism

Subject

Civics

History

July 2, 2014

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Informational

DREAM Act of 2011

Laura Vazquez, an analyst for the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), presented this statement to a Congressional subcommittee at the hearing “S. 952, DEVELOPMENT, RELIEF, AND EDUCATION FOR ALIEN MINORS (DREAM) ACT OF 2011” on June 28, 2011.

Laura Vazquez

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Race & Ethnicity Immigration Rights & Activism

Subject

Civics

History

July 2, 2014

article

November 10, 2016

What to Say to Kids on November 10 and the Days After

Yesterday, you needed to reassure your students and keep them safe. Today, you need to tell them the truth: Everything is not OK. We have work to do, and we can do it.

Topic

Race & Ethnicity Religion

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Informational

Gawking, Gaping, Staring

In this personal narrative, Clare explores multiple facets of the self and questions why gender is still discussed as a binary. He acknowledges the tortured lives that many have lived as a result of their gender ambiguity and declares that all those who "gawk," "gape," and "stare" at those who are different never get it right.

Eli Clare

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Ability Gender & Sexual Identity

July 14, 2014

lesson

Looking at Race and Racial Identity in Children’s Books

This lesson, the second in a series, encourages students to think and talk openly about the concept of beauty, particularly as it overlaps with issues of race and racial identity.

Grade Level

K-2 3-5

Topic

Race & Ethnicity

Subject

Reading & Language Arts

Social Studies

ELL / ESL

September 9, 2011

lesson

Who, Me? A Scientist?

In this lesson, students get in touch with their “inner scientists,” first by viewing a video of a 4-year-old solving a complex problem and then by working together to explain a discrepant event. Students also consider attributes shared by many scientists: curiosity, perseverance and the ability to problem-solve.

Grade Level

3-5

Topic

Race & Ethnicity Gender & Sexual Identity

Subject

Reading & Language Arts

Social Studies

Math & Technology

Science & Health

April 18, 2016

lesson

Exploring Young Immigrant Stories

This lesson helps students appreciate diversity among their peers and the diversity of immigrants all over the world. Through hands-on exercises, students will discover similarities and differences they share with other children.

Grade Level

3-5

Topic

Immigration

Subject

Reading & Language Arts

Social Studies

Geography

ELL / ESL

September 12, 2016

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Literature

Why Chicken Means So Much to Me

It may seem like an empty stomach is the worst thing about being poor, but for Junior it’s not being able to save his best friend.

Sherman Alexie

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Race & Ethnicity Class

Subject

Economics

July 5, 2014

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