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School
Shootings: Girls as Targets
How should educators and parents talk
with youth about the apparent targeting of girls
during the Bailey, Colo., and Nickel Mines, Penn.,
school shootings?
The ABCs of
Service-Learning
As classrooms across the country prepare for Make a
Difference Day on Oct. 28, Teaching Tolerance offers the
following resources
to help teachers and students turn a one-day event into
a meaningful opportunity for social change.
Four ways to ensure service projects reduce
stereotypes.
Student Ben Taylor reflects on his service in
hurricane-ravaged New
Orleans.
Educator Mary Cowhey reflects on service,
stereotypes, students and self.
White
Students: 'The Capacity For Connection'
In a special Q
& A, educators Louise Derman-Sparks and Patricia
G. Ramsey, authors of the newly released book, "What
If All the Kids are White?," provide practical
ideas on how to prepare white students for a
multicultural world.
Latino
Heritage Month: Dolores Huerta
Teaching Tolerance spoke with Mexican-American labor
activist Dolores
Huerta about the economic roots of immigration,
organizing and workers' rights. Questions for classroom
discussion are included.
Halloween and
Stereotypes
This new activity, adaptable across grades, helps students
look critically at the Halloween costumes marketed
to them. In schools where Halloween is observed, the
activity can be used to develop guidelines for
acceptable holiday garb.
Teaching
Tolerance With Current Events
In a new weekly service, Teaching Tolerance provides
educators with collections of news
headlines, complete with resources and discussion
questions.
Facebook a Tool for Hate?; Immigrant Protest; DNA
Testing Bridges Continents
Discuss
it
Anti-Navajo Violence; Civil Rights Murder Case
Re-Opened; A Strike in Detroit
Discuss
it
Share
your ideas.
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