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Teaching Tolerance - Diversity, Equity and Justice. Number 53: Summer 2016. Cover art by John Hersey. Teacher allies do more than care about students. Find out what it takes to become an effective ally and how you can start today! Download the PDF version of this issue here. Number 52: Spring 2016. Cover art by Peter Horjus. Use technology to foster equity with new research from Mica Pollock and colleagues. Download the PDF version of the magazine here. Number 51: Fall 2015. Cover art by Roman Muradov.
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Confronting White Privilege | Teaching Tolerance - Diversity, Equity and Justice
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Teaching Tolerance - Diversity, Equity and Justice. Number 42: Fall 2012. In general, educational research tends to focus on the effects segregation patterns have on kids from low-income families or communities of color. However, not investigating the educational experiences of white, affluent students wrongly frames them as the successful norm to which others are compared. What specific strategies for engaging these students are most effective at raising awareness without also provoking guilt or anger?
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Talking Race | Teaching Tolerance - Diversity, Equity and Justice
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Teaching Tolerance - Diversity, Equity and Justice. Number 36: Fall 2009. Nuri Vargas knows how it feels to be silenced. Not long ago, while working in a school near San Diego, Calif., Vargas was talking with another teacher when the conversation randomly led to the topic of dental health. She said to me, ‘Have you noticed that the Latino kids’ teeth are all rotten? It’s cultural because Latino parents give their kids lots of candy and they don’t brush their teeth.’. But in many faculty rooms, there’s li...
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Think, Care, Act: Teaching for a Peaceful Future: September 2015
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Think, Care, Act: Teaching for a Peaceful Future. By teaching our students to think, care, and act, we empower them to build a peaceful future. By teaching our students to think, care, and act, we empower them to build a peaceful future. Think, Care, Act,. Where teachers and students can find rationales and resources to infuse required curricula with peace, character, global, and multicultural concepts throughout the year. Saturday, September 5, 2015. I use this analogy: “It’s like a body. I’ll be ...
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Think, Care, Act: Teaching for a Peaceful Future: June 2015
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Think, Care, Act: Teaching for a Peaceful Future. By teaching our students to think, care, and act, we empower them to build a peaceful future. By teaching our students to think, care, and act, we empower them to build a peaceful future. Think, Care, Act,. Where teachers and students can find rationales and resources to infuse required curricula with peace, character, global, and multicultural concepts throughout the year. Friday, June 19, 2015. Increasingly, divisions in our society seem insurmountable.
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Checking on Stereotypes | Teaching Tolerance - Diversity, Equity and Justice
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Teaching Tolerance - Diversity, Equity and Justice. Grades 3 to 5. Grades 6 to 8. Grades 9 to 12. Reading and Language Arts. Always guard against the tendency to believe that everyone within a given identity group believes the same way. Students will identify stereotypes they've experienced or heard. Students will discuss how these stereotypes are not always true. Students will identify specific ways to break down stereotypes. 3x5 index cards for students. Shuffle the cards and invite a few students to s...
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Democratic Classrooms | Teaching Tolerance - Diversity, Equity and Justice
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Teaching Tolerance - Diversity, Equity and Justice. Building Relationships in the Classroom. Educators possess different philosophies and styles for their teaching. Some work from an authoritarian perspective, leveraging their power as the teacher to control student behavior and dictate classroom participation. Others employ a more democratic approach, sharing power with students and supporting them in managing their own behaviors. What does he suggest as the key to getting control of a classroom? Which ...
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Color Lines | Teaching Tolerance - Diversity, Equity and Justice
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Teaching Tolerance - Diversity, Equity and Justice. Number 19: Spring 2001. In elementary and high schools in the U.S., teaching about color usually begins with color wheels and value scales. This paradigm of instruction emphasizes a systematic and experimental approach to the "effects" of color. It may also reinforce assumptions rooted in racism. The students discuss the emerging patterns of symbolism. In "Old Age," the man - now white-haired, near death - rests in his battered boat on dark waters a...
