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Teaching Tolerance's mission is to help teachers and schools educate children and youth to be active participants in a diverse democracy.
Teaching Tolerance provides free resources to educators—teachers, administrators, counselors and other practitioners—who work with children from kindergarten through high school. Educators use our materials to supplement the curriculum, to inform their practices, and to create civil and inclusive school communities where children are respected, valued and welcome participants.
"The Social Justice Standards are comprised of anchor standards and age-appropriate learning outcomes divided into four domains—Identity, Diversity, Justice and Action (IDJA). The Standards provide a common language and organizational structure: Teachers can use them to guide curriculum development, and administrators can use them to make schools more just, equitable and safe. The Standards are leveled for every stage of K–12 education and includes school-based scenarios to show what anti-bias attitudes and behavior may look like in the classroom."
Four Professional Development Modules
Four Professional Development Modules
Social Justice Standards: Unpacking Identity
Understand the five Identity anchor standards, and relate how identity has many characteristics and affects relationships within the school building and the classroom.Social Justice Standards: Unpacking Diversity
Develop respectful ways to discuss similarities and differences with others through the five Diversity anchor standards, and begin to think about how diversity affects relationships within the school building and the classroom.Understand the difference between personal stereotypes and systemic discrimination, and explore how privilege impacts discrimination and justice, and understand the five Justice anchor standards.Understand the five Action anchor standards and how they can be used to move students from prejudice reduction to collective action.
TT-Critical-Practices-for-Anti-bias-Education.pdf"As more and more emphasis is placed on improving academic outcomes, it can begin to feel as if there just isn’t enough time for relationship building and social-emotional learning. But that doesn’t have to be the case.
This critical practices guide offers practical strategies for creating a space where academic and social-emotional goals are accomplished side by side. It also provides valuable advice for implementing culturally responsive pedagogy and describes how teachers can bring anti-bias values to life"
TT-Reading-Together-Guide-10-28-19.pdfReading Together: A Guide for Families and Educators is designed to support a group of caretakers: parents, guardians, teachers, librarians and others as they plan and lead an intergenerational social justice reading group. Along with models and resources, you’ll find practical recommendations for establishing a framework, inviting student input and organizing a series of meetings during which children and adults in your community can read, talk, teach and learn together.
TT-Speak-Up-Guide.pdf"Many of the questions we receive for our magazine column “Ask Teaching Tolerance” are from educators seeking advice about how to respond when someone—a student, a colleague, even a parent—uses biased language or stereotypes in school.
This guide is our response. It’s for educators who want to develop the skills to speak up themselves and who want to help their students find the courage to speak up too."
TT-Lets Talk-2017 Final.pdf"Educators play a crucial role in helping students talk openly about the historical roots and contemporary manifestations of social inequality and discrimination. Learning how to communicate about such topics as white privilege, police violence, economic inequality and mass incarceration requires practice, and facilitating difficult conversations demands courage and skill—regardless of who we are, our intentions or how long we’ve been teaching.
Use the strategies in this resource as you prepare to facilitate difficult conversations about race and racism. You can also use them to build competency when discussing other types of discrimination such as gender bias, ableism, and religious or anti-LGBT persecution."
20-Face-to-Face-Advisories-v2-CoverRedesign-Oct2017.pdfThe meetings in Face to Face Advisories expose students to diverse perspectives and guide them to understand those perspectives and to critically and honestly analyze ideas from a variety of cultures. It all happens through safe, engaging, guided peer-to-peer activities that build social emotional skills and connections across differences.
The 20 advisory meetings selected for Teaching Tolerance provide a sample of the movement Face to Face Advisories makes from awareness to action. They are grouped by the domains of Teaching Tolerance's Anti-bias Framework: Identity, Diversity, Justice and Action, with five advisories in each domain.
TT-2019-Hate-at-School-Report.pdf"In 2018, we reported a disturbing number of incidents involving identity-based slurs, hateful symbols, bigotry and the harassment of children in school. This hostility reflects what’s happening outside school walls and in our political and social media culture.
Hate at School 2018 supplements news reports from 2018 with a survey conducted by Teaching Tolerance in December that asked educators to describe incidents involving hate symbols or the targeting of others on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, immigration status, gender or sexual identity. This report analyzes responses to help better understand the types of hate incidents that are occurring in schools, where they happen, who is most often targeted and how schools are responding.
We cannot simply ignore these problems."
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