March 3, 2020

Join Educators Across the Country in the #USvsHate Challenge

Our #USvsHate project is a nationwide anti-bias initiative to amplify student voice and push back against messages of bias, bigotry and hate. Educators select and teach anti-hate lessons, and students create their own inclusive messages to share across school communities. We’ll select artwork to feature on our social media accounts, and selected pieces will be professionally reproduced and distributed as free posters to all participating classrooms. The #USvsHate challenge closes on March 20. Submit your students’ work here—and get a free set of One World posters.

Why Lunch Shaming Persists // Cory Collins  

Let’s Talk About It! // Teaching Tolerance Staff

Ending Curriculum Violence // Stephanie P. Jones
Sign Up to Join the Future Voters Project
The goal of our new Future Voters Project is to ensure all eligible students have the opportunity to register to vote before they graduate from high school. Check out our guidance for leading inclusive, effective school-based voter registration drives. And if you sign up to join us, we’ll keep you posted as we continue to add new resources and recommendations for ensuring all students have a chance to participate in our diverse democracy.

The Mind Online Podcast: Media Manipulation

From the coronavirus to election coverage, it’s vital that students understand how hateful ideas, misinformation and conspiracies hit the mainstream via the internet and digital media—and how to parse out the truth. Check out this episode of The Mind Online for ways to frame that learning.

Teach This: Explaining Presidential Primaries 

As the U.S. presidential primary election season continues, your students may have questions about the primary process and the reasoning behind it. Our latest Teach This article offers educators guidance for using a video with students that can open a conversation about representation and power; help students better understand the political procedures that shape our democracy; and push them to consider their role in maintaining or changing these processes.

Speaking Up Against Racism Around the New Coronavirus

The spread of the new coronavirus has become racialized, so it’s critical that educators understand the historical context and confront racist tropes and xenophobia from students and colleagues. Educators must continuously disrupt and address issues of hate and bias, which often find their way into schools. 

Check Out What We’re Reading

“Oregon Department of Education Director Colt Gill argued that the federal agency’s recent arrest of a parent at a bus stop was ‘unsafe… traumatic…and is counter to our shared values for schools and the children we serve in Oregon.” — Oregon Public Broadcasting

“Johnson skillfully navigated the lonely and often hostile ivory tower, and the result was a successful orbital flight by a U.S. astronaut during the Cold War-era space race. Her efforts paved the way for countless other black female scholars.” — The Washington Post

“We don’t want our kids to learn to change themselves anytime they’re teased or feel like they don’t fit in. We want them to stand up to that kind of stigma.” — The New York Times

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