September 1, 2020

A Call to Educators to Bring Their Classrooms to Reality

Students don’t get to stop coping with living through a pandemic just because classes start. In “Pandemic Pedagogy,” Dr. Kiara Lee-Heart explains how she’s made her writing courses a space where students can learn about the pandemic, become their own experts and engage in authentic, meaningful learning during an uncertain and traumatic time.

The New YA // Julia Delacroix

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

Teaching America’s Interwoven Histories // Monita K. Bell
Join Us for a Webinar With My School Votes! 
Join us at 3:30 CT Thursday, September 3, for a webinar with My School Votes to learn about strategies for building school-based voter registration campaigns. You’ll become familiar with resources and guides and explore examples of plans you can implement and adapt. You’ll also learn about our Future Voters Project and leave with insight to help boost your school community’s civic engagement. Register here!

Educators’ and Students’ Rights During COVID-19

In a new Q&A with Teaching Tolerance, a children’s rights attorney and a policy analyst from the Southern Poverty Law Center explain educators’ rights to workplace safety, students’ rights to education access and what it might take to advocate for both. Read their answers to critical questions facing schools, educators, students and families trying to navigate learning during a pandemic.

Voter Registration in a Time of Pandemic and Protests

Teaching Tolerance’s Future Voters Project includes “Teach This” discussion guides for addressing current events during this unprecedented election season. Use this discussion guide that includes a video, articles, census data and original research to talk with students about youth voter registration and turnout in this election season. For more resources on teaching about elections and voting, check out our Future Voters Project.

Resources for Confronting White Nationalism

Educators can play a critical role in recognizing and addressing white nationalism. Two authors of Western States Center’s toolkit, Confronting White Nationalism in Schools, explain how in an interview with Teaching Tolerance. Learn more about what educators can do to help guard against this rhetoric and how the Confronting White Nationalism in Schools toolkit can help.

Check Out What We’re Reading

“There have been all sorts of protests about race, gender, money and nationality in American and Olympic sports history, but they all have this in common: the constant struggle for justice, supported by the U.S. Constitution.” — The Undefeated

“T’Challa as the Black Panther had existed as a comic-book superhero since Stan Lee and Jack Kirby conceived of him in 1966. But it was Chadwick Boseman who brought the fictional Wakandan monarch and superhero to the big screen, whose exceptional talent gave new life to the groundbreaking character and transfixed a global audience.” — The Atlantic

“And now, the only platform we have to reach our students, to create that hub of thinking and activity and laughter and creativity that we all desperately miss, deadnames our trans students — drives parts of them from the room, erasing their voices.” — Rethinking Schools
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