January 5, 2021

Recommit to Critical Conversations

As we return to school, we can commit to checking bias in ourselves and others and speaking up every time students or colleagues make biased comments. These resources can help prepare and facilitate those critical conversations.

Rethinking Poverty and Casual Conversations // Ann Van Etten 

This Conversation Is Anti-Racist // Monita K. Bell and Cory Collins

The Weaponization of Whiteness in Schools // Coshandra Dillard
Online Teaching Can Be Culturally Responsive
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, many teachers and students are returning from winter break to virtual classrooms. Though distance learning is not without challenges, online classes can offer new opportunities for culturally responsive teaching. Here’s what one educator is trying with her fifth grade students.

Why I Teach: I Teach for Black Girls Like Me

Bria Wright understands the impact one teacher can have—to help or to harm. In the latest edition of Why I Teach, Wright wrote that she teaches “for the little Black girls who have their voices misread as attitude and not confidence and passion.” Read more about how an experience in seventh grade solidified her calling into teaching.

Supporting Students Through Coronavirus

We’ve developed resources to support student well-being and learning during school closures, including articles about supporting specific student populations, addressing coronavirus racism, using trauma-informed approaches to teaching and more. We’re updating this page as we publish new pieces.

Download ‘Black Lives
Matter’ One World Poster

Our newest One World poster was created by Chicago designer Adé Hogue. He originally approached this piece simply, but then a scanner mishap changed everything. “The [poster] is now a collage of a hand-drawn lettering piece that has been scanned and manipulated on the scanner bed,” Hogue says. “I think it helps amplify the many times we’ve felt we need to shout this phrase.”

Check Out What We’re Reading

“Diversified curriculums are not progress if they are not institutionalized and sustained for the long term.” — Teen Vogue

“Creating Indigenous heroes we can be truly proud of allows us to reframe skewed histories and support the notion of cultural continuance: we are still here and will continue to survive into future generations.” — We Need Diverse Books

“2020 was — to borrow a phrase from a popular kid's book — a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year. And for parents, one of the year's hardest jobs was trying to explain current events to young kids.” — KQED
Have a comment, question or idea for Teaching Tolerance? Drop us a line at [email protected].
Help us avoid the spam filter! Add [email protected] to your address book.
            
Copyright © 2021 Teaching Tolerance, All rights reserved.

Our mailing address is:
400 Washington Avenue
Montgomery, AL 36104
334-956-8200 | tolerance.org

Want to change how you receive these emails?
You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.