A Teaching Kit for the Middle and Upper Grades "The Children's March" tells the story of how the young people of Birmingham, Ala., braved fire hoses and police dogs in 1963 and brought segregation to its knees. Their heroism complements discussions about the ability of today's young people to be catalysts for positive social change. "The Children's March" kit includes: A 40-minute teachers' edition of the Academy Award-winning documentary film, available in VHS or DVD format, with closed-captioning; and A teacher's guide with 9 standards-based lesson plans for social studies, language arts and music classrooms. Produced by Teaching Tolerance in association with Home Box Office (HBO), "The Children's March," a film by Tell the Truth Pictures   This educational kit is FREE to schools! Download an order form (PDF). Teacher Resources View Activity 1 and Activity 6 from the teacher's guide online! Share your ideas. How do you get your students excited about social justice activism?

Also on Tolerance.org  Rethinking Schools Kids Come In All Sizes The ABCs of Service-Learning Anti-Bullying Activities / Surveys The ABCs of Bullying BULLYING: Guidelines for Teachers Speak Up!  A guide to interrupting everyday bias and bigotry The Power of Words curriculum is about the language that captures the multiethnic temper of our times. Its lessons encourage us to explore the words used in the United States to label ethnic groups, women and sexual minorities and to examine the ways in which these words reveal our nation's social landscape. The Power of Words offers standards-based lesson plans for use in language arts and social studies classrooms; most are appropriate for use in grades 9 and up. Many can be adapted for lower grades and across subject areas. The curriculum is based on cultural anthropologist Philip Herbst's groundbreaking dictionaries, The Color of Words: An Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Ethnic Bias in the United States and Wimmin, Wimps and Wallflowers: An Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Gender and Sexual Orientation Bias in the United States. These books, published by Intercultural Press, are no longer in print. The books are not needed to complete the lessons presented here. Mix-It-Up students offer tips for adults in With, Not For: Helping vs Hindering Youth More Activities Teaching Tolerance’s educational kits and subscriptions to its magazine are FREE to: classroom teachers, school librarians, school counselors, school administrators, professors of education, leaders of home school networks, youth directors at houses of worship and employees of youth-serving nonprofit organizations. To receive FREE materials, simply download and return our free product order form (PDF).

And Teachers can apply for an up-to-$250-grant for youth-directed activist projects. Tolerance.org has grant applications at http://www.tolerance.org/teens/grants.jsp Grantors are looking for projects that focus on: Youth leadership — i.e., projects created and carried out by youth activists; Collaborative efforts across social boundaries — i.e., different youth groups or clubs working together, or school-based clubs working with community-based organizations; Continuing efforts to identify, cross or challenge social boundaries — i.e., the funded project isn't "the end" of the effort

TELL ME YOUR STORIES utilizes the fascinating tradition of Oral History to engage students with family and community, while deepening the involvement in their school curriculum. For Curriculum and Support Materials visit: www.tellmeyourstories.org  

Over 625 images of art, maps and lesson plans exploring Asia's diverse countries and cultures, can be found at  www.askasia.org

Creating Caring Communities has created a list of additional resources, for educators trying to reduce school violence, at http://www.bullyproofing.org/resources1.html

PBS has an online archive of interdisciplinary activities, exploring diversity and culture at: http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/search/standards_results.shtm?query=diversity%20cultural&start=1&end=20&subjects=NULL&grades=NULL
Type in "diversity cultural" in the search engine for over 400 lesson plans and activities.

For more information on Service Learning, try these recommended websites: http://www.servicelearning.org/ and www.service-learningpartnership.org

Teacher training workshops are held by and at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC - visit their website at http://www.ushmm.org/education/foreducators/index.php?content=currentapplications/

The National Association for Multicultural Education offers training, resources and conferences for educators - visit www.nameorg.org   White you're there, go to the NAME ListServ responses to Paul Gorski's poll What Are the 10 Most Important Books Related to Equity, Social Justice and/or Multicultural Education

EdChange's Multicultural Pavilion provides resources for educators, including curriculum guides, self-reflection activities and a list of online resources at www.edchange.org/multicultural

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