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Uncommon Ground
It’s the start of a new semester, a great time to remind your students to appreciate difference. Promote the value of cross-cultural relationships in your classes this year.
This article from Teaching Tolerance on how friendships develops across these differences. A toolkit is included to help students build cross-cultural friendships.
Poetry Encourages Self-Expression
Poetry is a way for students to explore topics they might not otherwise talk about. It’s also a powerful tool for social justice.
Write about something you hate without naming the thing you hate or using the word “hate.”
Write about an experience of violence you committed, witnessed or experienced.
Think about the ways dating, arguing with a [...]
Two Worlds, One School
Building cultural awareness and harmony requires respect, open communication and the ability to compromise. Administrators at an Ohio school district with a large Amish population mastered these skills. The effort put parents at ease and allowed students to build cross-cultural friendships.
A gift from Tanenbaum on its 20th anniversary
The Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding has in relation to its 20th anniversary published this poster elaborating in short texts and pictures the religious progress and prejudice over the last 20 years>>
How to Have a Conversation
Project Interfaith has created this guide that sets helpful ground rules for personal conversations about faith and belief to ensure productive and meaningful interaction.
Multicultural education PPT
This resource is an interactive Power Point presentation about multicultural education prepared by Shazia Ajani.
Chanukkah
Learn more about the Festival of Lights, Hanukka.
Peace Education – Games and Education
The Bank of resources of Peace Education and Inter-cultural Education activities of the School For a Culture of Peace now has 50 activities in English. Their linguistic diversity is useful as many resources are additionally available in Spanish.
The School for a Culture of Peace was created in 1999 with the aim to work on culture [...]
A Teacher’s Guide to Religion in Public Schools
This teacher guide is published by Freedom Forum and is designed to provide general information on the subject of religion and public schools. The guide is now also available is Spanish.