Engage students in understanding and exploring cyberbullying and the issues raised by online bullying.
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Teach students about weight bias and identify stereotypes and bias associated with weight bias.
Bullying is a major problem in our schools. When it targets aspects of a person’s identity, it is called identity-based bullying, and may include bias about appearance, race, culture, gender and gender expression, language, religion, socioeconomic status, disability and sexual orientation. According to GLSEN’s 2012 report Playground and Prejudice: Elementary School Climate in the United States, two-thirds of elementary students attribute the bullying and name‐calling that…
Teach students about transgender identity and issues and the barriers faced by people who are transgender or gender non-conforming.
Teach students about the history of discrimination and racism in the U.S., the struggle for civil rights and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Teach students about the DREAM Act, its background and engage them in reflecting on different perspectives on the DREAM Act.
GRADE LEVEL: Middle School, High School
COMMON CORE STANDARDS: Reading, Speaking and Listening “We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.” These are the words of the landmark Supreme Court decision on May 17, 1954 that declared segregated schools unconstitutional. Sixty years later, even though much progress has been made, there are still great…
Teach students about Donald Sterling’s 2014 statements and discuss the different responses to those statements.
GRADE LEVEL: Elementary School
COMMON CORE STANDARDS: Reading, Writing, Language Using Poetry to Teach about Identity
Reading and writing poetry can provide an opening for young people to explore the various aspects of their identity, including their name, race and ethnicity, physical characteristics and more.
April is National Poetry Month, a good opportunity to explore poetry with your students. Because poetry does not require strict sentence structure or the usual grammar rules…
GRADE LEVEL: Middle School, High School
COMMON CORE STANDARDS: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening César Chávez was a Mexican American labor activist, civil rights advocate and leader of the United Farm Workers. During the 1960s and 70s, he was a leading voice for migrant farm workers. His leadership focused national attention on these laborers’ working conditions, which eventually led to improvements. In 2008, President Obama proclaimed March 31 Cé…
GRADE LEVEL: High School
COMMON CORE STANDARDS: Reading, Writing, Language What are Microaggressions?
“Microaggression” is a term that was coined in the 1970s and more recently used by Derald Wing Sue, a Columbia University professor, to describe the “brief and commonplace verbal, behavioral or environmental indignities—whether intentional or unintentional—which communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative slights and insults to people from…
Teach students about Derrick Coleman, learning more about his life and reflecting on a story written by a Deaf teenager.
Teach students about marriage equality for same-sex couples and the history of it.
GRADE LEVEL: Middle School, High School In celebration and memory of the life of Nelson Mandela, this special edition of the Current Events Classroom provides students the opportunity to learn, in several ways, more about Nelson Mandela and his extraordinary life.
Teach students about hate crimes, the annual hate crimes report and the 2009 Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act.
Teach students about how toys are influenced by gender stereotypes and consider how children and families are impacted by those messages.
GRADE LEVEL: High School
COMMON CORE STANDARDS: Reading, Speaking and Listening, Language Arts This lesson provides an opportunity for students to discuss the homicide of Renisha McBride, who was shot to death while seeking help after being in a car accident. Similar to Trayvon Martin, both victims were black and in both cases, the shooter was white. Also similar was the perpetrator’s claim of self-defense. Students will learn more about these cases and analyze the role of…
GRADE LEVEL: High School
COMMON CORE STANDARDS: Reading, Writing, Language Arts This lesson provides an opportunity for students to reflect on the news story about two Miami Dolphins football players in a situation involving bullying and bias, and which resulted in one player leaving the team and the other player’s suspension. The situation has launched a national conversation about bullying, hazing, masculinity, physical and verbal abuse and locker room behavior. ADL has…
GRADE LEVEL: High School
COMMON CORE STANDARDS: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening, Language On the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, ADL brings together classroom resources for this special curriculum unit to reinforce the significance of this act, signed by President Ronald Reagan on August 10, 1988. This law issued a formal apology and gave reparations to the 60,000 surviving Japanese Americans who were a part of the 120,000 Japanese Americans…
GRADE LEVEL: Middle School, High School
COMMON CORE STANDARDS: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening, Language In response to the lack of representation of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in school curricula and disproportionate incidents of bullying and violence against LGBT youth, ADL, GLSEN and StoryCorps collaborated to create Unheard Voices, an oral history and curriculum project that will help educators to integrate LGBT history, people and issues into their…