For Educators | For Parents, Families, and Caregivers Youth and Social Media
Technology moves fast and so does social media. Like most tools, technology itself is neutral. All the sites listed can be used for many constructive purposes, linking youth to their friends and interacting in positive ways. Many youth use social media to create vibrant communities and engage in social action and ally behavior. Schools and educators are increasingly using social media to communicate with students…
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Table Talk: Family Conversations about Current Events For Parents, Families, and Caregivers Topic Summary
In 1983, a social scientist named David Chambers published a research study on children’s drawings. The study gathered information from the late 1960s and 1970s in which teachers asked 5,000 children (in three different countries) to “draw a scientist.” One pattern appeared strongly: almost all of the scientist drawings depicted men.
Through the study, Chambers was…
For Educators | For Parents, Families, and Caregivers All young people deserve the opportunity to thrive in school—academically, socially and emotionally.
Name-calling, bullying, harassment and bias often get in the way and leave students feeling marginalized in school. When certain identity groups are not represented in the curriculum and visual displays around school, this further contributes to negative academic and emotional outcomes. These biases can be minimized and…
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It’s recommended to use the curriculum in conjunction with a training from your local ADL office.
About the Elementary School Curriculum
During the elementary school years, the social and emotional development of students is a core part of their school experience. We suggest making Anti-Bias Building Blocks a regular part of your weekly lesson plans. With twenty six lessons for each grade level, it is ideal to do one lesson per week. Each lesson includes…
Unheard Voices: Stories of LGBT History For Educators 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 instructional programs.
Michael Levine was at a popular gay bar in New York City in June 1969...when it was surrounded by police. At the time, the vice squad routinely raided and emptied gay bars. Patrons usually complied with the police&mdash…
For Educators Educators sometimes aim to use simulations or role plays when teaching about historical atrocities in order to engage students more deeply, build empathy and teach the topic in an interactive way.
We frequently hear news stories about a classroom lesson that set out to try to help build empathy for the victims of the Holocaust by having students role play situations of either being “persecuted” or “privileged.” We also hear about teachers who have…
Table Talk: Family Conversations about Current Events For Parents, Families, and Caregivers Topic Summary
The Rohingya people are an ethnic minority group (the vast majority of whom are Muslim) in the country of Myanmar, a predominantly Buddhist country. The Rohingya numbered about one million people at the beginning of 2017 and represent the largest percentage of Muslim people in Myanmar, with the majority living in the Rakhine state. The Rohingya people have their own language and culture…
Over the past couple of years, we have seen an alarming increase in incidents of violent bias, including hate crimes, harassment, identity-based bullying, vandalism and more. At the same time, we have also seen ordinary citizens take action to support and protect targets and victims—from individual bystanders acting as allies to groups of people fighting for fairness and justice in their communities.
A&E’s ‘Divided States’ documentary series explores the ways in…
Rosalind's Classroom Conversations, February 2018 For Educators By Rosalind Wiseman
With my team at Cultures of Dignity, I am constantly working to improve our lesson plans for young people. Of course, some issues that young people face are universal like friendship breakups, rejection and jealousy. However, as social media increasingly integrates into young people’s social lives and influences their identity development, we have to regularly revise our tools to help them understand…
The following education resources include lesson plans, children’s books, teaching tips and strategies, discussion guides for parents/family members and civil rights resources to help educators, parents and family members, and others provide background and address the topics of immigration, immigrants and anti-immigrant bias and discrimination.
Table Talk: Family Conversations about Current Events For Parents, Families, and Caregivers Topic Summary
On December 14, 2017, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to dismantle net neutrality regulations that were passed in 2015.This action reverses the FCC’s decision during the Obama administration to have stronger control over broadband and to prevent internet service providers (ISPs), such as Comcast, AT&T and Verizon, from controlling what people can access on…
Table Talk: Family Conversations about Current Events For Parents, Families, and Caregivers Topic Summary
In recent years, there has been a lot of attention paid to the diversity of children’s books, shining a light on the lack of diversity and amplifying the need for more children’s and young adult literature that reflects our multicultural society. In 2014, an organization named We Need Diverse Books formed, following a regularly trending hashtag with the same name (…
Rosalind's Classroom Conversations, October 2017 For Educators By Rosalind Wiseman
Dignity. Respect. Courage. They’re all words with profound meaning and they’re also regularly not really understood or internalized by young people when we teach anti-bias work.
We have to get clear about the words we use.
Dignity:
From the Latin word dignitas, meaning “to be worthy.”
As in: All people have the right to be recognized for their inherent humanity and…
Table Talk: Family Conversations about Current Events For Educators | For Parents, Families, and Caregivers | Ages 12 and upTopic Summary
In October 2017, Harvey Weinstein, a very powerful producer in the movie industry for decades, was accused of sexual harassment by more than thirty women—including famous actresses such as Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Beckinsale, Ashley Judd, Rose McGowan and Angelina Jolie, among others. Weinstein’s spokesperson said in a statement that Weinstein…
A Middle School Curriculum For Educators | Grades 6, 7, 8
GRADE LEVELS: Middle School (grades 6, 7, 8)
TOPICS: Communication, Conflict Resolution, Identity, Media, Bias, Bullying and Cyberbullying, Injustice, Social Action, Student Advocacy
COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening, Language
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It's recommended to use the curriculum in conjunction with a training from your local ADL office. About the Middle…
Table Talk: Family Conversations about Current Events For Educators | For Parents, Families, and Caregivers | 11 and upIn January 2021, President Biden issued an executive order to direct federal agencies to "preserve and fortify DACA." However, in July 2021, a federal judge in Texas ruled that DACA is illegal and said the Biden administration could not approve any new applications, while not immediately impacting current recipients' status. President Biden called the ruling…
For Educators | For Students Race and racism are important topics to bring into your classroom. Because race is part of our public conversation and integrated into so many aspects of our world, young people want to and should be part of that conversation, no matter their race. White students in predominantly white classrooms should be discussing race for those reasons and because they are members of a multicultural society and world. Sometimes teachers feel reluctant to raise the topic of race…
For Educators | For Parents, Families, and Caregivers La Pirámide muestra comportamientos sesgados/prejuiciosos creciendo en complejidad de abajo hacia arriba. Aunque los comportamientos en cada nivel tienen un impacto negativo en los individuos y los grupos, a medida que uno se mueve hacia arriba de la pirámide, los comportamientos tienen consecuencias más peligrosas que ponen en peligro la vida. Como una pirámide, los niveles superiores están apoyados…
Table Talk: Family Conversations about Current Events For Parents, Families, and Caregivers | 12 and upTopic Summary
In August 2017, a group of white supremacist groups convened in Charlottesville, VA for ‘Unite the Right,’ one of the largest and most violent gatherings in the U.S. in decades. It brought together white supremacist groups including the alt right, neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan. The gathering’s stated goal was to save the statue of Confederate General…
Rosalind's Classroom Conversations, August 2017 For Educators By Rosalind Wiseman
You don’t start a fight but if someone starts one with you, you finish it.
My grandfather was the youngest of nine and the only child in his family that was born in the United States. And while he never said those exact words to me, the stories he shared about growing up in Pittsburgh were clear. You never back down. You keep fighting no matter how tough the circumstances, no matter how small you…