Source: Teaching Tolerance
Lack of education about religious diversity has left students—particularly Muslim and Sikh students—vulnerable to bias and bullying by classmates and teachers who don’t understand the full context of religious extremism. This hostility can make it difficult for students to learn and even puts their physical safety in jeopardy. Expanding your students’ knowledge of world religions—and the diversity that exists within them—is critical to combating these dangerous stereotypes and fostering empathy in the school community. This on-demand webinar is from the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding and it explores strategies that can help you teach about extremism accurately and safely, such as discussing extremism across multiple religions, examining the economic and political contexts in which extremism arises, highlighting religious peacemakers and empowering your students to make their school more inclusive.
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Religious Freedom and LGBT Equality (Southern Poverty Law Center)
Source: Teaching Tolerance
This on-demand webinar demonstrated classroom activities that can engage students in understanding primary sources, recognizing patterns and trends across time, and evaluating how some religious freedom claims contribute to the backlash against the advancement of LGBT rights. Special guest speaker was David Dinielli, deputy legal director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s LGBT Rights Project.
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Let’s Talk! Discussing Black Lives Matter With Students (Southern Poverty Law Center)
Source: Teaching Tolerance
This on-demand webinar explored Black Lives Matter, an activist group that media, schools and communities often struggle to understand. In this webinar you’ll learn about the roots of Black Lives Matter, its platform and its connections to past social justice movements. You’ll also gain tools for engaging students about the Black Lives Matter movement in the classroom.
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Let’s Talk! Discussing Whiteness (Southern Poverty Law Center)
Source: Teaching Tolerance
This on-demand webinar will guide you in reflecting on and defining white privilege through multimedia and group chats. It discusses whiteness as a racial identity with the understanding that acknowledging whiteness—and the privilege and power attached to it—is a necessary step in working toward racial justice.
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Equity Matters: Developing Empathy (Southern Poverty Law Center)
Source: Teaching Tolerance
Educators will learn about the impact of teaching and modeling empathy in their classrooms in this on-demand webinar. Participants responded to real-life scenarios and gained strategies for building empathy into their own classroom practices—and for teaching students to empathize with others. Guest speaker was Ronald Smith, director of New Way.
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