Community reviews for Learning for Justice

This is a great tool for adding relevance to my history curriculum. It also helps us deal with sensitive issues that some students face. However, there are more lessons for U.S. history and contemporary history than other subjects.

I love everything about "Teaching Tolerance." The resources provided on this site can be used in individual classrooms or for community building within an entire school. The website provides articles that are thought-provoking and that address situations that many teachers, nationwide, face on a daily basis. Not only does this site provide classroom resources, but it also provides schools with opportunities and ideas for worthwhile, high quality professional development.

It really lets the students experience differing views and lets them develop their own conclusions. Great resource for in class debates, Socratic activities, and reserach.

This site is as useful for creating lesson plans as for use withing a lesson. It addresses controversial subjects in cohesive and comprehensive manner. Students are forced to think about things they don't normally think about. It is not the most engaging site, and most of the content is static.

As a graphite accelerated educator, I highly recommend this resource to teachers of all age groups and subjects. Teaching Tolerance provides materials, lessons, and ideas for activism (like their mix-it-up at lunch campaign). I really like the in-depth, specific lessons (like Music in the (Civil Rights) Movement), that allows me to take my regular lessons a step farther, or to jigsaw lessons and allow students to explore their own interests. This is a project from the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is something I think people would want to know.

I find that the lessons I have selected on www.teachingtolerance.com are well-written with clearly defined learning objectives, essential questions., and easily aligned with the ELA Common Core Standards. Not only are the lessons, film kits and periodicals free to teachers, but the content is fresh and engaging for students. For instance, the film kit "One Survivor Remembers" is an online documentary in a streaming format. Investigating the resources on this site is well worth your time!

I can not express how impressed I am with the tools and informational resources available on the this site. Teachers and students alike are offered the unique opportunity to combine educational standards of the content area to current, relevant situations in the lives of the students attending our schools. The website is easy to navigate and is a wonderful free resource for all teaches of all grades.