Read aloud in a calm and reassuring voice. Take a few breaths in and out at an easy pace in order to calm your body and mind. Let your mind wander until you get to a path. This path is peaceful and calm. Allow yourself to walk down the path for a while in your imagination. Go slowly and pay...

South Africa and Black South Africans Apartheid was the law in South Africa from 1948 to 1994. Apartheid laws enforced segregation by race and kept the white majority in power, while denying black South Africans basic human rights and freedoms. After years of pressure from other countries, South...

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Based on excerpts from "Medicine of Mirth" by Mary Desmond Pinkowish and "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Office" by Nancy Mann Jackson in Ode Magazine, August, 2009.Cut the sheet into three separate slips for three small groups....

From "The Big One: Teaching About Climate Change." Rethinking Schools magazine, summer 2009. Used by permission. Cut the roles into separate strips of paper. Read the introduction to the group before beginning the role play....

Scenario 1: My sister drives me crazy. She just goes along with whatever her friends say. Scenario 2: My history teacher told me that I need to listen more and talk less. That's the same thing my art teacher told me. I do listen. They just ramble on too long. Scenario 3: My dad always talks about...

1. Make eye contact about once every 5 seconds and whistle the entire time. 2. Make eye contact about once every 5 seconds and then yawn. 3. Keep staring at the same corner of the room and don't take your eyes off of that corner. 4. Slouch in your chair, stare down at the floor and look up about...

Scenario 1: You are a single mother with two children in elementary school. You work full-time as a sales clerk at The Gap. You make 14,250 dollars a year and have cash savings of 450 dollars. Scenario 2: You are a father with three children, ages 2, 4 and 6. You work full-time as a fire fighter,...

For every Israeli great-grandfather with memories of escaping anti-Semitism in Europe and finding a beloved homeland in British Mandated Palestine, there is a Palestinian great-grandfather with memories of Palestine as the only beloved homeland he has ever known....

165 BCE—The last Jewish state of biblical times is established following a revolt in Judea 63 BCE—Roman conquerors place Judea under the Roman province of Palestine 70 CE—Romans suppress a revolt and the following centuries include the dispersion, banishment and selling as slaves of the Jewish...

1. Sophia, a 5-year old girl, walks out on the diving board. Her mom is in the swimming pool below encouraging her to jump. Sophia's legs are shaking. She tells her mom that she doesn't think she can do it. Sophia's mom offers more words of encouragement....

Adapted from The Line Between Us: Teaching About the Border and Mexican Immigration by Bill Bigelow (Milwaukee: Rethinking Schools, Ltd., 2006). Corn: The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is an agreement between the United States, Mexico and Canada that went into effect on January 1,...

There was something physically different about me. It was easy to see in the day and especially easy to see at night. Others would call me names and laugh at me. Then one foggy night the very thing about me that everyone laughed at was needed....

By the courtesy of the Association of Mouth and Foot Painting Artists Worldwide. Used with permission.First painting by Tony Nguyen. Second painting by Onix Flores. Printing This Handout Download a high-resolution copy of this Handout (PDF) for printing.

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By Charles Allan Gilbert, American Illustrator (1873 — 1929).Printing This Handout Download a high-resolution copy of this Handout (PDF) for printing.

Parents should carefully monitor how their children use the Internet. School violence is a major problem in this country. Bullying is a normal part of adolescent behavior. Prejudiced people cannot be changed. Jokes that focus on ethnicity, race, or sexual orientation reinforce prejudice....

From Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice: A Sourcebook by Maurianne Adams, Lee Anne Bell, Pat Griffin (New York: Routledge Press, 2007).Copy the diagram on newsprint, but not the accompanying text. You will provide the text in the course of the activity. The inner circle is the sphere of Self.

Who thinks of justice unless he knows injustice? — Diane Glancy, Cherokee poet When a just cause reaches its flood-tide... whatever stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming power. — Carrie Chapman Catt, suffragette Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. — Martin...

Come into this circle of community. Come into this sacred space. Be not tentative. Bring your whole self! Bring the joy that makes your heart sing. Bring your kindness and your compassion. Bring also your sorrow, your pain. Bring your brokenness and your disappointments....