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Rest, Play, Learn! Summer vacation means time to catch up on books, movies and, well, everything you missed while focusing on the school year. Teaching Tolerance can help you catch up on anti-bias, civil rights and social jus-tice topics! Watch our on-demand webinars—alone or with colleagues—and get inspired to make your school a more equitable and welcoming place in the coming year.

While many Americans assume teach-ers frolic all summer, in reality these precious weeks are often spent work-ing: taking classes, teaching summer school, updating curricula, attending trainings, writing, getting caught up on technology, setting up classrooms for the new year or even working a sum-mer job unrelated to teaching. SOURCE: EDUTOPIA

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These webinars address a range of topics related to school climate and discipline.

Speak Up At School We hear the pejorative language in the hallway, the lunchroom and some-times the teacher’s lounge, and we know that context and relationship matter when it comes to speaking up against bias. This webinar and related resources offer strategies to make

“upstanding” part of your school’s cul-ture—for students and adults. “Strategies are easy-to-understand and use—but also important was the overall positive, ‘You can do this!’ environment created by the facilitators. Thank you!” —Anne S.

Responding to Hate and BiasJust as schools have plans in place to respond to fires, natural disasters and armed intruders, we must also be pre-pared to respond to incidents of hate and bias. Use this webinar as a jump-ing-off point for a faculty planning discussion. Together, reflect on your school’s climate, identify its existing policies and procedures for respond-ing to incidents of hate and bias, and draft an action plan.“I find the most useful part for me is the slides, the scenarios and the resource guides.” —Lisa D.

Code of Conduct: A Guide to Responsive DisciplineSummer offers time and breathing room to reflect on your classroom man-agement strengths and strategies. This on-demand webinar walks you through five shifts that can change your think-ing and practice when it comes to

You can find all listed webinars—and more!—at tolerance.org/webinars. Free registration required.

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discipline. These shifts can help you—and all adults who work in schools—make short- and long-term plans that keep students in the classroom and out of the school-to-prison pipeline. “The scenarios and the resources were the most useful part, because we were able to reflect and increase our ‘toolkit’ with more student-centered strategies for keeping students in the classroom.” —Drew K.

These webinars can help you plan his-torically and culturally relevant les-sons for the first day of school and throughout the year!

Beyond the Bus: Teaching the Unseen Story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus BoycottBeyond the Bus brings together mul-tiple resources to help educators fill instructional gaps in their coverage of the civil rights movement. Team up with colleagues in your subject

area or grade level, and learn how you can teach the full story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. “Listening to ... a group of people facing an uphill battle against the oppressor—this was truly inspiring.” —Morgan P.

45 Days of Black HistoryDo you have dedicated time this sum-mer for curriculum writing and map-ping? Consider watching the 45 Days of Black History webinar with your curriculum writing team. This webi-nar will encourage and equip you to recognize and include African-American history all year long. “As a first-year teacher, I feel like some of these points were skipped in my edu-cation and I am doing a lot of front load-ing. This will help me become a relevant and reaching teacher.” —Josephine C.

Time TipNot enough summer time to watch all these webi-nar events? No problem. Instead, plan a monthly professional viewing party and watch them with col-leagues throughout the school year. Before your viewing …

Set a schedule for the school year. (We rec-ommend limiting it to October through May.)

Share the full sched-ule with your colleagues, including time and loca-tion, if possible.

On the day of your viewing …

Provide snacks and refreshments.

Watch the full one-hour webinar.

Debrief and discuss. Brainstorm ways to

implement the ideas and strategies from the webi-nar in your practice.

After your viewing … Set a follow-up meeting

to evaluate how your plan is going.

Adjust your plan as needed.