The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee provides advice to educators as well as action alerts.
Go to: http://www.adc.org/education/advice.htm
http://www.adc.org/action/actionalerts.html
The National Association of School Psychologists provide nine areas for teaching about tolerance.
Go to: http://www.nasponline.org/NEAT/tolerance.html
Beyond Blame, a Reaction to the Terrorist Attack
The Education Development Center (EDC) has produced this mini-curriculum focusing on concepts of justice and particularly on mitigating the hostile climate for Arab-Americans and others who may be blamed or victimized by reactions. The materials are free and can be downloaded or obtained from EDC in hardcopy.
Go to: http://www.edc.org/spotlight/schools/beyondblame.htm
Tolerance.org
The Southern Poverty Law Center, a national non-profit civil rights organization,
has a wealth of resources on teaching and practice of tolerance as well as "watch sites" for current events of concern, such as the attacks on Arab, Muslim, Sikh and other communities.
Go to: http://www.tolerance.org/
The LA County Commission on Human Relations offers a number of publications.
Go to: http://humanrelations.co.la.ca.us/Our_publications/
Information on Promoting Tolerance after the September 11 Terrorist Attacks
From the National School Public Relations Association.
Go to: http://www.nspra.org/
Talking to Children About Violence and Other Sensitive and Complex Issues in the World
and
Responding to Violent Events by Building Community: Action Ideas for Students and Schools
From Educators for Social Responsibility comes a set of free lessons customized to help educators and students discuss and understand the attacks of September 11th, war, peace, conflict, retaliation, prejudice, discrimination, propaganda, and a range of divergent points of view.
Go to: http://www.esrnational.org/
