Keep On Mixing

Keep On Mixing

Author: Teaching Tolerance Staff

Source: Teaching Tolerance

Published: November 3, 2016

Keep On Mixing Article

Key Points:

• Briefly discusses the National Mix it Up Lunch Day that previously happened on October 25. On this day, students are encouraged to sit with other students they do not usually sit with during lunch and learn something new about them or their history, ethnicity, race, or culture. The idea is to address pervasive social divisions and help others learn more about what varieties and types of people exist in our own communities.
• The goal of the article was for schools and teachers to continue mixing it up in the classroom all year. Students should constantly be mixing it up and learning about

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While I was looking for a non-school setting for our practicum observations, I decided to check into a website. I remember hearing about Albertina Kerr in the past because one of our students received services from them a couple years ago. This is a great video showing a family's experience with their mental health services.

Making “A Place in the Middle” in Every Classroom | Teaching Tolerance

Making “A Place in the Middle” in Every Classroom 
Teaching Tolerance May 4, 2015 by Dean Hamer
Audience: educators, principals, administrators, parents, school leaders, students
Key Points: Prejudice reduction and classroom practice, how schools serve diverse students can change the outlook and those students become respected and admired for their important role in perpetuating cultural knowledge and traditions. The story follows a transgender teacher in Hawaii for 2 years  and it's a jumping off place for students to think and talk about how every person's identity is comprised of multiple interacting facets. 
Relevance: As educators seeing how Hina's teaching to K-12 schools, which led to the production of  a youth-friendly, short version of the film called A Place in the Middle that has been excerpted for the Perspectives for a Diverse America  anthology can be used to  help students appreciate the value of inclusion, the strengths they inherit from their cultural heritage and their own power to create a school climate of honor and respect.