This site provides educators with resources in order to teach tolerance - all individuals for no matter their cultural background, gender, age, size, or ability. The listing of websites includes lessons on how to teach tolerance in the classroom, informational sites on different minority groups, and other sites focusing on spreading tolerance throughout the world. This site is aimed to all teachers for all subjects.

Websites focused on Tolerance
Teaching Tolerance

This site contains information on ways to fight hate and promote tolerance in your classroom and community. The site provides many different links to other resources as well as provides lessons on promote diversity. Some features include testing for your own hidden bias (www.tolerance.org/hidden_bias/test.html), articles on recent hate crimes, and opportunities to take action against injustices.
Lessons in Tolerance

This site contains "resource[s] for learning and teaching how to understand, create, nurture, and find tolerance". There are lessons and other links to information on how to deal with and discuss issues of terrorism in the classroom. There are open student and teacher forums where students and teachers may share their own work on a variety of topics about diversity and tolerance.
 

Websites focused on Human Rights/Diversity
American Civil Liberties Union

This organization focuses on defending the civil rights of all Americans. With the Bill of Rights as the framework, the group searches for equality for all. The site provides new articles on civil rights actions occurring in today's world. The site also lists the rights of various minority groups.

Anti-Defamation League

This site provides links to sites on civil rights, combating hate, terrorism, and educational lessons on human rights. This is a link to "Close the Book on Hate" which provides 101 ways to combat prejudice (www.adl.org/prejudice/default.asp).

Center for Human Rights Education

This site provides a list of human right resources as well as ways to volunteer time toward the civil rights movement. This site also gives ways in which you can become a human rights educator. There is also a resource library complete with articles and books about the fight for human rights.

CyberSchoolBus

This site contains links to lessons on peace, poverty, and human/civil rights that can be used in fifth through twelfth grade classes. Prepared lessons come in an easy-to-follow order.
Diversity Web

This site is an interactive hub that involves students and teachers in the progress of spreading diversity into today's society. This site provides the opportunity for students to discuss their feelings about diversity with a worldwide chat room. It also provides access to other schools' actions toward promoting diversity in their environment. There are plenty of resources to further the research on this topic.

Diversity, Tolerance, and Pluralism

This site discusses diversity, religion, gender, race, and sexual orientation. This site also has links to lesson plans about discussing and promoting diversity and historical links about individuals that led the fight for diversity.

Authors of this Site
The authors of this site include Ryan McCormick, Kirk Latimer, Christine Walker, Chandra Perry, and Elizabeth Jaeblon. We are all students in Western Michigan University's course on teaching English in the secondary school setting.