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Teaching Tolerance

This website provides resources that support teachers as they help their students become active citizens through a social justice lens. The resources are categorized in different topics for easy browsing and accessibility such as Classroom Resources, Professional Development and Podcasts. Teachers will be able to find a variety of resources to support their work in different subject areas as well as gain ideas and continue to develop their social justice teaching lens.

Teaching Tolerance

Example Article: Favorite Holiday Poster Projects Aren’t Inclusive

Black Education Matters

This is an amazing website with many different resources for classroom use as well as professional development material for teachers to support their critical consciousness. The resources can be used with different age group and are cross-curricular. The resources are focused on the Black Lives Matter movement and making anti-racist education practical and accessible for different grades. The website also focuses on centering and bringing forward Black and racialized voices.

Black Education Matters

Elementary, Middle, and High School Level Curricula — All Free Now and Forever

The Overcoming Obstacles life skills curriculum is organized into elementary, middle, and high school levels, each beginning with the three fundamental skills on which all other skills can be built: communication, decision making, and goal setting.
Lesson topics include service learning & citizenship, bullying prevention, conflict resolution, problem solving, confidence building, and respect.

Elementary, Middle, and High School Level Curricula — All Free Now and Forever

Teaching African Canadian History

This is an excellent website put together by historian Natasha Henry. It is a website with an abundance of resources for teachers to embed African Canadian history in a cross-curricular way. The resources, primary source documents and blog posts give insight and examples of how to do this work in the classroom.

Teaching African Canadian History

Urban Iskwew

This is a great website with colouring pages created by an Indigenous visual artist. Often times we want to teach our students authentic information from their own voices of the Indigenous community. The colouring pages on this website can be a starting point for important discussions around Orange shirt day, reconciliation etc. One of the most important aspects of this website is that it represents and shows the Indigenous community in ‘everyday ways’.

Urban Iskwew

Parents for Diversity

This is a great website for educators to interact with the Diversity Library. There are many different categories and themes such as Gender Identity and Mindfulness to explore and learn about book recommendations through an equity lens. Teachers can also check out the blog for relevant, anti-oppressive insight on various educational issues.

Parents for Diversity

The Tiny Activists

This website is devoted and committed to helping to think critically about ‘what and who is in their bookshelves”. The website provides many booklists for relevant topics and identity groups as well as corresponding information of ‘look fors’. The site also includes relevant, recent books through an equity and culturally relevant and responsive lens. This website is a great place for educators to continue their work around critical thinking and resource selection.

The Tiny Activists

Harvard University Center on the Developing Child

Through partnerships and innovative programs the Center brings forth research on pedagogy, child development, and tools that will help you develop your teaching practice to better serve your students.

Harvard University Center on the Developing Child

Math Knowledge Network

The MKN uses evidence-informed practices to improve mathematics education. The three guiding principles: addressing educator-identified needs for improved student learning, changing attitudes toward mathematics and fostering inclusion. The 4 contributing communities of practice include Math Leadership, Critical Transitions, Indigenous Knowledge, and Computational Thinking. Supported by many Ontario school boards, universities, and education organizations, the MKN is a hub for resources that you can use in your classroom, and as a tool to expand your knowledge of mathematics education to further develop your professional practice.

Math Knowledge Network

Everyday Mental Health Resource

This resource was co-developed by School Mental Health ASSIST and ETFO. It has been designed to provide K – 8 educators with evidence-based strategies to help develop the social and emotional learning skills of students. The activities were informed and field-tested by ETFO members. In addition, ETFO members were involved in a research project to determine the efficacy of the activities.

Everyday Mental Health Resource