"California Challenge: A Program for Celebrating Diversity" is a workshop for teachers sponsored by the CTA Human Rights Department. It is designed to foster understanding, acceptance and constructive relations among people of many different cultures and language backgrounds. The program can be used as professional growth training and provides continuing education credit.
CTA's Human Rights Department also offers a workshop on "Gay and Lesbian Youth: Breaking the Silence." It provides teachers with strategies for reducing hostilities toward gay and lesbian students and creating a safe learning environment for all students.
For more information, call (650) 552-5370 or visit CTA's Web site [www.CTA.org].
The Southern Poverty Law Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting hate, discrimination and intolerance. It publishes a magazine, Teaching Tolerance, and offers downloadable K-12 curriculum materials through its Web site [http://www.teachingtolerance.org/]. All materials are free to teachers.
The National Conference for Community and Justice has curriculum materials and a program on "Different People … Common Ground." Write to 975 E. Jefferson Ave., Detroit, MI 48207.
The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network is a national organization working to end anti-gay bias in public schools. For more information, call (212) 727-0135 or visit the Web site [http://www.glsen.org/].
Other Web sites worth visiting:
www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units
http://www.respectdiversity.org/
http://www.matthewshepard.org/
http://www.newlightmedia.org/
http://www.challengeday.org/