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AASL - Best Websites for Teaching and Learning

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AASL - Best Websites for Teaching and Learning

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The application for this award is currently closed. The next award cycle will open on September 1, 2024, and will close on February 1, 2025.

Overview

AASL's Best Digital Tools are recognized for fostering qualities of:

Innovation/Creativity

Active Participation

Collaboration

User-Friendly

Encourages Exploration

Information/Reference

Eligibility

Nominations may be submitted by developers, school librarians, or the general public. For a tool to qualify as "digital," it must be accessible remotely (website, app, etc.).

NEW - Tools that have been recognized previously may be submitted for repeat recognition. For tools that were recognized within three years or less (2020, 2021, or 2022) the committee will consider tools that demonstrate progress, improvements, or changes since the previous recognition. Progress is considered both in terms of new features or tools, but also for improvements in usability and accessibility.

Tools recognized prior to 2020 may be submitted for consideration without the need to demonstrate progress over time.

Preparation for Application

Incomplete applications will not reviewed. Please prepare the following information prior to submitting:

If your tool has received the Best Digital Tools recognition in the past three years (see lists below) you must submit any improvements, changes, or progress to the tool for consideration.

Committee members must receive full access to your tool including any features that are behind paywalls. Access must remain available through April 1.

If your tool has a pricing structure that is not available for public viewing an example of pricing must be included.

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* Please note: This downloadable version is for informational purposes only. All nominations must be submitted online, via the Apply Now button that will appear at the top of the page when the next award season opens in early September.

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Write the World
A free online global community where teens write, review, and share. A non-profit dedicated to developing teens' writing and critical thinking skills and equipping them with the confidence and competence to change the world, one word at a time. Privacy Policy. Grades 7-12

ChessKid.com
ChessKid.com is the scholastic extension of Chess.com, the #1 online chess site, and serves more than 3 million kids around the globe with lessons offered in English, Spanish, French, Korean and other languages. ChessKid is working to introduce chess education to as many students as possible worldwide and we pride ourselves as being the safest place for kids to learn and play chess in and out of the school. Media Specialists use ChessKid.com in their centers to help students enhance their creativity, improve their power of concentration, develop and expand critical thinking skills, boost memory and retention, and achieve superior academic performance. Find out if your school is eligible for FREE ChessKid accounts through our annual grant program at ChessKid.com. Privacy Policy Grades: K-12

The Choices Program
The Choices Program, based at Brown University, creates engaging digital educational resources and makes innovative scholarship accessible to diverse classrooms. Choices curriculum empowers students to understand the relationship between history and current issues while developing the analytical skills to become thoughtful global citizens. Choices curriculum resources tell an inclusive, responsible history, while also encouraging students to challenge and grapple with this history in the ways that historians do. Choices provides educators with high-quality, digital curriculum content that is used in all levels of high school classrooms as well as many middle schools and introductory level college courses. Choices currently offers curricula for U.S. History, World History, Current Issues, and Geography, as well as many electives. "Teaching with the News" from the Choices Program is a series of free online lesson plans and resource guides that connect classrooms to current events in the news. The Choices Program also offers a free collection of more than 1,700 short educational videos. Privacy Policy Grades: 6-12

iVOX
iVOX is a storytelling app that not only gives young readers the immersive technology they have come to expect from hours of video gaming, but which has been proven to support literacy development. Students interact with the app, allowing them to view the story from many angles and in some cases bring up further information. The story is read aloud for them as the words are highlighted at the bottom of the screen - a multi-modal approach that has been proven to aid in literacy development. Privacy Policy Grades: PreK-4
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Brian Barrett It's Time for an RSS Revival. Wired, March 30, 2018

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Brian Barrett It's Time for an RSS Revival. Wired, March 30, 2018

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After years of letting algorithms make up our minds for us, the time is right to go back to basics.

The modern web contains no shortage of horrors, from ubiquitous ad trackers to all-consuming platforms to YouTube comments, generally. Unfortunately, there's no panacea for what ails this internet we've built. But anyone weary of black-box algorithms controlling what you see online at least has a respite, one that's been there all along but has often gone ignored. Tired of Twitter? Facebook fatigued? It's time to head back to RSS.

For many of you, that means finding a replacement for Digg Reader, which went the way of the ghost this month. Or maybe you haven't used RSS since five years ago, when Google Reader, the beloved firehose of news headlines got the axe. For others, it means figuring out what the heck an RSS feed is in the first place-we'll get to that in just a minute. And some of you have already moved on to the next article in your Feedly queue.

No matter what your current disposition, though, in this age of algorithmic overreach there's something deeply satisfying about finding stories beyond what your loudest Twitter follows shared, or that Facebook's News Feed optimized into your life. And lots of tools that can get you there.

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication (or Rich Site Summary) and it was first stitched into the tapestry of the open web around the turn of the millennium. Its aim is straightforward: to make it easy to track updates to the content of a given website in a standardized format.

In practice, and for your purposes, that means it can give you a comprehensive, regularly updated look at all of the content your favorite sites publish throughout the day. Think of it as the ultimate aggregator; every morsel from every source you care about, fed directly to you. Or, more commonly, fed to you through an intermediary known as an RSS feed reader, software that helps you wrangle all of those disparate headlines into something remotely manageable.

The difference between getting news from an RSS reader and getting it from Facebook or Twitter or Nuzzel or Apple News is a bit like the difference between a Vegas buffet and an a la carte menu. In either case, you decide what you actually want to consume. But the buffet gives you a whole world of options you otherwise might never have seen.

"There are multiple approaches to connecting to news. Social felt pretty interesting at first, but when you mix social and algorithmic, you can easily get into these noise bubbles, or areas where you don't necessarily feel 100 percent in control of the algorithm," says Edwin Khodabakchian, cofounder and CEO of popular RSS reader Feedly. "A tool like Feedly gives you a more transparent and controllable way to connect to the information you need."

With 14 million users, Feedly is the largest RSS reader on the market. And it's easy to see why; it's as feature-full as one could hope for, and has been around since 2008. (It also inherited a sizeable chunk of Google Reader's jilted audience.) It's far from your only option, though.

All RSS readers function within the same basic outline. You tell them what RSS feeds you'd like to follow- The New York Times, say, or WIRED-and they collect every new headline those sites churn out, offering anything from a snippet of information to the full story, depending on how much the publisher allows. Each puts a slightly different spin on the process from there.

Feedly, for instance, has for the last two years gravitated toward being a tool for research rather than passive entertainment. That's partly in response to platforms eating the open web. "If you go after entertainment, you're not competing against other reader news tools. You're really competing with Instagram and other things people do to kill time," says Khodabakchian. "On the other hand, if you think of this as an intelligence tool, or research assistant, we see a huge and increasing demand for that."

Still, Feedly has plenty to offer casual users. It has a clean user interface, and the free version of its service lets you follow 100 sources, categorized into up to three feeds-think News, Sports, Humor, or wherever your interests lie. It also shows how popular each story is, both on Feedly and across various social networks, to give you a sense of what people are reading without letting that information dictate what you see. Paid accounts-of which Feedly has about 100,000-get you more feeds and integrations, faster updates, and better tools for teams.

For more of a throwback feel, you might try The Old Reader, which strips down the RSS reader experience while still emphasizing a social component.

"In terms of evolution, we're coming from a different perspective," says Ben Wolf, whose Levee Labs acquired The Old Reader in 2013. "We're trying to keep things as they were."

For the million or so Old Reader users, that means not many bells and whistles. Even the mechanism to add new feeds feels just a touch more onerous than you'll find elsewhere. But once you do get properly organized, it's a fast and light experience, and if you can convince some friends to join, its social features will help you cut through the clutter. Most of all, there's not much to get in the way of the headlines, which is what you came for in the first place.

Power users, meanwhile, might try Inoreader, which offers for free many of the features-unlimited feeds and tags, and some key integrations-Feedly reserves for paid accounts. "I would say that at the moment Feedly is ahead of us in terms of mass appeal design look and UX, which is something we will try to tackle with our upcoming redesign," says Victor Stankov, Inoreader's business development manager. "Hardcore nerds love us way more than Feedly."

And those are just three options of many. The point being: In 2018, it's easy to find an RSS reader out there that suits your needs. Which, in hindsight, is no small miracle.

Five years ago, when Wolf took over The Old Reader, he offered a prescient insight: "How long will it be before your Facebook stream is so full of promoted content, bizarre algorithmic decisions, and tracking cookie based shopping cart reminders that you won't be getting any valuable information," Wolf wrote. "For as little as $60, a business can promote a page to Facebook users. It won't be long before your news feed is worthless."

Which, well, here we are. Not only that, but two-thirds of Americans get at least some of their news from social media, according to a recent Pew Research Center study, leaving traditional sources behind.

The platformization of the web has claimed many victims, RSS readers included. Google Reader's 2013 demise was a major blow; the company offed it in favor of "products to address each user's interest with the right information at the right time via the most appropriate means," as it Google executive Richard Gingras put it at the time. In other words, letting Google Now decide what you want. And the popular Digg Reader, which was born in response to that shuttering, closed its doors this week after a nearly four-year run.

Despite those setbacks, though, RSS has persisted. "I can't really explain it, I would have thought given all the abuse it's taken over the years that it would be stumbling a lot worse," says programmer Dave Winer, who helped create RSS.

It owes that resilience in part thanks to social media burnout. Stankov says search traffic to Inoreader has nearly doubled since 2015, all organically. "RSS readers have not only survived in the era of social media, but are driving more and more attention back to themselves, as people are realizing the pitfalls" of relying too much on Facebook and others, Stankov says.

RSS readers obviously have their own shortcomings as well. The firehose approach can easily overwhelm, especially when multiple outlets all publish the same news at the same time. There are various solutions to this; Stankov points to filtering tools that help you skip the things you don't care about, while Wolf says The Old Reader has experimented with tools to help highlight just one story when there are dozens of near-identicals.

Different publishers also offer RSS feeds of varyingly helpful degrees. The New York Times and The Ringer, for instance, offer granular choices to help focus on the topics you care about, while others offer either only one big jumble or oddly sparse updates. Sites that publish infrequently can easily get lost in the mix. And multimedia elements sometimes don't cross the transom; FiveThirtyEight recently ran a fun, interactive trade war game that RSS couldn't parse.

The readers all have settings to help cope with these issues to varying degrees, where possible; it's just a matter of how many hours you want to spend shaping your RSS bonsai.

"Social media has mass appeal because it is simple to understand and use, with little to no challenges involved for the user," says Stankov. "RSS is whole different game, where the main goal is for the end user to research and find valuable information sources, as well as periodically clean up the news feed from irrelevant noise." (Those who want a truly passive experience outside of Facebook and Twitter might look instead to aggregators like Apple News or Flipboard, or even Texture, which for $10 a month gives you full issues of dozens of magazine titles to flip through.)

Even with minimal tweaking, though, returning to RSS this week offered up a few fun surprises I never would have seen otherwise: the Yankees getting in trouble for player beer-foam art; an American contending for the world chess championship; the latest on Ben Affleck's hilariously oversized back tattoo. These aren't the stories everyone is reading. But they're the ones I want to read.

While RSS readers offer a sanctuary from the algorithmic approach, they're also not opposed to using algorithms of their own, as they continue to evolve and regain relevance. That's not quite the conflict it might seem.

"Machines can have a big role in helping understand the information, so algorithms can be very useful, but for that they have to be transparent and the user has to feel in control," says Khodabakchian. "What's missing today with the black-box algorithms is where they look over your shoulder, and don't trust you to be able to tell what's right."

With its focus on professional users, Feedly hopes AI can better connect users with niche experts. Wolf, too, touts AI as a way to better flag standout stories. "I think algorithms are great," Wolf says. "I think the problem is when the algorithms are run by advertising companies."

And despite Digg Reader's demise, new RSS tools continue to come online. Even Winer has re-entered the fray, this week introducing feedbase, a database of feeds that makes it easy to see what others subscribe to, ideally prompting discovery and an even more open approach. "I thought it might be a good time to try to add an important feature to RSS that was always part of the vision, dynamic subscription lists," Winer says.

Still, the lasting appeal of RSS remains the parts that haven't changed: the unfiltered view of the open web, and the chance to make your own decisions about what you find there.

"The most amazing thing to me about RSS is that no one really went away from it," says Wolf. "It still exists. Somehow through all of this. It's crazy, in a way, that when you go away from RSS and then come back to it, it's all still there."

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Jackman - 20 Free Tech Tools For Teachers

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Free tech tools for teachers have the power to transform classrooms, empower learners, and democratize education. In this article, you'll find the best free tech tools for teachers that can massively level up your lessons, boost your students' performance outcomes, raise engagement levels, and ultimately save your sanity as a teacher. But first, let's dig a little deeper into the importance of these technological resources for teachers.

Importance of technological resources for teachers

The use of technological resources for teachers has already increased over the years, but it was only during the pandemic that their importance was greatly magnified. These tools made remote learning possible by allowing the majority of educators-in both schools and businesses-to communicate with students from wherever they may be.

Incorporating these technological resources has also helped teachers to improve their learning methods and better engage students. And this is mostly attributed to the fact that they can accommodate every learning style. Whether you have students who learn best by watching videos and scenarios or who respond more to reading modules, these technological resources can help you develop learning materials in every learning style needed.

Even better, most of these tools can further spice up learning through methods that are simply not possible through traditional learning. Some technological resources can gamify your quizzes, while others can host online forums where students can connect with one another to discuss topics in a virtual setting.

Let's look at some of the best free tech tools for teachers that you might want to check out.

1. EdApp

EdApp's microlearning courseware platform Educate All is free for teachers, students, and anyone else on the planet who has a desire to learn. Together with UNITAR, EdApp is redefining what they mean by 'team micro teaching' by creating a true global village of educators. Here, you'll find a free, comprehensive library of world-class, fully editable courses that your learners can use to gain new knowledge and further their education.

This free tech tool for teachers also offers an authoring tool, which is an excellent way to effectively educate your learners with vital knowledge and skills. Powerful learner metrics are available for learner assessment, and EdApp's Brain Boost spaced repetition feature is next to none. This tool uses the science of spaced repetition or the practice of repeating learning over time to improve learning retention rate.

Wondering if your courses are effective? Dig deeper into the learning progress of your learners using EdApp's analytics suite. This company training software allows you to easily view and export engagement and performance insights of your courses, so you'll know if they're working well or not. It can also generate out-of-the-box reports in case you need to present numbers to your organization.
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2. Paymo

The platform is excellent for all sorts of collaboration: student-teacher collaboration, peer collaboration, and even among staff members. For example, teachers (or professors) can organize classwork, plan projects of all kinds, and track their own time for proof of work. As 'project managers,' they can also supervise students' logged hours (enrolled as 'project members').

When organizing coursework and assignments, teachers can easily set deadlines and milestones across the Calendar view, assign students to upload their work, and chat in real-time through comments or on the discussion board. All the information can be visualized in multiple ways, from mapping your to-do list (List & Table view) as sticky notes (Board view) or following the classwork progress one task at a time (Gantt view). And there's a lot more to be explored in Paymo that helps you manage your classroom and projects.

3. Kahoot

As a teacher, I always had a stockpile of quizzes in my back pocket. I would use them as a form of assessment generator and face-to-face spaced repetition on a regular basis in order to refresh student understanding, and I would also have them on hand to pull out whenever I needed to inject a bit of competition and energy into the classroom. It is an awesome way to gamify learning and training through play. Word of warning though: students and adults alike LOVE Kahoot! so much they will literally beg for more!

4. Socrative

is a free teacher tool that allows educators to gather end-of-class/training feedback. Long before Socrative came along, I would get students to hand in paper 'exit tickets' as they left the classroom (usually brief 1-2 sentence responses on a specific question or a reflection on what they learnt). Exit tickets are a form of formative assessment that enables teachers to adapt the learning roadmap according to student understanding, and zoom in on particular hotspots. Socrative provides a digital version of 'exit tickets' along with a host of other gamified features such as the team-based Space Race quizzes.

5. Padlet

, effectively a digital pinboard, was another game-changer in my teaching methods. I used this free teacher tool in two ways; first, to create an anonymous question board where students pin up virtual sticky notes with questions that both the teacher and other students can respond to, and second, to save articles and web content that I have curated for particular topics. So much more engaging than your usual 'required reading' list!

6. Google Docs

7. MindMeister

MindMeister leads the pack of free mind mapping apps that helps students visualise their thinking. It is mobile friendly and allows students to share maps and build them collaboratively in real-time.

8. Canva

is a super-cool drag and drop graphic design tool that is 100% free for teachers and students. Students can play with a huge library of professionally designed infographics and posters to visualise their learning, and for adding a 'wow factor' to their presentations. It's also a super-handy tool for teacher handouts!

9. FlipGrid

is Snapchat for the classroom. It is a free teacher tool that allows students to engage in discussion via short and sharp creative videos, all in a safe teacher-moderated space.

If you dream about embracing augmented reality in your classroom, but are just too intimidated to take the first step, Metaverse is the app for you. You don't need to know a scrap of coding to create your own Metaverse interactive story or game. Guaranteed off the chart engagement!

10. Poll Everywhere

Poll Everywhere is a super simple live polling app that collects participant responses in any context (whether that be a classroom, meeting or corporate training event) using SMS, the web, or Twitter. Poll Everywhere results can then be displayed live in presentations. It's a quick way to spot-check student understanding as well as gather constructive feedback on lesson effectiveness.

11. Mentimeter

Mentimeter is another app that generates live polls in the form of creative visualisations. It is also a word cloud generator, which is great for brainstorming sessions and pre-discussion prompts.

12. QRCode Monkey

13. Audacity

14. Smiling Mind

is a truly wonderful free meditation app that helps teachers Smiling Mind bring mindfulness into their everyday classrooms and supports student wellbeing.

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16. Wheel Decide

17. Online Stopwatch

18. Trello

19. Edmodo

Edmodo is an educational tool that connects teachers and students. As a global education network, Edmodo is an electronic resource that helps manage your classroom where you can send messages to students or students' parents, share class material, and keep organised.

20. TED-Ed

TED-Ed is a useful resource to share ideas of all kinds. As an arm of TED, TED-Ed is the company's youth and education initiative, where teachers and students can share ideas and knowledge from all around the world. Ranging in subjects and styles, TED-Ed is a great tool if you're looking to incorporate media into your lessons.

21. Zoom

Zoom is just one of the video conferencing platforms out there (with free basic plans) that has been embraced by classrooms and industry professionals alike. It provides an ideal way to host virtual seminars and lessons and has a whole host of lesser-known features that teachers can take advantage of, such as polling, annotation, breakout rooms, and screen sharing.

22. Beaconstac

Beaconstac is one of the best dynamic QR code generator companies that helps users to connect online to offline worlds. As the world embraces technology, teachers are starting to incorporate QR codes in their teaching ways too. QR code scavenger hunting is one of the new-age fun educational activities for students and teachers. It is used to engage students with interesting topics and help them retain their knowledge.

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Nick Kellett. Which is Best: Tools vs. Apps

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Do you want tools or apps?

Do you even understand the questions? I sense today to most people these terms are interchangeable.

As a software industry veteran, tools and apps have always carried unique meaning for me. I inherited this thinking from my time at Business Objects where we debated long and hard the definitions and merits of each.

"Apps" got hijacked by mobile and iPhones and the App store.

I found myself asking if the tool/app distinction was still valid. That question led to this post.

My answer was yes. I believe understanding the tool vs apps distinction is highly valuable, and not just for software companies. I believe it helps in the selection process. Let me define the terms and share why I think it's important.
Tools
Tools are highly generic. They perform multiple tasks. A Word Processor would be an example of a tool. You can use a word processor to do many things, e.g. to write a book, create a resume or produce a menu. Tools are universal. The downside of tools is you need to be given ideas on how to use them.

Spreadsheets, presentation tools, email and even Twitter are all tools.
Applications
Apps on the other hand are highly specific, they perform a single function. A resume app is highly focussed on the task of making resumes. You couldn't use a resume app to make a menu.

Apps get you somewhere very fast, but because they have a specific goal and often specific logic, it's not easy to use them for anything that varies from their core task.
Tools vs Apps
Apps are often tools applied to do a specific job.

For Twitter chats: Twitter vs Tweetchat

For Sharing : Hootsuite vs Buffer

I'm sure you can think of your own examples.
So which are betters : Tools or Apps?
There's no simple answer to this question, except that if you use more tools and less apps you have less to manage. The downside of tools is you have to do the work and come up with the ideas to make them useful.

Fewer tools will do the job or more apps and there's value in that. That can make life simpler, but it often comes at the price of needing more skill and imagination.

Tools tend to be able to do more, but sometimes at a price of usability.

I think today the line is a blurred because the finesse that can be applied to a user experience can sway your to using a specific app or tool.

Ultimately there's a cost of every solution even if it's free.

How many tools do you use today, everyday? How many apps?

My sense is in a world short on attention there's an appeal to using apps, but having too many apps leads you to forgetting or not finding an app. You can have too much choice.

If you have multiple tools/apps to do the same job something is wrong.

Apps are usually higher value as they include business logic.

I think the success of apps like Instagram have added a new dimension - Apps tend to do less because they make the experience simpler. Simplicity tends to be more viral.

Simplicity is often a technique used today to displace an incumbent solution. Instagram only makes square photos, it's only recently that you could rotate an image. Your filters are limited, but the experience lets just about anyone share great looking images. Instagram leaves you with a good feeling.

Apps tend to think about a bigger process and focus on the experience of delivering on a compete task. Instagram doesn't just take a photo, it enhances it and shares it. It's part social network.

If you use a tool every day then it becomes easier to grasp it's building blocks. It becomes easier to apply the same tool to do many jobs. The more you use it the more creative you get.

Photoshop would be a great example of a tool. It's highly capable, but may require more skill to know how to combine multiple smaller features in order to achieve a specific outcome - a polaroid photo, for example.

I know if I use Photoshop frequently it's easier to be proficient. If I use it rarely I use very few features.

I often use SimpleDiagrams instead of Photoshop because it keeps more focussed on making something simple. Less design choices helps me design better images, but then I'm only a pretend designer. In that context less is more.

If you don't use something very often, then an app tends to be easier to deploy because they do less, do it well and are easier to pick up and put down.

How about you? Have you ever though of the distinction. The words have been hijacked but the distinction lives on.

Today, I think I'm thinking about workflows as being the key distinction. Simplicity and completing tasks has big appeal.

These things go in cycles. There's been a huge swing to apps. Will tools return to favor?

I always thought of Twitter as a swiss army knife. It did many things just about OK - you needed other tools and apps to really make it useful, but Twitter arrived at a time when we were seeing too many apps.

For me this an interesting debate and it's fun to observe the changing patterns.

Perhaps we need some new vocabulary.

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Do you want tools or apps? Do you even understand the questions? I sense today to most people these terms are interchangeable. As a software industry veteran, tools and apps have always carried unique meaning for me. I inherited this thinking from my time at Business Objects where we debated long and hard the definitions ...

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We Are Teachers - 350+ Amazing Online Learning Resources

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By Ryan Schleeter

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Teaching Tolerance is a program of the Southern Poverty Law Center, based in Montgomery, Alabama. Its core goals are to " foster inclusiveness, reduce bias, and promote educational equity " for K-12 students in the United States.

Director Maureen Costello says the idea of "anti-bias" is central to understanding Teaching Tolerance's work.

"We are an anti-bias program. That's one of those words that people don't always understand," she says. "We try to help people-and especially students-shake off the bias that society teaches them and reduce prejudice by getting past the labels. We're helping teachers with pedagogy and we're helping them bring children and youth together to appreciate each other and appreciate difference."

The main way Teaching Tolerance works to achieve these goals is as a publisher of books, magazines, films, and teaching materials. Its flagship publication, Teaching Tolerance magazine, is published two times per year and distributed to 450,000 educators. Its films address topics ranging from the Civil Rights Movement to anti-gay bullying in schools and have earned two Academy Awards in the short documentary category. All materials are free to educational institutions.

The history of Teaching Tolerance is deeply intertwined with that of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which was founded in 1971 by civil rights attorneys Morris Dees and Joseph Levin. The center is a program truly rooted in Southern history. Its original purpose was to bring civil lawsuits under the Civil Rights Acts and the 14th Amendment and to fight for desegregation.

The organization broadened its focus in the 1980s and adopted the idea of "fighting hate as well as seeking justice." Specifically, Dees and his contemporaries began to dismantle the Ku Klux Klan through civil lawsuits. The motivation to form Teaching Tolerance came from Dees' realization that "it was not enough to beat them in the courts" and that the SPLC should also work to "prevent racial and ethnic violence from happening."

"Teaching Tolerance came out of the idea that the best way to prevent hatred and violence is to start changing attitudes among children," Costello says. "Schools are often the best possible opportunity, because everyone goes to school. Public schools bring together people of all kinds; it's a great opportunity for a program that reduces prejudice."
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Costello says the support and feedback from educators is the most rewarding part of Teaching Tolerance's work.

"We live for the responses we get from teachers about what happens when they show our films or use our resources," she says. "I've read literally thousands of letters or evaluations from teachers about the film Bullied. It just amazes me. It says to us, story by story, individual student by individual student, 'Your films have made a difference.'"

Teaching Tolerance also acts as an outlet for educators experiencing prejudice themselves or working against the grain to reduce bias in their schools.

"We hear a lot from teachers who feel really isolated in their schools because they themselves are closeted LGBT, or they're the only progressive educator in their school," Costello says. "What they turn to Teaching Tolerance for is a sense of community."
MOST CHALLENGING PART OF THE PROGRAM
One challenge the organization faces is gauging how effective its methods are at creating change.

"The big challenge is that it's hard to know whether you've had an impact. That's a challenge of teaching in general," Costello says. "The kinds of things that we teach are the things that change character."

The organization also encounters opposition from those who don't believe in its mission. As a self-proclaimed "progressive organization," Teaching Tolerance often has a difficult time connecting with schools with socially conservative environments or administrations.

"We don't want to make it hard for schools to use our materials, but we do face opposition from people who are fearful of the changing diversity of American culture," Costello says.

The geographic contexts of the Southern Poverty Law Center and Teaching Tolerance have always played a critical role in shaping the organization.

"I think most of what we do fits into the category of human geography," Costello says. "We're rooted in the South where the social and cultural environment produced Jim Crow (laws) and the Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement, which started out as a racial movement, has expanded to be embraced by all sorts of groups."

Unique geographies across the United States have allowed Teaching Tolerance to expand the scope of its work and respond to current events that have an impact on cultural understanding.

"We try to pay attention to the pulse of the nation, in a sense," Costello says. "If there's a division in American society somewhere, it finds its way into the schools. So not only is there a problem to be addressed in the schools, but it's also an opportunity for prevention."

Teaching Tolerance has a number of outlets specifically for educators. Its monthly newsletter, magazines, and teaching resources are all free. It also maintains an active Facebook page where teachers can come together to share ideas and stories to support coexistence in the classroom.

Beyond making use of the program's resources, students and teachers alike have the opportunity each day to fight against prejudice and stand up for equity in schools.

"Stand up for what's right, for what you believe in. Switch from being a bystander to what we call an upstander," Costello says. "For kids who are being bullied, know that it can change and find help-confide in trusted adults."

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