Teaching Tolerance Tuesday

I love the idea behind Nonfiction Monday and Poetry Friday, so decided to start a "day" of my own.  I figured that I would use this first Tuesday to explain my thinking...

One aspect of children's literature and teaching that I am most passionate about is using books to generate conversation and help teach tolerance.  I believe that this is a real goal of teachers, parents, librarians, etc. and should be talked about often.  To that end, I have decided to go ahead and post each Tuesday (because I couldn't resist the alliteration of Teaching Tolerance Tuesday) about a book, a poem, an article -- whatever comes to mind -- that helps kids challenge their ideas about people different from them.  Alternately, I will post on Tuesdays about books written for adults about these issues: bullying, respect in schools, etc.   

I think that this is important -- no, critical -- for our kids and am eager to get started with my new weekly "event".  If my day today gets away from me and I am not able to post about a book later, you can be sure that I will get going next Tuesday.  (I generally get only one chunk of time each day to blog because of my son, who is not yet in school -- I find that he keeps me quite busy all day and that early mornings work best for me!)

I'd love to hear any thoughts you might have about Teaching Tolerance Tuesday...

Comments

[Sondra Santos LaBrie]

Fabulous idea. I'm going to steal it...if you don't mind.