Perspectives for a Diverse America

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Select an Essential Question Drive student learning with a question aligned to your instructional goals.

Select a Central Text Browse a carefully curated collection of rigorous texts that exemplify anti-bias themes.

Select Tasks and Strategies Build literacy skills and active citizenship with activities and assessments designed to help students deeply engage the text.

PERSPECTIVES HAS THREE INTERLOCKING COMPONENTS

Anti-bias Framework

Teaching Tolerance’s Anti-bias Framework is a groundbreaking set of anchor standards and grade-level outcomes divided into four domains: Identity, Diversity, Justice and Action. The Anti-bias Framework is ideal for teachers who embrace social justice and backward planning. It also supports the creation of essential questions to drive student inquiry.

Central Text Anthology

This multi-genre, multi-media anthology of short texts aligns with both the Common Core's recommendations for text complexity and Teaching Tolerance's Anti-bias Framework. Text includes informational and literary nonfiction, literature, photographs, political cartoons, interviews and infographs.

Integrated Learning Plan

The Integrated Learning Plan allows teachers to engage and assess students using tasks and strategies aligned to Common Core ELA and literacy standards. Do Something asks students to translate their learning into social action.

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PERSPECTIVES HAS THREE INTERLOCKING COMPONENTS

Anti-bias Framework

Central Text Anthology

Integrated Learning Plan

INTEGRATED LEARNING PLAN

The Perspectives Integrated Learning Plan features multiple curricular phases that promote social action and meet the literacy goals of the Common Core. Each phase offers a variety of strategies and tasks you can select and combine based on the needs of your students, your essential question and on the central text you select.

Grades 3-12

1
Word Work

Students increase their ability to comprehend and produce language by accessing and using key vocabulary from the central text in their own reading, writing, speaking and listening.

2
Close And Critical Reading

Students improve their reading comprehension skills by analyzing, interpreting, critiquing and making connections to the central text in ways that help them form their sense of self and their views of the world.

3
Community Inquiry

Students develop their speaking and listening skills by engaging in meaningful conversation about the central text, relating the discussion back to the text and to the anti-bias standards.

4
Write To The Source

Students improve their writing skills by responding to ideas and claims found in the central text and by using the text to support their own reflection and analysis.

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Do Something

Students demonstrate their anti-bias awareness and proficiency through their everyday behavior or coordinated social action.
Grades K-2

1
Exploring The Text Through Read Alouds

Students define text types, examine how text structure affects meaning, and identify audience and purpose.

2
Responding To The Read-Aloud Text

Students analyze, interpret, critique and make connections to texts to form judgments about themselves and the world.

3
Do Something

Students apply learning to their own lives through performance tasks that build critical literacy and civic engagement.

Build Literacy-based, Anti-bias Learning Plans.

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PERSPECTIVES HAS THREE INTERLOCKING COMPONENTS

Anti-bias Framework

Central Text Anthology

Integrated Learning Plan

INTEGRATED LEARNING PLAN

Grades 3-12

Grades K-2