How to Address Bias and Bullying: Resources for Schools
This resource collection provides a number of tools for addressing bullying and bias, as well as for exploring bigger topics in the classroom. Links to related lesson plans and booklists are included below.
Bullying: Resource Collection
Bias, Bullying, and Violence
- 8 Tips to Protect ELLs from Bullying in Your Classroom and School
- 15 Tips for Talking with Children About Violence
- Responding to COVID Bullying, Bias, and Violence Against Asian Americans
- Addressing Antisemitism and Incidents of Hate
- How Schools Can Create a Safe Environment for Muslims
- Talking with Students About Racism and Violence: Resources for Educators
- Japanese-American Internment: Books for Children and Young Adults
- Preventing Cyberbullying: Multilingual Resources for Schools and Families (Compiled by Colorín Colorado)
- Bullying Prevention Resources (Share My Lesson)
- Bullying Help: Resources and Partners (Teaching Tolerance)
- Bullying and Bias: Resource Collection (Teacher Tolerance)
Bias: Resource Collection
Resources from Anti-Defamation League
- Helping Students Make Sense of News Stories About Bias and Injustice
- Empowering Young People in the Aftermath of Hate (Resources in English/Spanish)
- Talking to Young Children about Bias and Prejudice
- Anti-Bias Tools & Strategies
- Pyramid of Hate: From Bias to Genocide (in English and Spanish)
Empathy: Resource Collection
- Guest Post: What ELLs Taught Our School in a Week-Long Empathy Project (Larry Ferlazzo)
- How to Teach Empathy and Appreciation (Colorín Colorado)
Immigration Topics
Welcoming Immigrant Students
- Making Immigrant Students and Families Feel Welcome (Colorín Colorado)
- Creating a Welcoming Classroom Environment for ELLs and Immigrant Students (Colorín Colorado)
- Supporting Special Populations such as Refugees and Unaccompanied Children (Colorín Colorado)
- A Primer on Helping Immigrant Students Feel Welcome in School (Education Week)
- Welcoming America Network: Resources and Ideas
Related headlines
- High School Club Aims to Make Refugees, Immigrants Welcome (The Today Show)
- National Teacher of the Year Shares Immigrant Students' Stories with White House (Education Week)
- This small town, devastated by floods, welcomed Syrian immigrants. They're now paying it back. (The Washington Post)
Immigration: Classroom Resources
- Immigration Resources for the Classroom
- Myths and Facts about Immigrants and Immigration (Anti-Defamation League)
- Debunking Myths About the Central American Migrant Caravan from NBC and CNN
Related topics: Lesson plans, booklists and more
- Japanese-American Internment: Books for Children and Young Adults
- Teaching the Holocaust
- How Schools Can Create a Safe Environment for Muslims
- Race and Civil Rights: Classroom Resources
Videos: Bullying and Bias in Schools
Hena Khan Talks about what young American Muslims experience on a regular basis
What it felt like to be bullied
Principal Tam recalls his experiences being bullied as a young Chinese immigrant in the United States.
How school leaders can respond to anti-Asian bullying and violence
Principal Victor Tam urges school leaders to consider how the rise in anti-AAPI violence during COVID-19 impacts their students and families — and how to respond as a leader in the community.
