Teachers Guide - Operation Respect

Don’t Laugh at Me Teachers Guide
© 2000 Operation Respect, Inc. and Educators for Social Responsibility
Don’t Laugh at Me School Program Video
© 2000 Operation Respect, Inc.
Don’t Laugh at Me School Songs CD
© 2000 Operation Respect, Inc.
Don’t Laugh at Me
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New York, NY 10121
212-904-5243(phone)
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www.dontlaugh.org
Educators for Social Responsibility
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The activities in this guide were adapted from materials by Educators for Social Responsibility and their Resolving Conflict
Creatively Program (RCCP) and Adventures in Peacemaking (AIP), the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance
Program, and Challenge Day. Activities were drawn from Resolving Conflict Creatively: A Teaching Guide for Grades
Kindergarten Through Six by Peggy Ray et al. (Board of Education of the City of New York and Educators for Social
Responsibility, Metropolitan Area, 1993, 1996); Early Childhood Adventures in Peacemaking by William J. Kreidler and Sandy
Tsubokawa Whittall et al. (Educators for Social Responsibility and Work/Family Directions, 1996, 1999); School-Age Adventures
in Peacemaking by William J. Kreidler and Lisa Furlong (Educators for Social Responsibility and Work/Family Directions with
Project Adventure, 1995); Linking Up! by Sarah Pirtle (Educators for Social Responsibility, 1998) and Elementary Perspectives:
Teaching Concepts of Peace and Conflict by William J. Kreidler (Educators for Social Responsibility, 1990). Adapted and used
with permission.