Follow up curriculum for tools for tolerance:

• Unit on Holocaust and Genocide-
• Unit on racism, bigotry, including the renewed rise of antisemitism in Europe.
• I am hosting a district- wide Genocide/holocaust conference in April 2008.
• I will be directly integrating lessons of Cultural proficiency, both as unit curriculum and team building material for the group of students that I am working with,
• We are now using the book Sunflower as part of my course curriculum and as part of what participants will receive at the Holocaust/Genocide conference.

D. Zagar,
Samuel Robertson Technical Secondary Maple Ridge B.C.

“I intend to design and offer training workshops for law firms and other legal working environment as well a presentation to law students and articling students on equity issues (systematic discrimination within the profession). In doing so I will use some of the learning techniques presented during the program such as testimonials and case studies.”

F. Pelletier,
Conseillere a l’equite, Barreau du Quebec

“As a result of the Tools for Tolerance program, and subsequent discussions among team leaders about the desire and need for more collective and coordinated work across the network, Alberta Human Rights and Citizenship (including the Alberta Human Rights and Citizenship Commission, the Human Rights and Citizenship Branch of Alberta Culture and Community Spirit, and the Human Rights and Citizenship Branch of Alberta Culture and Community Spirit, and the Human Rights, Citizenship and Multiculturalism Education Fund) and the AUMA have developed a 3-year partnership initiative. This partnership work will entail building networks of stakeholders including municipalities, government departments and organizations working on these issues to share information and resources, share best practices and lessons learned, and even form issue-based or regional partnerships to work collaborative on projects…. Funding support of $210,000 has been secured through the Human Rights, Citizenship and Multiculturalism Education Fund to help support this initiative”.

C. Palamar,
Director of Education and Community Services, Alberta Municipalities.

“I have contacted the Ontario Police College to enquire into the possibility of delivering a course on multiculturalism/tolerance to police officers. I would like to implement it this year in an in service training session, and then deliver it to various groups in the community.”

P. Palumbo,
Police Sergeant, Southwestern Ontario Police.

“Diversity and tolerance issues are now being presented to all new recruits during their employment orientation. Racial profiling versus criminal profiling and the tolerance issues will be introduced to our new members shortly after the hiring stage. All members who are about to assume supervisory role are given the presentation during our Acting Sergeant Course.”

J. Strand,
Police Sergeant, Ontario Police

“I have co-ordinate with the training Bureau at the Peel Regional Police, and liaise with the Toronto Simon Wiesenthal Centre in order to put together a training video for officers.”

K. Whyte,
Inspector, Peel Regional Police

1. On May 26, 2008, posters containing the Tolerance Pledge, found in the booklet given out at the New York Tolerance Centre, were hung in the hallway across from the Guidance Office. Each poster has a line from the Tolerance Pledge. These posters will not be taken down.
2. Each home form class has been given two posters. One simply has the title “Tolerance Pledge”. The other has the statements in the Tolerance Pledge.
3. During the week of May 26, each day over the announcements, statements from the Tolerance Pledge were read. After hearing the statements, home form classes cut out the read statements from the one poster and pasted them in the correct order on the other poster.
4. At the end of the week, each home form class hung their personal Tolerance Pledge in their classroom.
5. At the beginning of the 2008/2009 school year, six days will be chosen to celebrate tolerance. Each day, a successful person will be celebrated over the announcements. A poster with this person’s picture and a description of what this person did will be posted in the main hall of the school. These individuals will come from different backgrounds, religions, races, sexes, etc.

Toronto District School Board, Future Aces NYC Student Group April 9, ’08

1. “Are You Tolerant?” posters will be posted around the schools during the third week of September 2008. Some of these posters will have pictures of genocides. Some will simply have the slogan “ARE YOU TOLERANT?”
2. On Friday September 19, 2008, Earl Haig will be having an assembly. The Future Aces Committee will show a video for the “Are You Tolerant?” Campaign. This video will include:
   
   
   1. Quick scenes of genocides from around the world
   2. “ARE YOU TOLERANT?”
   3. Information about the “I AM TOLERANT” Bandana Making happening at lunch in the main hall in celebration of the International Day of Peace (Sun Sept 21).
3. At lunch on Friday September 19, students will be encouraged to write “I AM TOLERANT” on white bandanas and to wear them for the rest of the day.

1. The Human Rights Week will occur in October. (The exact date still needs to be confirmed with school administration.)
2. The Human Rights Week will be kicked off with a Future Aces Presentation, including an address by Herb Carnegie, for the entire school.
3. For the entire week, at the end of the morning announcements, information about one of the genocides currently happening in the world will be read.
4. Home form classes will have a “Human Rights Quiz” to fill out with multiple choice questions about the information they heard on the genocides.
5. A prize will be awarded to the home form that answers the most questions correctly.
6. On Friday, a speaker from Amnesty International will present to interested students.

1. In September, a questionnaire will be completed by each North Albion student. Questions will include:
   
   
   1. some of the questions discussed at the pre-meeting for the New York Trip held at the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal
   2. some of the questions discussed at the beginning of the Day at the New York Tolerance Center
   3. Have you ever felt racism?
   4. Have you ever seen a racist act at North Albion?
2. For the first three weeks of October, each day an interesting statistic gathered from the survey, or a quote seen on the wall at the New York Tolerance Center will be read following “O’ Canada”.
3. For the last week of October, each day on the announcements successful individuals will be celebrated. These individuals will come from different backgrounds, religions, races, sexes, etc.
4. Each home form class will be given a questionnaire about these individuals. The home form class that answers the most questions correctly will get a prize

• Have both local and collaborative strategies and goals
• Use student council as a vehicle for diversity committees
• Presentations for diversity awareness as a collaborative across schools
• Diversity conference or day
• Find the chair of your family diversity committee and work together with them to create a mass board diversity conference
• Poll students and accumulate hard data which can be presented to students. It demonstrates the locality of the issue.
• Discuss ideas with the school chaplaincy- contact Sheila Peterson head of the chaplaincy committee regarding diversity ideas for your school
• Make presentations to and co-operate with parent council
• Make use of video club/media club to create a video to present the issue to students
• Create a large project as a goal for the entire school- it creates more enthusiasm and participation
• Set up workshops
• Make contact with the new equity officer

Dufferin Peel Catholic District School Board Student Group

• A one hour segment in which the President of our local Jewish Community attended our Police Service once a week for six weeks to discuss and provide information to our officers (80 in total) about the Jewish culture and the impact local hate crimes have within their community. The documentary – “Paperclips” was screened.
• Looking to provide annual diversity training
  G. Asimis, Constable- training branch, Belleville Police Service

• Presented at the British Columbia Law Enforcement Diversity Network Forum. The session exposed the participants to the history of hate within Canada, symbols of hate, and the tragedies of the holocaust.
• Created information packages that were distributed to the agencies of the forum participants. Packages included Anti Hate pin – designed as a multi colored healing circle which expresses the need for all communities to stand and work together to fight hate.
• Has implemented Hate Crimes Training and has successfully delivered 16 sessions thus far. The training is designed to improve the department’s ability to identify categories and investigate hate crime and has been highly successful.
  T. Houchen, Hate Crimes Investigator

• Has disseminated the material received at the Tools program to Police Service through our “in service training”.
• Has incorporated “Prospective on Profiling” and “The Changing Role of Law Enforcement” into diversity information sessions.
  H. Geoffroy, Police Constable, Simcoe County (north)

• Has been actively involved in the Recruiting Bureau and the Diversity Bureau.
• Has encouraged the Diversity Bureau at Peel Regional to reach out to members of the community and welcome them into a career in policing.
  K. Whyte, Inspector, Peel Regional Police

• Met with the Director of Education and encouraged him to mandate that all schools have a "Diversity action Plan" by mid-December (the director did so to all principals on August 30th) -On September 26/29 and October 10/12 all Principals and Vice Principals and managers must attend 2 of 4 days of anti-racist training. (this conference was planned prior to our L.A. training, but we are using information garnered in L.A. as part of the modular sessions.
• Human resources is examining hiring practices to ensure that there are no barriers to employment for any identified groups i.e.: persons with disabilities. C. D'Souza, Equity and Diversity Officer, Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board

I presented at my Catholic Leadership and Faith Development Committee of our Ontario Catholic Supervisory Officers Association. Representatives from as far north as Thunder Bay, London to the west and Ottawa to the east received the packages and a short presentation from me. Some had heard of it and others were very interested in hearing about it for the first time.

Regarding our Board's experience of the Tools for Tolerance for Professionals Program, I have to say that it was an extraordinary opportunity. The organization and implementation of the program itself is of the highest quality. It is the potential for followup, however, that truly makes the program invaluable. Equipped with the experiences from the myriad of interactive and engaging exhibits of the Museum of Tolerance as well as the series of thought provoking classroom activities facilitated by the staff, our team left with the tools to assess our own behaviours and values and how they relate to our efforts to further enhance our Board's approach to issues of diversity. Working with Randall over those two days helped map out a framework to move forward with The Culturally Proficient School acting as one of our critical resources.
Paul McMorrow, Superintendent, Human Resources Dufferin Peel Catholic District School Board
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I would like to share with you an indication of the influence of the Tools for Tolerance. I was part of an interview team to hire Superintendents of Schools for the Toronto District School Board. The candidates that we interviewed were exemplary principals who were putting their names foreword for promotion. Of the 12 candidates that we interviewed at least 8 referred to working with their schools to develop Cultural Proficiency. I am not sure if any of these people had actually been part of the trip to LA. I believe that they had adopted this approach because of professional development that they received from those who attended the session in LA and from Randal Lindsey who had been brought up from California to speak with principals in the west part of the city.

On another note, I have made a motion which was passed by the Board to develop a curriculum on the Holocaust and the Genocides of the 20th century. The Superintendent Nadine Segal who is the senior educator assigned to develop this curriculum attended the Tools program in LA and is championing this program as part of her commitment to educate others about injustices and tolerance. The committee that has been put together to work on this is amazing and I am very excited about the learning possibilities for grade 11 students. I will keep you informed as to the progress of our efforts. Please see attachments for more information.
G. Gershon, Trustee, Toronto District School Board
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• Team delivering presentation at teacher curriculum conference in May/07 and have changed it to reflect new learnings
• May/08 conference will be based on Cultural Proficiency and Dr. Lindsey will be invited to conduct workshop
• Distributed Tools information to 1300 teachers and administrators in eNewsletter
  G. Griggs, Executive Director, Conference of Independent Schools of Ontario

• Ensure all staff meetings devote time to tolerance
• Recommend board-wide day where all schools engage in day to eliminate racism
• Encourage and support attendance at FSWC sessions with school diversity reps
  D. Oude-Reimerink, Principal, Dufferin Peel Catholic District School Board

• Submitted budget proposal to run book study group using R. Lindsey’s material to include 25 teachers
• Bring teachers to Simon Wiesenthal Centre events
• Booked R. Lindsey as key note speaker for Fall ’07 PD day
• Extend Cultural consciousness to administrators, support staff and teachers
• Run Anti-discrimination and Holocaust Education days for elementary and secondary students
• Promote tolerance and inclusion in curriculum delivery
  E. Freeman-Shaw, Curriculum Consultant, District School Board of Niagara

• Beginning March/07 Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario’s website to include section highlighting International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination with links (including FSWC)
• April/07 adding Aboriginal Day
• Include information on Tools for Tolerance and FSWC on main webpage next Fall
• Distribute information regarding FSWC conferences and workshops throughout Ontario K. Makan and S. Mau, Executive Assistants, Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario

• Proposed presentation to Halifax Regional School Board program department regarding Tools
  S. Baldwin, School Improvement Coordinator, Halifax Regional School Board

• Compete workshop for members of the Program Department of School Board
• Use information in September/07 PD day workshop
  N. Sparks, RCH Program Advisor, Halifax Regional School Board

• Establish Valuing Diversity Committee to develop initiatives for promoting tolerance and fighting oppression
• Make all information on the educator workshops at FSWC to all teachers in the Board
  D. Godin, Superintendent of Schools, PVNC Catholic District School Board

• Incorporate information within Diversity Conversation monthly meetings
  M. Bator, CEO/Director, Dufferin Peel Catholic District School Board

• Integrating into required course outcomes in high school English course
• Become facilitator at FSWC
  K. Samuelson, Global Education Coordinator, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador

• Integrating Tools into portfolios and school-board culture
  B. Planche, Superintendent of Education, York Region District School Board

• Class trip to FSWC
  
• Regional staff training
  D. McAdam, Vice Principal, York Region District School Board

• Integrated all aspects of Tools program into our teacher education program
• Participated in Conference of Equity education
• Integrated research on mentoring with equity education or York Region and OISE/UT
  K. Walford, Instructor, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

• Identified “social Justice and equity as a pillar of school and established a team of staff to shape and lead
• Building collection of effective classroom strategies that build social awareness and equity
• Developed grade 10 program which partners school with philanthropic organization
• Made posters of the “Respect” materials from Tools for all classrooms
• A number of students preparing to view “Gaby’s Dresser”
  T. Byers, Vice Principal, Peel District School Board

• Book study group on “Speak Up”
• Grade 7 students unit on Oppression through literature including Holocaust
• Library has purchased books relating to tolerance for teachers in various languages to reflect school culture
• Special needs students integrated into regular classrooms to build tolerance amongst students
• Peer Mediation program
• Attending FSWC educator series
  Y.Gilinsky, S. Burakowski, H. Lowry, York Region District School Board

We had 2 speakers come up from California thanks to Simon Wiesenthal Center on September 14, 2007. We had approx. 95 people confirmed in attendance as well (that may go up by another 25-30 people in the next few weeks as well). The conference is called "Tools for Diversity: A Policing Perspective".
R. Takhar Diversity Advisor, RCMP- Surrey Detachment