An Innovative Program
Since 1996, Tools for Tolerance®
has trained over 100,000 people in both the private and public sectors in the United
States. Canadian educators and law enforcement personnel have been offered the opportunity
to attend tailor-made workshops in the U.S. since May 2006 and close to 400 have
participated in 1-year’s time! Due to the tremendous and positive response, FSWC
will now be offering workshops for other interested groups of Canadian professionals.
Tools for Tolerance® is a leading provider of transformational
workplace learning and leadership development. Set in state-of-the-art training
facilities, programs bridge personal, local and global issues, challenging participants
to redefine professional roles in an increasingly complex and changing world.
The programs are experiential and learner-centered. Through the combination of innovative
learning technologies, special speakers, workshop formats and leading edge curricula,
participants achieve personal and professional growth in a results-oriented group
process.
“Then and Now”
Then
Ordinary people. Ordinary lives.
Some with husbands, children and wives
They used signs and symbols of hate
To exterminate and cleanse at a great rate.
Eliminate, liquidate, slaughter was the will
By guns, starvation, persecution they kill.
Not one, two, three, but six millions counted
Men, women, children, bodies mounted.
Like sheep to the slaughter taken by gas
Screams and cries were heard from the mass.
Resistance showed with the strength left
Others stood still as they wept.
Now
As educators we preach and teach
The lives of students we try to reach.
We use words as powerful tools
To group as smart, unteachable or fools.
Be constructive as words we use
For attitudes and values are often fused.
Be strong and brave as we perform tasks
As people we don many masks.
Start with kids and expand the mind
To eliminate prejudice, racism and the kind.
Shape the world and do your part
To evolve people with a good heart.
Ordinary people. Ordinary lives.
Beverly Faulknor, Leadership for Inclusive Schools participant May 13 ‘07
Vice Principal
Joseph Gibbons Public School
Halton District School Board 2007