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title: Instruction | Teaching Tolerance - Diversity, Equity and Justice -
description: www.tolerance.org/publication/instruction This resource describes instructional practices and strategies that foster engaging and challenging learning experiences for all students. These practices include promoting discussion, collaboration, and higher order thinking, as well as clarifying expectations and highlighting relevance. Recommendations address the value of incorporating student perspectives and the importance of considering classroom diversity along a variety of dimensions when designing instruction.
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# Instruction | Teaching Tolerance – Diversity, Equity and Justice

**By [Ben Politzer](https://www.tripoded.com/blog/author/ben-politzer)**  
April 25 2019

[**www.tolerance.org/publication/instruction**](http://www.tolerance.org/publication/instruction)

This resource describes instructional practices and strategies that foster engaging and challenging learning experiences for all students. These practices include promoting discussion, collaboration, and higher order thinking, as well as clarifying expectations and highlighting relevance. Recommendations address the value of incorporating student perspectives and the importance of considering classroom diversity along a variety of dimensions when designing instruction.

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## Ben Politzer

 Ben is Vice President K-12 Lead Gen at Scholarus Learning, and is interested in connecting people to the right supports. He is a former teacher and school principal. He loves new ideas, new ways of looking at problems, and is forever learning how to be a better dad, leader, and marketer. 

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