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Names Matter: Fostering Respect, Understanding and Belonging in Schools 

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ADL Education offers educators guidance on the importance of prioritizing the pronunciation of their students names.
August 05, 2025
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When ‘Just Joking’ Is No Joke: How to Respond When Students’ ‘Jokes’ are Biased or Offensive

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There are many benefits to humor. A good joke can ease tension in a stressful situation. Humor can connect people and bring them together. Jokes can bring levity to a situation that begs for lightheartedness. Being funny can signal to others who you are.  Humor can even open a conversation that previously felt closed or off-limits.  However, jokes and humor, when they target social identity groups, can do the opposite. They can make people feel unsafe, disconnected, excluded and…
March 22, 2023
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