Teaching Tolerance Distributes Free Classroom Posters to
Encourage Civic Engagement As part of an effort to help teachers
educate their students about the importance of being involved in
their community and its power to bring positive social change,
the SPLC’s Teaching Tolerance project will offer 10,000 teachers
a set of free classroom posters promoting this important lesson.
The effort is the result of a partnership between Teaching
Tolerance, the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition
Service (SITES) and Facing History and Ourselves. The set of 11
full-color posters was produced by SITES and uses themes from
Choosing to Participate – an initiative by Facing History and
Ourselves to encourage young people and adults around the world
to think deeply about the importance of participating in a
democratic society. In order to reach the most students with
this limited-quantity offer, Teaching Tolerance can only make
the posters available to school-based educators. “Our world is
growing increasingly interco