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Winners of the Tolerance Week Written Word Contest Announced
Winner Ian Greigg Hinton Middle School A person with a different colored skin walks by. You don’t put them down, but you don’t say hi. Is tolerance enough? You smile at someone with a teardrop tat, But when they turn awa...
Links for 2021 Virtual Tolerance Week Events
Monday 6:00 – Facing Fear https://youtu.be/TFVFKoUFcWI Tuesday 6:00 – Above and Beyond https://youtu.be/Y_cxYB8E__8 Wednesday 9:30 – Inge Auerbacher Student Event https://youtu.be/We_bRKa9ekw Wednesday 7:00 – Who Will Wr...
Sonja Grimsley and Kristy Kleene Receive the 2020 Tolerance Week Courage to Teach Award
Sonja Grimsley, right, and Kristy Kleene, who team-teach 8th Grade English Language Arts at East Middle School received the 2020 Tolerance Week Courage to Teach Award. They attended the Paper Clips Teacher’s Workshop in ...
Above and Beyond to be screened virtually
Above and Beyond will be screened virtually on Tuesday, April 27th at 6 pm. In 1948, just three years after the liberation of Nazi death camps, a group of Jewish American pilots answered a call for help. In secret and at...
Area 8th Graders to Meet Terezin Survivor Inge Auerbacher Virtually
Wednesday, April 28 – 9:30 – Virtual 8th Grade Event with Terezin Concentration Camp Survivor Inge Auerbacher Area 8th grade students will see Inge Auerbacher’s 2019 United Nations Holocaust Remembrance Day Speech and li...
Facing Fear Documentary to be shown virtually
The documentary Facing Fear will be shown virtually on Monday, April 26th at 6 pm, in partnership with Tolerance Week and the Sioux City Human Rights Commission . A discussion will follow led by Karen Mackey, Director of...
Who Will Write Our History and film maker Roberta Grossman to be Virtual Tolerance Week 2021 Main Event
On Wednesday, April 28th at 7:00 pm, the documentary Who Will Write Our History will be shown virtually. Following the screening, writer, producer and director Roberta Grossman will speak. In November 1940, days after th...
2021 Tolerance Week Written Word Contest and the Ella Holtzen Memorial Tolerance Week Art Contest theme announced
Please express in words or art how the practice of Tolerance will make the world a better place. Please limit essays to 400 words and artwork to 11×14″. Email entries to grlindblade@gmail.com or deliver to 1922 Pierce St...
2021 Tolerance Week to be Virtual
We are planning online events for this year’s Tolerance Week. On April 28th, 8th graders all over the region will be tuning in to see the film “Paper Clips” and hear from Terezin Survivor Inge Auerbacher. We are planning...
2020 Tolerance Week Events Cancelled Due to Corona Virus
With the closing of schools in Iowa, we had no choice but to cancel all of the events of Tolerance Week. Once the dust settles, we will explore the possibility of rescheduling, depending upon schedules of the school syst...
2016 Tolerance Week Art Contest Winner Dies with her brother in ice-related car accident
It is with great sadness that we acknowledge the deaths of 18-year-old Ella Holtzen and her 14-year-old brother Harrison Holtzen in a tragic car accident on January 14, 2020. Ella was the Tolerance Week Middle School Art...
2020 Tolerance Week Essay and Ella Holtzen Art Contests Theme Announced
The Tolerance Week Essay Contest and the Ella Holtzen Memorial Tolerance Week Art Contest theme is as follows: Please express in words or art how the practice of Tolerance will make the world a better place. Please limit...