in Capistrano Unified School District

After one of my students was speared through the brain with a metal paint roller, and another was sentenced to ten years in jail for a hate-related assault, I designed and piloted Promoting Tolerance Through Understanding, a high school elective class, at San Clemente High School.

I invite you to join me in promoting tolerance and stopping youth violence. This successful course addresses the issues of prejudice, hatred, discrimination, and the end result of these societal ills -- the violence that often is the aftermath.

Our class was featured in "Seeking Solutions", which aired on PBS on September 22, 1999. This unprecedented prime-time national television event, produced by Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith, highlighted innovative campaigns and daring individuals, from Southern California to Chicago and South Carolina, who have stopped teen gang wars, confronted hate crime, taught tolerance to teens, taken neighborhoods back from drug dealers, and dramatically cut the crime rate.

We were also prominently represented in the nationally-telecast Webcast Symposium on Teen Violence and Hate Crime at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, which was broadcast live on the WWW on Tuesday, September 14, 1999. (See www.pbs.org/seekingsolutions for more information.)

Be sure to check out our newly added Lesson Plans - updated frequently.

Joe Moros is also available as a presenter. View descriptions of his presentations. (Adobe Acrobat format - updated March, 2003.)


While we commend the Southern Poverty Law Center for its efforts to teach tolerance and highly recommend the use of their free teaching materials, we are in no way affiliated with them. For their site, please contact "www.teachingtolerance.org"