Lining up From Eileen Durgin-Clinchard, Ph.D., a retired teacher now conducting diversity workshops as an avocation from Lincoln, Nebraska: "Ways to line up that do not include gender are short ways to illustrate that being different is fine. For example, students can line up according to shades of hair from dark to light. I point out that differences exist even among those who think they are alike. Are differences good or bad or just different? Why do we like some things? Name similarities. Or students line up according to birthdays and talk about seasons and bring out the value in seasons and weather. Or students line up according to when they were born and use a map to figure out who ws born the closest to the school and who was the farthest away. Are they all from the same cfity or lots of different places? Does being from someplace different make you special? Is everyone special in some way?"