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Children need help learning to see perspectives that differ from their own, and teachers can guide them—even in preschool and the early grades.

A TT staff member reflects on her experience learning about refugee crises during middle and high school—and the implications of those lessons today.

This blogger suggests four strategies—or resolutions—that social justice educators and activists can use to protect their sanity and promote solidarity.

After learning an important lesson about student engagement as a classroom teacher, this teacher educator passed it on to her pre-service teachers: Focus on connecting with students versus trying to control them.

This toolkit for "The Ripple Effect" couples two powerful YCteen stories with the rigorous literacy strategies and tasks from TT's classroom resources.

This toolkit for “Shifting Out of Neutral” focuses on historical thinking development through critical literacy and builds on author Jonathan Gold’s call for educators to acknowledge and teach about power and bias.

Empathy and academics need not be mutually exclusive. In fact, a focus on empathy can increase student achievement. This toolkit for “Empathy for the ‘A’” shows teachers how to build empathy into their practice with a few adjustments to the things they already do.

This toolkit for “Segregation Forever?” provides an activity for students to use statistics and written analysis to express complex ideas about history.

This toolkit for “Smart Tech Use for Equity” provides a template you and your colleagues can use to support all students’ learning and development with technology.

This toolkit distills information from “Closed for Business” into nine questions (to ask and answer) about school closures. Integrate these questions into your next discussion about education reform.