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This toolkit accompanies the article “Uncommon Ground,” and provides a classroom activity to celebrate diversity and build common ground by making personal story quilts.

Students need guidance in navigating social media, especially when it’s being used to bully and silence their peers.

A video of a moment in a high school basketball game inspired many, but this writer had a decidedly different interpretation.

Many schools are offering civil rights trips over spring break. Find out how you can engage students in your communities and across the country.

Despite efforts of college and university admissions people, high-achieving students from small towns and rural areas are being left out of the matriculation process because of poverty.

After rejecting an offer of prayer from a student, this teacher reflects about the power of religious freedom that she teaches in class.

When it seems that tragedies are happening in rapid succession, we evoke a quote from educator and television host Fred Rogers of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. As a boy, his mother told him that when scary thing happen to “look for the helpers.”

When a student’s frustration escalates, this teacher suggests several ways to address it that does not include punishment.

Invariably, issues are raised in classrooms that bring charged responses from students. How can educators set the stage for safe, respectful dialogue and learning?

School activities surrounding Christmas can have unintentional negative consequences like reinforcing commercialism, focusing on "good" and "bad" behavior and isolating students who don't celebrate the holiday.