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Racial inequity, gender stereotypes and heternormity continue to dominate children’s books. This toolkit will help you assess your classroom library and make future selections that reflect a range of cultures, genders, immigration and socio-economic statuses, sexual orientations and family structures.

This toolkit shows how Teaching Tolerance’s Critical Practices for Anti-bias Education can help foster safe and effective instruction about the sensitive and serious topic of slavery.

Serial Testimony is a facilitation method that empowers students by valuing their knowledge and insight. It offers young people the opportunity to testify to the realities of their own lives, making their personal reflections part of the curriculum.

The story “Z and Vielpunkt” teaches important lessons about how we show care for others. This toolkit provides writing, reflection and research activities to help students reflect on those lessons.

TT director Maureen Costello thinks students have one simple request: “See me.”

Learn how principal Susan Weinman embraces the whole child.

TT answers your tough questions. This time, we discuss teaching black history and honoring your and your students’ identities.

Reader Exchange “Out At Last” from the Summer 2013 issue sparked discussion online. Though I’m an LGBT teacher, I do think that there are professional boundaries and my love life isn’t relevant to my student’s

Jeanie Greenidge felt invisible as a child. Now she’s helping make sure every student is seen.

When students make the rules, classroom community soars.