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Help students connect history to the present by including lesser-known events and milestones when you teach the history of school integration.

Teacher of the Year Mandy Manning talks with TT about the movement to end child detention, the upcoming Teach-In for Freedom and a Call to Action she hopes all educators will hear.

Guided by the belief that all children deserve to be free and to be in school, the organizers of Teachers Against Child Detention are calling upon fellow educators to demand the end of child immigrant detention.

How do we talk to our students about incidents like last week’s Ralph Northam blackface photograph scandal?

If we want to be allies to our students, we have to recognize—and honor—their full identities. That means also recognizing and working to remedy interlocking systems of oppression.

How are you affirming nonbinary students in your classroom?

Avoid minimizing Black history; include the full human experience beyond enslavement.

We can’t teach the truth about American history without including the voices of enslaved people.

Students are capable of processing complex narratives; we just need to give them the tools.

Going beyond feel-good narratives and examining context helps students learn a fuller and more accurate account of black history, including the often-oversimplified history of the civil rights movement.