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Teaching is a tough profession. We know it. It comes with a lot of responsibilities and challenges. Nevertheless, teaching is a very rewarding life path. Perhaps equally as tough is teaching teachers to be culturally competent. For the last six months, I’ve led a book study at my school on Gary Howard’s We Can’t Teach What We Don’t Know, which looks at cultural competency programs.

What can we say to our kids after a week like this one?

In the wake of more shootings, this white educator and father contemplates how he can undermine a system that makes his sons and him safer than their African-American counterparts.

This TT staffer reflects on the incessant violence in our country as an educator and a mother.

Mexican culture cannot be reduced to tacos, oversized sombreros and piñatas.

All educators have the civic responsibility to learn and teach the basic history and tenets of this movement for racial justice.

Students won’t succeed until they believe they can.

Even young students notice when their cultures are relevant only during heritage months.

After a colleague told her, “I’m not coming back next year,” this teacher reflected on what makes her an effective anti-bias educator.

“We don’t participate in class because we’re not as smart as the white kids.” See how this Latina educator responded when Latina students expressed this negative self-perception.