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Hate at School: A Back-to-School Look at the Past Year
“Back to school” shouldn’t mean “back to hate.” Here’s a look at the hate incidents we reported last school year—and steps for making this year better.
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Engendering Inclusivity in a Language Class
Language classrooms allow students to grapple with how gender affects their understanding of the world, but they also allow teachers to engender their own classrooms as inclusive and safe places for all students.
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You Spoke, We Listened
Reader reactions: your responses to Islamophobia, native voices and Kid President.
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How to Talk About Puerto Rico With Your Students
The crisis in Puerto Rico is complicated and tied to its history with the United States, but educators can address it with students and inspire empathy.
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From Columbus to Charlottesville: An Urgent Call for Benevolence
This former high school history teacher now realizes that she failed her students by sticking to the subject matter and neglecting what’s most important about education. She’s worried her fellow educators might be failing too.
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'We Share One World'
A message from Teaching Tolerance director Brian Willoughby.
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Mix It Up: Score One for Humanity
Two truths and one lie. That’s how Mix It Up at Lunch Day began at Fordson High School in Dearborn, Mich. Students sat down to lunch with people who were not in their usual social circle. As an icebreaker, students played a game in which one person told two truths and one lie: the rest of the group had to guess which statement was false.
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Pets Make Great Teachers of Compassion
Children can learn a thing or two from pets. They learn responsibility through feeding and caring for their furry friends. They learn about loss when their pets die and they partake in their first funeral rites.
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Why Do I Teach? I've Changed My Answer
When I was studying to be a teacher, I had to write a philosophy of education. This essay was to explain what I believed about kids and the role teachers and education played in their lives. I wrote that all kids could learn, that they all deserved equal access to inspired teaching and that my role was to meet them wherever they were and serve them in the way that best met their needs.Although I still believe those things are true, I've come to realize that my teaching is driven more by a different philosophy than the one I wrote about.