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Every student teaches you something, and this educator will never forget the powerful lesson one student taught him about the diverse ways students can show their learning.

The editor of Teaching Tolerance reflects on the need to commemorate the toll of slavery.

How to help young offenders make the transition.

The days leading up to the presidential inauguration hold excellent opportunities to teach about civic engagement and civility.

No matter how educators identify or how long they have been teaching, it’s critical that they reflect on their ability to discuss race, racial (in)equality and racism—past and present—with students. This toolkit offers strategies for how educators can engage in this reflection and strengthen their practice.

This teacher helps students find commonalities between their own complex lives and the experiences of children a world away.

Jeanette Winterson, author and poet, once said, “Books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.” As a middle school language arts teacher, I believed in this theory but wanted to see it in action. When I suggested to my principal that I would like to organize a book club with my students and local senior citizens, he was cautiously intrigued by the idea.

When two American Studies teachers combined their classes to discuss school integration, they fostered a depth of learning they never anticipated.

In New Orleans it’s called “mess.” That cancerous, manipulative drama that teenage girls get wrapped up in every year. We dealt with our share of it this year at my school, most of it within the seventh grade. It came to a head with two strong-willed young ladies yelling from behind their desks, exchanging threats and insults.

This teacher believes it’s crucial for white teachers like her to seek out productive ways to talk about race and racism with students.