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Encourage students to respectfully ask questions and make statements about other belief systems.

A student's comment prompted this classroom teacher to initiate an in-depth conversation about Islam, Muslims and Islamophobia.

The morning of the 10th anniversary of 9/11, I logged in to Facebook as I do most weekend mornings to see the status updates of 200 or so acquaintances. Many had posted links to news articles and patriotic photos or comments about their memory of that day in 2001. I was not prepared, however, to read a blatantly xenophobic post by someone I had gone to high school with. He called for the extermination of Islam and the strategic bombing of all countries in the Middle East.

Karen Sharpe teaches for the moment when she can see the unlikely become possible.

Reader reactions: Your thoughts on being vulnerable, Roma, immigration and more.

One young girl's experience on the school bus mirrors problems going on all over the country.