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To truly teach tolerance to children, parents must promote more than the Golden Rule.

Tapping into community resources conveys to students that their families, their neighbors and they themselves matter.

In the wake of the election results, one teacher tries to help students reflect clearly on the voters who decided the election—and to maintain hope.

Class discussions about To Kill a Mockingbird typically focus on the book’s white protagonists. This brand-new TT lesson turns the lens by focusing on the perspective of one of the book’s African American characters.

Activists and allies from a variety of identity groups work hard to dismantle exclusionary conceptions of gender. In the classroom, teachers have an opportunity to extend this work, one sentence at a time.

Sara Wicht, TT's senior manager for teaching and learning, participated in the ASCD Forum “Learning for All = Teaching for All." Read her contribution here!

We need to prepare children for the increasingly globalized world we live in. Improving their learning of languages is a good start.

Teaching for Change situates Colin Kaepernick’s refusal to stand for “The Star-Spangled Banner” within a historical tradition of athletes protesting injustice.

This history teacher offers a strategy for teaching about the presidential election. It starts with organizing ideas into three categories: consensus, legitimately controversial and out of bounds.

The day after Valentine’s Day 2008, I watched my 1st period students file into the room. They were uncharacteristically quiet. When the bell rang, they all looked at me, waiting to hear how I might make sense of the previous night’s tragedy when Steven Philip Kazmierczak opened fire in Cole Hall on Northern Illinois University’s campus, shooting 21 people and killing five.