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When a conflict between students escalated to a physical level, this teacher looked at all the factors involved, including the classroom space.

Scripted curricula can limit teachers and hurt morale. But living social justice ideals in the classroom still imparts valuable lessons to students.

When we talk about devoting so many minutes to each subject in a school day, we need to make time for students to communicate about what really matters to them.

A TT staff member reflects on her experience learning about refugee crises during middle and high school—and the implications of those lessons today.

While wrapping up the school year, this teacher learned two powerful lessons from her students.

“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.” These few words, spoken casually by Sonia Sotomayor at the annual Mario G. Olmos Law and Cultural Diversity Lecture at UC-Berkeley in 2001, came back to haunt President Barack Obama’s nominee for the United States Supreme Court during the spring and summer of 2009. Hard to believe that this brief statement could cause such anguish, particularly among the conservative white senators who form part of the Senate Judiciary Committee, yet they led to days of arrogant grilling by the Senators and weeks of newspaper articles and commentary by television pundits speculating on what Sotomayor meant, whether it would hurt her confirmation, and what it would signal for the new court.