In confronting attacks on LGBTQ+ students’ rights to representation and safety in public education, we hold firm to creating inclusive and affirming learning spaces.
Addiction can suffocate a community—especially its youngest members. But schools that employ trauma-informed practices are giving childhood victims of the opioid epidemic a fighting chance.
Women’s History Month is a crucial time to remind the nation and the world of women’s important work and the barriers that exist to full gender equality.
Through community walks around students’ neighborhoods, educators and school staff can learn from those they teach, creating a stronger and more responsive school community.
This toolkit shows how Teaching Tolerance’s Critical Practices for Anti-bias Education can help foster safe and effective instruction about the sensitive and serious topic of slavery.
To close an English unit on social activism, this teacher had her students reflect by recognizing and writing about the activist potential in their classmates.
On February 27, 1960, about 300 college students marched into downtown Nashville to confront Jim Crow segregation. Each of the marchers understood that they belonged to a larger movement of young people. Just three weeks earlier, in Greensboro, N.C., four college students staged a sit-in at the whites-only lunch counter in a Woolworth store. That action desegregated the lunch counter and triggered waves of copycat protests—like the one in Nashville.