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Social justice theater can teach your students to take the story into their own hands.

A Florida teenager finds school officials apathetic on sexual harassment.

White nationalism has come out of the basement and entered the mainstream. Would you recognize it if it came to your classroom?

A new film from Teaching Tolerance shows youth have the power to change the world.

Every now and again, a student will say something that leaves me speechless and desperate for the correct response. I can feel in my bones that the moment is about to become pivotal. One of these moments came while we were reading Katherine Paterson’s novel The Great Gilly Hopkins, in which the main character deals with her racism. We were in the process of analyzing her character, her motivations and her racist attitudes, and I could tell that my sixth-graders didn’t really understand the theme of racism, so I needed to step away from the novel for a moment and put the history in context for them.

Maya Angelou was an activist up until the very end of her life: visible, accessible, present to the people to whom her work and her message of hope meant the most.