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Mix It Up is about the students, and they make some of the best organizers!

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!

Children need help learning to see perspectives that differ from their own, and teachers can guide them—even in preschool and the early grades.

Empathy and caring need to be nurtured through direct involvement in meaningful activities. Involving children in the care of plants and animals is an excellent way to do this.

Simulations as professional development? This school administrator argues they can foster empathy for students with learning differences.

“Introducing Gender: Girls, Boys and More!” is a K-2 lesson from Gender Spectrum originally published in The Gender Inclusive School: concrete strategies for creating a safer and more accepting school climate for all students. The lesson offers a set of activities that prompt students to think about what they like (favorite colors, toys, activities) as individual preferences—not due to them being a boy or girl.

Not all kids need the same inteventions. Check out part two of our three-part series for bullying interventions that focus on the 15 percent of students who need social skills training to stop bullying.

Celebrate Mix It Up this fall by making your school’s big event better than ever.

Abel Barrera Hernández has worked tirelessly to bring justice to some of Mexico’s most marginalized communities. For his work as founder and director of the Tlachinollan Center in southern Mexico, Hernández received an award from the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights last month. That, coupled with the fact that Friday is Human Rights Day, got me thinking how I, as a teacher, must also fight for human rights.