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We are all still thinking, talking, teaching and grieving about the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old in Florida, wearing that universal hoodie. Again, as a nation, we confront the issue of race and what it means to be an African-American teenage male in this country.

For two years I taught preschool to a diverse group of energetic children. Every morning one boy would enter the classroom, throw down his stuff, run over to the dress-up corner and slip into a shimmery polyester wedding gown.

Hand-raising workshops combat participation inequity.

As adults and authority figures, teachers have power over their students. This toolkit is an “adult privilege” checklist teachers can use as a self-assessment tool to help them think about their own privilege in the classroom.

This writer had a light-bulb moment about his student's family—and about himself.

General Mills recently ran an ad for Cheerios cereal featuring an interracial couple and their child. This is cause for celebration and an opportunity to help students explore race and expand media literacy. Unfortunately, not all viewers saw it that way.

The emancipation story remains largely incomplete, over 150 years later.

Horrified at a fourth-grade teacher’s hateful Facebook rant after the pool incident in McKinney, Texas, this TT staffer realizes she could have been just like that teacher—if not for strong anti-bias education.

There’s growing momentum to take down Confederate flags, but our work to denounce systemic racism cannot stop at symbolic markers.

In the final installment of the three-part blog series, this Mix It Up coordinator shares how her school plans for the big event