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Writing poems can help students address difficult issues and become agents for social change.

As new generations come along, we hope the old beliefs mired in hate and separation will die out. The lines that once separated us continue to fade. We have evidence. Our society is more accepting now than it was decades ago of multiracial relationships, multiracial families and multiracial children. Blogger Pamela Cytrynbaum says the new generation is “rejecting the color lines” that once constrained them. The New York Times writer Susan Saulny poignantly describes the younger generation as having a “more fluid sense of identity.”

When I was growing up, most of my friends were a lot like me. We looked a lot alike, lived in similar neighborhoods and rarely questioned the racial and cultural uniformity that was the fabric of our lives. This isn’t to say that my high school lacked all diversity. Like many high schools, our student population was fairly segregated, and I stuck with the group where I felt most comfortable. It wasn’t until college that I experienced some authentic diversity, developed friendships with people who were different from me, and began to recognize how isolated I had been in high school.

Mindfulness a not only a great tool to help students focus, but it also helps educators to be more culturally responsive.

A trip to Haiti gives Joseph a new perspective on his identity and his adoption.

After the re-evaluation of a lesson, this teacher was able to connect with students on a much deeper level.

When you’re the only person of color in your class, school can become a struggle between two worlds.

When my daughter pulls hard on the heavy glass doors of the Martin Luther King Jr. Laboratory School and races upstairs into her fifth-grade classroom, she is living my dream.

Meet a school district that brought Black Lives Matter into the classroom—and learn how you could do it too.

A white educator shares her journey with understanding implicit racial bias in teaching.