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Part of the "Why I Teach" series.

Rural and urban students build a new vehicle for friendship in an Internet mural project.

Toni Giarnese found inspiration in her job thanks to a disabled boy who looked a lot like a knight in shining armor.

Like many, if not most, I had a rough first year as a teacher. I was 21 years old and full of passion and desire but little else. I had survived student teaching on the Navajo Reservation for six months, but arrived on the other side of that experience with much to learn. I was teaching two-hour blocks of seventh-grade history and English. I was struggling on almost every level in almost every area.

An essay by the 2008 Republican Party Presidential Nominee.

Environmental sensitivity and social justice concerns can lead to action.

What "little" things do you do that might marginalize your students in poverty?

When a simple greeting engenders stereotypes.