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Silence speaks volumes. Our students are listening.

Grow food justice in the garden or the classroom.

Social Media in the Classroom

Web Exclusive activities for What is Rural America? (page 28-31) from Teaching Tolerance No. 38.

Students notice what teachers hang on their classroom walls. That’s one reason this teacher displays anti-racist and anti-sexist posters and buttons.

Just Children Who Bully—And You Can Help Them

This history teacher uses Chimamanda Adichie’s TED Talk, “The Danger of a Single Story,” to foster his middle school students’ understanding of the relationship between narrative and power.

"Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me." I was sitting outside on the playground bench wiping the tears of a child when this proverb came to mind. It isn’t true, of course. Nancy was a second-grader going through an evaluation process to help us understand why she couldn't read. Kayla was one of her classmates. As they were climbing the ladder of the slide, Kayla yelled out, "Nancy is retarded!" Ouch. Words can break our hearts.

Hand-raising workshops combat participation inequity.