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Meet five educators chosen for the first-ever Teaching Tolerance awards.

The first day of my second year of teaching, a third-grader walked into class, saw another student and punched him in the nose. He didn’t say anything or give any indication that he was going to do this. It just happened. After cleaning up the blood and redirecting the class, I asked the attacker why he wanted to punch someone else. “He’s Mexican,” he said. “He don’t belong in my class.”

Growing up, I remember the children in “special ed” seemed to live in an alternate universe within our school. Regardless of the distinctions in their challenges, they all were placed together in one class, shuttled around as one throng, rarely included in the activities the rest of us took for granted.

Our book reviews can help you keep your practice fresh and informed.

For 20 nights, Kate has collapsed onto a different air mattress in a new space, a strange place—none of them home. The 15-year-old, her parents and two younger brothers cart themselves and their meager possessions from shelter to shelter.

When LGBT teachers have to live in fear of being outed, their capacity to service students in an authentic way is diminished.

Curriculum kit challenges assumptions, builds confidence and questions stereotypes.

This teacher was prepared for her ‘speak up’ moment—and you can be, too!

When a teacher accompanies her students to see the film Bully, she asks important questions about how adults in the school building handle the issue.

“A Painter Named Kennedy” provides students with a narrative about the experiences of one young man with a disability. This toolkit structures a class reading of the story.