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Silent Sustained Reading (SSR) is a staple of many classrooms. At my school it lives in Advisory, a 50-minute mixed-grade class that balances literacy development with study hall and school-culture building. The goal of SSR is simple: For 30 minutes twice a week the entire school population is reading silently—and enjoying it.

How do you encourage colleagues to participate in sustained conversations about justice, equity and tolerance?

This teacher turned an everyday frustration into a teachable moment—for himself.

Wearing blackface as a joke or a tribute suggests lack of understanding about the origin of this racist practice.

When students thought success was impossible, wooden model rockets served as tools to boost self-esteem.

Occupy D.C. protesters Nathaniel Brown and Nicole Normile are high-schoolers. That’s not unheard of. The really interesting story is that they were encouraged to get involved by their high school civics teacher. The two seniors are part of the seven-member, student-directed extra-curricular club “Waking Up the Nation” at the Howard Gardner School in Alexandria, Va. Since its inception in the Fall of 2010, the social activism club has tackled a number of social projects from preventing war to seeking environmental justice under the leadership of faculty advisor Matt Hawley is the group’s faculty advisor.

This toolkit for “No Time Off” offers a planning tool for educators to help lighten the load for students who have significant out-of-school responsibilities.

Rodrigue drove me nuts. He stood too close and talked too much. If his hand was raised and I didn’t call on him, his face would contort and he would put his head down on his desk. He answered questions with a “know-it-all” tone that the other students (and I) found obnoxious.

Two leading multicultural educators reflect on how White teachers can help dismantle a legacy of racial domination and injustice.