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She’s popular, but is she right? TT examines Dr. Ruby Payne’s A Framework for Understanding Poverty.

Sometimes the “T” in LGBTQ gets overlooked.

Paul Gorski calls on fellow educators examine the classist assumptions infiltrating classrooms and schools.

Part of the 'Why I Teach' series

An Ohio teacher dares students to envision a new community.

New curriculum offers step-by-step lessons for engaging in effective argument on divisive issues.

Every week I write a quotation on the board and ask my students to write responses to it in their journals. One of our favorite quotes is by William Butler Yeats: "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." This quote aptly captures the reason why I teach. A group of minds in a room–thinking through problems together–can generate amazing heat and ignite a fire.

Teaching students about the role children have played in the march for civil rights—historically and today—is just one of many ways teachers can bring the Women’s March into the classroom.

In the world of alternative facts, media literacy is becoming an increasingly essential component for raising critical thinkers in the classroom. A recent movie promotional campaign highlights this need and offers a great teachable moment.

Teachers often have mixed feelings as the new school year approaches, but one of the most common—and least talked about—is dread. Here’s what the TT Advisory Board had to say about it.