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We each have a part to play, a role uniquely ours each day. I’d raised my hand often enough and spoke about equity and LGBT rights during my years in Minnesota’s Anoka-Hennepin School District to convince myself I was accomplishing the role I’d chosen when I decided to teach.

Every school day just after 2 p.m., Sandra pushes her cart into my classroom to clean the bathroom and empty the trash cans. She is the school custodian and my students love her. When students hear her squeaky wheels in the hallway outside our door, they listen for her kind giggle as she enters the room. "Ms. Sandra! Ms. Sandra! Can I help you empty the trash? Can I help you?" they yell out with their hands waving in the air.

Let’s uncover implicit bias—together.

Carol Anderson explains how, in many Southern states, Brown v. Board of Education fueled decades of resistance to school integration.

The rhetoric used by this summer’s Olympic media has given educators many rich examples to introduce students to intersectionality.

A new directive on transgender students, issued today by the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice, applies to all public schools.

Yesterday, you needed to reassure your students and keep them safe. Today, you need to tell them the truth: Everything is not OK. We have work to do, and we can do it.

The events of this week have made it clear: It’s time to bring genocide and Holocaust awareness lessons back into the spotlight.