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As sure as October brings pumpkins and pep rallies, TT Director Maureen Costello knows she’ll hear dis-spiriting news about a school’s offensive choice of spirit week theme. Yesterday was no exception.

What do you do when anti-bias teaching strategies are derailed by real, in-the-moment fears? See how one educator responded to Islamophobia in her classroom.

Preserve a child's right to create and explore.

Regina Santiago has her own immigration story; sharing it helps students feel safe to share theirs.

Equity and social justice work in schools is easier said than done. This educator offers four steps for turning talk into action.

All over the nation people strive to answer Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous invocation: “What are you doing for others?” Many engage in projects to make their community a better place to live. My students at Life Academy in California have answered the call to service in several ways. First, they showed up on campus during a school holiday to beautify the school grounds, paint a mural, clean out an old storage room, build benches and tend to a garden. Second, they launched a 74-day fast “Season of Peace Building.” Students signed up to fast on certain days, in a kind of relay, to highlight the time from MLK day to Cesar Chavez day.

Some students struggle to see gender stereotypes, but telling personal stories can open their eyes.

This teacher asked herself, “What do I need to know to better support this student?” The answer led to more questions.