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Daily decisions can help divert students from the school-to-prison pipeline.

There’s more for your students than meets the eye in Leo Lionni’s classic children’s book Frederick.

The early grades are time when students gain significant personal experience grappling with their own ideas about right and wrong. This toolkit lets students work from experience to talk about knotty ethical issues.

Many students come to school with stories already attached to them. This teacher prefers to hear students’ own stories about themselves.

A teacher examines the intentionality that creates a safe and inclusive environment for LGBT students.

For me, the main activity of the first few days of 2011 has been the big “P.” Purge. Purge. Purge. Together, with my two children, we tossed “Baby Einstein” videotapes, Elmo board books and clothing for babies and for toddlers, into giant boxes destined for Goodwill. We filled an entire mini-van. And, I now feel lighter. A good cleansing can be so refreshing.

When 10-year-old Julia Alvarez immigrated to New York, she learned the power of words.

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell has declared April Confederate History Month. His original seven-paragraph proclamation was full of paeans to grey-clad heroes but nowhere mentioned the agonies of slavery. This understandably offended African Americans, and McDonnell spent a day or so getting beat up in the media.

Are you ready for a revolution? This veteran educator is.