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Student pushback against mixing up their lunchtime seating can be a perfect teaching opportunity.

National Mix It Up at Lunch Day may be over, but promoting friendship at school is a priority all year.

My day begins supervising fourth-grade recess. It’s a nice way to ease into being in the school building, where I often cringe at how we insist that small children stay tethered to their chairs for so many hours in a row.

I am in awe of young people. Today, for example, I read about a group of teens in Louisville, Ky. who continued to speak on LGBT issues. High school students from duPont Manual High School were censored for writing about gay issues, but they refused to let their voices be silenced. They decided to run an underground paper, The Red Pen, and won the annual Courage in Student Journalism Award.

Ronjanae broke down recently. She said she felt like “the only overweight child at this school.”

One-size-fits-all appearance policies cannot work in our increasingly diverse schools.

Critical literacy is just as important for visual texts, such as cartoons, as it is for the written word. This toolkit will help your students read Sikhtoons while thinking about the social justice implications.

Apply the seven-step case method to another case—or to a case of your own.

Want to ensure a successful Mix It Up at Lunch Day? Get your students involved!