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A middle school wellness program removes the social rigors from gym class.

The editor of Teaching Tolerance writes on critics' objections to the magazine's treatment of gay and lesbian issues

I wiggle in my desk chair, softly swiveling it ever so gently back and forth, and fidget with my pen. I am a student in my own classroom. At the front of the room stands a teacher in my place. To outside observers the girl dressed in flip flops and jeans pointing at things projected to the white board could not possibly be in charge—if anything they might mistake her as an unruly student who escaped from the confines of her desk.

More educators are turning to service-learning projects for charitable activities — and helping to foster connections between students and the human beings they aim to serve.

As a child I knew my grandfather was different. Grandpapa had been a sharecropper in southern Indiana. He had worked most of his adult life raising corn and pigs. His hands were big and callused. He stooped when he walked and the skin on his neck and face was scarred. His earlobes were long, stretched and fused down low at the back of his jawbone. His eyes seemed to be a bit elongated in their sockets. He was different because he looked different. You see, when he was a young child he had played with matches and caught his clothes on fire. His facial disfigurement was the price he paid for the bad judgment of a toddler.

The editor of Teaching Tolerance explores the ins and outs of social boundaries at school.

A first-year teacher uses journalism exercises—lessons learned from a favorite teacher—to build classroom unity and trust.

The greatest achievement for this Teacher of the Year is the daily practice of empathy.