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Inspired by a Teaching Tolerance story, this educator asked her third-grade students to create original superheroes modeled after themselves.

The days leading up to the presidential inauguration hold excellent opportunities to teach about civic engagement and civility.

Teachers, principals and school districts nationwide are grappling with how to respond to the increase in deportations and heightened fears of students and families.

President Trump’s budget proposal uses the pretense of civil rights to further his school choice agenda—at the expense of research-based public school programming.

By engaging in creative processes alongside our students, we create spaces where it is safe to take risks and grow.

This TT Award winner will extend his usual coverage of the Sherman Alexie classic to address how dominant cultural narratives reinforce who is considered American—and who isn’t.

A white educator reflects on this reality: Most teachers in the United States are white, which means that many children of color don’t have academic role models who look like them.

What do you do with a teacher who provides students with authentic learning opportunities? A teacher who invests her own resources to support students? A teacher who was voted Teacher of the Year two of the last three years? If you’re Superintendent Jacqueline Cassell at the Pontiac Academy for Excellence Middle School in Pontiac, Mich., you fire her.

When a conflict between students escalated to a physical level, this teacher looked at all the factors involved, including the classroom space.

This high school language arts teacher marvels at how his students were engaged in controversial and difficult topics.