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Story Corner - Natalie gains a new friend that she almost missed out on.

In a world where competition awards few people on the backs of many, school awards can be redesigned to prioritize equity.

"Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me." I was sitting outside on the playground bench wiping the tears of a child when this proverb came to mind. It isn’t true, of course. Nancy was a second-grader going through an evaluation process to help us understand why she couldn't read. Kayla was one of her classmates. As they were climbing the ladder of the slide, Kayla yelled out, "Nancy is retarded!" Ouch. Words can break our hearts.

Rural educators face just as many challenges as urban colleagues when it comes to helping children of color. But there are tools to help them.

This just in: Men make up a small fraction of early childhood and elementary school teachers. And for children younger than 6, having a male teacher is a rarity. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, just 2.3 percent of preschool and kindergarten teachers are men.

By tracing the footsteps of those who fought for civil rights, you may begin to think about how you can use your own voice to make positive changes.

A third-grade teacher shares how she uses diverse picture books to surround her students with mirrors and windows—and to combat implicit biases.

This toolkit accompanies the story corner “Michael's Diary” and provides classroom resources for making student journals, as well as prompts that encourage students at all grade levels to express who they are through writing.

In early 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders continued plans for a Poor People’s Campaign. It would take place in the spring in Washington, D.C. The poor and those in solidarity with them would take up temporary residence and march peacefully on the Capitol and advocate for substantial anti-poverty legislation from Congress. They would demand jobs, healthcare and decent housing.