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Teaching Tolerance director Lecia J. Brooks reflects on the still segregated nature of our public schools.

When this teacher saw how devastated her feminist student group was by the 2016 election, she decided to do something to make them proud. She decided to march.

John was in my eighth-grade class. He was a rascal and my favorite kind of student. He was rambunctious and smart as a whip. And he and his family lived in poverty. His favorite memory of middle school is when I gave him detention time after school. “Why’d I get this?” he exclaimed. “Because you’ve racked up four deductions for talking and disrupting class,” I calmly said. He looked down at the detention slip, “Well, OK then.” It’s one of our favorite stories.

A Florida suicide raises sobering questions about how to stop bullying.

This toolkit suggests one way to study the inclusiveness of your school’s climate for LGBT students and athletes. The toolkit includes suggestions for assembling a committee, possible school survey questions and follow-up steps based on the results.

A history teacher leaves the struggle for objectivity behind.

Think Mix It Up can’t work at your school? This counselor at a school for students with a variety of special needs says it can.

Adults often marvel as they watch children frolic on the playground centers. Children’s interactions appear effortless. There seem to be no barriers, no ego or self-doubt. If you want to play with someone, you simply ask him or her. It looks so uncomplicated. If a child is willing and able to partake in the fun, then there are bad guys to vanquish, princesses to be rescued and treasures to be found. A child’s imagination is the only thing placing limits on the exploration.

After Election Day, this educator remains committed to making room for hope and action in his classroom.

A special part of gardening with youth is not only teaching them where their food comes from but also allowing cultural exchanges to happen.