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Human beings come in all sizes. How can educators promote health -- and size acceptance?

Dim the lights and get ready to learn with these TT-approved films!

For one family, finding a kindergarten classroom meant getting honest about race, class and privilege.

Folklore invites students to explore the curriculum of "real life."

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

A gay student takes the bold step of being true to himself

The problems of rural schools are often invisible to the public and policymakers. The solutions may be found in the communities themselves.

Today, I opened my classroom door to a surprise. Diego was back! He put his arm around my shoulder and said, “It’s good to see you again.” One of the best things about being a teacher is when students come back. Some of those homecomings are more significant than others. Just a 10th-grader, Diego wasn’t back to tell me about his college life, his career or kids. He was back to tell me that in juvenile hall, where he’d spent the last three weeks, he had found out he loved to write.

If you’ve read To Kill a Mockingbird, you might remember the scene in which Scout beats up Walter Cunningham in the schoolyard. It’s the first day of school and Scout’s teacher, Miss Caroline, is not from Maycomb. She doesn’t understand just how hard the Great Depression has hit the farmers of southern Alabama. So she innocently offers Walter a quarter to buy lunch in town. He refuses. As Scout explains he’s a Cunningham, and Cunninghams never take anything they can’t pay back. Every student at my school is eligible for free lunch this year, so they understand Walter’s situation. But what they don’t understand is “why other students get to go off campus for lunch and we don’t.”