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Abel Barrera Hernández has worked tirelessly to bring justice to some of Mexico’s most marginalized communities. For his work as founder and director of the Tlachinollan Center in southern Mexico, Hernández received an award from the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights last month. That, coupled with the fact that Friday is Human Rights Day, got me thinking how I, as a teacher, must also fight for human rights.

In the second of a three-part series, this new-educator mentor explains how to build beginning teachers’ strengths in culturally and linguistically responsive practices.

As your students move on to the next grade, what will they remember about you?

Children are susceptible to superficial notions of beauty, but this teacher believes the real purpose of education is to give them a different message.

New evidence of the bullying crisis in our schools appears daily in news reports and blogs. For some students, verbal harassment, cyber-ostracism and physical abuse are as routine as turning in homework. That’s particularly true for students who are—or simply perceived to be—gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender (LGBT).

Nature learning is formative in early childhood, and it can happen in even the most urban settings.

Teaching Tolerance director Maureen Costello honors Julian Bond, a champion for voting rights.

Follow student activists as they Mix It Up at their schools.