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Creating schools that are safe and empowering requires the involvement of every stakeholder.

Elementary school-aged children get no time to just be, experience their own selfhood, to rest. It’s important for the development of creativity, for mental growth and even for discovering something new. However, from the time most children get up in the morning until they go to sleep at night, someone is hurling demands at them.

Teaching Tolerance lost a longtime friend over the weekend.

A teacher examines the intentionality that creates a safe and inclusive environment for LGBT students.

A middle school history teacher reflects on how neutrality won’t work in the face of bigotry, xenophobia and fearmongering—and what that means for his classroom practice.

Affordable ways to build positive school climate.

Nadine Gordimer’s activism helped make the world better for all of us and leaves important lessons for teachers and students.

Schools have a responsibility to maintain a safe learning environment for all students—this seems on first examination a simple enough statement. It isn’t. Two words are key—“learning” and “all.” A school that is inclusive of all its students but unable to nurture learning has failed in its responsibility. An academically successful school that only supports its majority students has equally neglected its obligation.