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Athletic programs don’t have to be a nightmare for LGBT students. Coaches are the key.

The question above was posed to me in the comments section of a blog post I wrote recently. The post was entitled "Imani and the Cabbage Seeds." In it, I wondered about “isms”—racism, sexism and other things that either separate people or give one group power over another.

To best serve LGBTQ students, GSAs should not exist in a vacuum. Schools and school districts should implement a host of other practices to complement the efforts of a GSA.

Language lessons create common ground in a Detroit elementary school.

Katie is the student I imagined all my students would be like when I first started teaching. In my fantasy, all my students were motivated, conscientious and ready to independently tackle any challenge I proposed. In this same fantasy, I was not the wild-haired, one-legged juggler I’ve become, but rather a calm force of wisdom and benevolence.

As a kid, I remember listening wide-eyed to my grandmother tell me about the “Dummy Room.” The Dummy Room was one of her first assignments as a young teacher in small-town Iowa in the 1930s. Like other Dummy Rooms across the country, it was the dumping ground for the school district’s hard cases.

Scholars are divided on the role of the U.S. Supreme Court in the civil rights movement. This blogger, a history teacher, explains why this debate is a valuable lesson.

This toolkit for “One Hundred Years in the Making” provides instructional ideas to experience the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) without traveling to Washington, D.C.