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I held up the front page of our college newspaper and asked my first-year journalism students if any questions came to mind as they looked at the photographs of candidates running for president and vice president of our student government. It’s a multimedia storytelling class and the assignments for the week were about analyzing and taking photographs.

This teacher wanted to empower her female students through literature. She boosted all students’ reading skills and self-confidence in the process.

Spanish teacher Tricia Kelly reflects on one of her favorite teaching days.

When LFJ’s manager for teaching and learning—then a fifth-grade teacher—shared his personal story about the 9/11 attacks with his students, a fascinating, in-depth conversation about narrative writing occurred.

Have you ever found yourself reverting to a “teacher voice” like this blogger? Read how she uses cognitive defusion to help refocus her teaching on her values.

To close an English unit on social activism, this teacher had her students reflect by recognizing and writing about the activist potential in their classmates.

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

When I was a kid, I attended two different elementary schools in the same town. They were very different. One was large, suburban and within walking distance to downtown. The other was very small, outside the city limits in an agricultural area and had a significant number of Spanish-speaking students.