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In New Orleans it’s called “mess.” That cancerous, manipulative drama that teenage girls get wrapped up in every year. We dealt with our share of it this year at my school, most of it within the seventh grade. It came to a head with two strong-willed young ladies yelling from behind their desks, exchanging threats and insults.

Black students everywhere made history as pioneers paving the way for racial integration in their hometowns.

A school for the deaf celebrates Dia de los Muertos.

A new third-grader arrives at your school. He is blind. He is autistic. He is developmentally delayed. How does your school deal with the special needs of this child?

It was meet-the-teacher night at my elementary school. The room was ready for a new class of second-graders. The rubric for grading paragraphs and stories was on the wall around the writing center. A scientific method poster hung on the wall in the science corner. Essential questions for numbers and operations were on the chalkboard in the math area. And a picture commemorating the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education was on the social studies wall. I was ready to help my children become successful students.

Focus teacher training on transformative education—not handgun use.

While reading and listening to the reflections of the high school seniors he teaches, one educator finds himself troubled by the persistence of outdated gender norms.

Read how this TT awardee helps students feel validated in their identities.

This teacher is often asked, “Why can’t you let ‘social justice’ go?” Here’s her answer.

The editor of Teaching Tolerance addresses issues of school violence.