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After spending a day observing two master language teachers, this teacher mentor and his mentee learned some valuable lessons about inclusion.

On this important anniversary, integrate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into your classroom reading instruction.

For me, the main activity of the first few days of 2011 has been the big “P.” Purge. Purge. Purge. Together, with my two children, we tossed “Baby Einstein” videotapes, Elmo board books and clothing for babies and for toddlers, into giant boxes destined for Goodwill. We filled an entire mini-van. And, I now feel lighter. A good cleansing can be so refreshing.

Poet Adrienne Rich once asked: How can we connect the process of learning to write well with [a] student’s own reality, and not simply teach her/him how to write acceptable lies in standard English? The question appeared in her 1979 essay, “Taking Women Students Seriously.” Last week, Adrienne Rich passed away, leaving today’s educators to ponder alone a question that remains as pertinent as ever.

This writer had a light-bulb moment about his student's family—and about himself.

The emancipation story remains largely incomplete, over 150 years later.

Our online Teaching Hard History Text Library includes a wealth of primary and secondary source documents about slavery to share with students of all ages.