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This toolkit provides lesson plan ideas for taking a virtual civil rights tour with your students and for bringing the voices of civil rights veterans into the classroom.

This middle school teacher has an idea that can greatly impact student learning—with students leading the way.

A first-year teacher uses journalism exercises—lessons learned from a favorite teacher—to build classroom unity and trust.

After the Southern Poverty Law Center responded to a plea for help from students in Savannah, Tenn., we’re happy to report that students successfully wore pro-LGBT slogans at school last week without resistance and with mostly positive responses from classmates.

Online education helps some students—and shortchanges others.

While wrapping up the school year, this teacher learned two powerful lessons from her students.

Across the nation, schools struggle to celebrate athletic spirit without sinking to cheers and chants steeped in intolerance.

"Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me." I was sitting outside on the playground bench wiping the tears of a child when this proverb came to mind. It isn’t true, of course. Nancy was a second-grader going through an evaluation process to help us understand why she couldn't read. Kayla was one of her classmates. As they were climbing the ladder of the slide, Kayla yelled out, "Nancy is retarded!" Ouch. Words can break our hearts.