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Many educators believe they are offering a balance when it comes to acknowledging holidays, but Christmas continues to receive the greatest emphasis.

Monica Edwards taught a class of primarily African American and Latino students. Her initial inability to reach them turned into a lesson.

Including religious diversity in academic content lessens the threat to individual belief systems and helps students be college and career ready.

How do we help students fine-tune their skepticism so that it leads to knowledge-seeking and openness to new ideas?

This English teacher’s students engage in lots of self-reflection toward the end of the year. This year, she added in a missing element: questions about how they’ve affected each other.

The depth and clarity of a teacher's multicultural lens can make — or break — immigrant students' ability to learn.

Every week I write a quotation on the board and ask my students to write responses to it in their journals. One of our favorite quotes is by William Butler Yeats: "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." This quote aptly captures the reason why I teach. A group of minds in a room–thinking through problems together–can generate amazing heat and ignite a fire.

What’s your go-to text by an indigenous author? This educator calls attention to the limitations of using only Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko, and offers a detailed list of suggested additional readings.