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I was apprehensive about beginning a unit on the concept of home in my high school art class. I’m still getting to know my students and was wary of delving in to such a personal topic without knowing what it might bring up for them. I want a curriculum centered on students’ lives, but also like to have an idea of what to expect.

Jenny started the year desperate to make friends. She was new, immature for her age and starting seventh grade. Because of a learning disability, Jenny was reading and writing at a second-grade level. She tried to hide that from friends. But in the cover-up effort, she often badmouthed her classmates and created drama.

Sometimes teachers have to think outside the box to reach students. This educator found his work requires great expansion.

Writing poems can help students address difficult issues and become agents for social change.

A student’s frustration over a math lesson offers an opportunity to learn about respect.

Educators have an ethical obligation to teach accurately about Thanksgiving. Here are some online resources that can help.

Speak Truth To Power creates a new generation of students leaders who are not only aware of human rights abuses, but prepared to do something about them.

How much do you know about the rights of English language learners?