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If your students haven’t already begun testing, we know it’s right around the corner. This mindfulness practitioner suggests some ways to relieve students’ test-related stress.

Active parents make a teacher’s job much easier. They check up on homework assignments, help with discipline and guarantee that education is valued.

This toolkit for “Rock the Vote” lists 12 practical ways teachers and their students can rock the vote at school.

There are positive and negative effects from working in a helping profession like education. This toolkit aids educators in the exploration of the fatigue, burnout and even the trauma they may experience when helping students who are suffering.

An anti-bias trainer shares her techniques for fostering appreciation of different body types.

Sherise was beautiful, outgoing and athletic. But at the age of 10, she was also pushed to the brink. “They call me names all day and make me feel like I don’t belong. It never stops.” Her pretty face dissolved in sobs. Then, the words I feared the most. “I can’t face another day. Those kids who committed suicide ... that’s what I’m ready to do.”

When I was growing up, most of my friends were a lot like me. We looked a lot alike, lived in similar neighborhoods and rarely questioned the racial and cultural uniformity that was the fabric of our lives. This isn’t to say that my high school lacked all diversity. Like many high schools, our student population was fairly segregated, and I stuck with the group where I felt most comfortable. It wasn’t until college that I experienced some authentic diversity, developed friendships with people who were different from me, and began to recognize how isolated I had been in high school.

A Cincinnati school serves Mix It Up as part of academic life.

Almost one-third of teen relationships involve abuse. Help students learn to avoid—or break free from—unhealthy entanglements.