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This toolkit for “Smart Tech Use for Equity” provides a template you and your colleagues can use to support all students’ learning and development with technology.

Students struggle to find a way forward after their classroom’s election.

Cyberbullying happens in code. Break it.

A high school teacher helps his students challenge their own racist beliefs.

A stunning revelation about one of his students led this educator to rethink his teaching practice.

John was in my eighth-grade class. He was a rascal and my favorite kind of student. He was rambunctious and smart as a whip. And he and his family lived in poverty. His favorite memory of middle school is when I gave him detention time after school. “Why’d I get this?” he exclaimed. “Because you’ve racked up four deductions for talking and disrupting class,” I calmly said. He looked down at the detention slip, “Well, OK then.” It’s one of our favorite stories.

During spring break, I was reminded of what a huge impact a small decision can make. I caught up on information about two former students: Richard and Patrick. They were quite similar when I had them as eighth-graders nearly four years ago. Both were over-age (16 years old) and received special education services. Both got into trouble regularly and were suspended multiple times. However, due mostly to a couple of seemingly small decisions, their lives changed in vastly different ways.

This teacher asked herself, “What do I need to know to better support this student?” The answer led to more questions.

The Supreme Court has upheld affirmative action but, one educator points out, we still have a long way to go to achieve equity in college admissions.

Critical literacy can expose the assumption that whiteness is “normal” and provide students support for talking about difficult topics.