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There is no “typical” rural teacher. Here’s a glimpse into the lives of three teachers in diverse, far-flung settings.

The first time I met Donnie (not his real name), he was wearing a green dress with gold trim, had shoulder-length hair, and wore glasses frames with no lenses. His hair was matted and he was covered in dirt. His eyes were bloodshot and filled with tears. He would not speak to me for the first 20 minutes. And then, in a flood of emotion, he began to tell me his plight.

Are your school’s dress and behavior policies doing more harm than good?

Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Dean Hamer shares how his documentary A Place in the Middle, co-directed with Joe Wilson, can help students see the value of inclusion, the power of cultural heritage and their ability to create a more positive school climate.

This toolkit for the Story Corner “The First 100 Days” offers suggested steps for planning a 100-day (or fewer days) classroom plan.

This high school language arts teacher marvels at how his students were engaged in controversial and difficult topics.

Twitter, Google Docs and their cousins shrink the spaces between cultures even as they expand the reach of a typical classroom. How can you use them to promote social justice?

What you need to know to facilitate classroom conversation about this controversial topic.

I held up the front page of our college newspaper and asked my first-year journalism students if any questions came to mind as they looked at the photographs of candidates running for president and vice president of our student government. It’s a multimedia storytelling class and the assignments for the week were about analyzing and taking photographs.