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Human beings come in all sizes. How can educators promote health -- and size acceptance?

Teaching Tolerance director Maureen Costello discusses the difficulty of teaching the 2016 election.

Elementary students learn a lesson in the language of respect.

As Earth Day approaches, it’s a good time to think about how you approach issues of identity and diversity when it comes to the environment—regardless of the subject you teach. Here’s how one science teacher did it.

When a conflict between students escalated to a physical level, this teacher looked at all the factors involved, including the classroom space.

This bill calls for “mutual cooperation and respect” concerning interactions with police—and it misses the point.

The latest in culturally aware literature and resources for teachers of all grades.

My mother’s birth certificate, dated 1915 and issued in Brooklyn, New York, gives her name as Maria. I knew her only as Mary, the name that appears on her marriage certificate, her social security card and her gravestone. Her sister Philomena was so determined to get away from her name that she had it changed legally to Phyliss. Their brother Philipo chopped his down to Philip. Their other siblings? Anna became Anne, Elisa morphed into Alice and Cosimo was known to his friends as Pete.