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An Anti-Defamation League video inspires this teacher to help his students imagine—and build—a world in which everyone thrives.

Our colleagues at Not In Our Town weigh in on strategies for confronting bias, intolerance and bullying.

Based on the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Schools, modern-day programs educate and empower students.

When neo-Nazis planned a march on their campus, these educators found a way to push back—even as they let their students lead the way.

School policies that protect LGBT educators pave the way for more honest teacher-student relationships.

The morning of the 10th anniversary of 9/11, I logged in to Facebook as I do most weekend mornings to see the status updates of 200 or so acquaintances. Many had posted links to news articles and patriotic photos or comments about their memory of that day in 2001. I was not prepared, however, to read a blatantly xenophobic post by someone I had gone to high school with. He called for the extermination of Islam and the strategic bombing of all countries in the Middle East.

“I hate Jews.” That was the sentence, uttered coldly and dripping with vile undertones, from the mouth of a sixth-grader that nearly caused me to let a very powerful teachable moment slip through my fingers. Almost.