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March 10-14 is Brain Awareness Week. Help your students maximize their brain power by adding brain breaks to your bag of tricks.

One after-school programmer reflects on the criminalization of youth.

Invariably, issues are raised in classrooms that bring charged responses from students. How can educators set the stage for safe, respectful dialogue and learning?

A 6-year-old saw something no one else did. Her response taught the community about fairness—and the power of children’s voices.

It was a brisk New England day as I walked out of the community center with a group of Somali Muslim women from my adult English as a Second Language class. My students were laughing and joking, their hijabs blowing in the breeze. We had finished our unit on the New World, drawing connections between Europeans immigrating to America and Somalis immigrating to Lewiston and southern Maine. Suddenly, a local woman shouted, "Terrorists!"

Imani walked down the hall with a paper cup in her hands. She stopped and held up the cup to me. Inside of its paper walls were soil, water, and seeds—all those humble and elemental things that build a third-grader's scientific knowledge. Imani was growing cabbage.

Teaching Tolerance interim director Jennifer Holladay wants TT to serve you better.