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Story Corner - Natalie gains a new friend that she almost missed out on.

We must teach conflict resolution, empathy and individual responsibility to students as deliberately as we teach math and science. Schools will not get better until we do.

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

Kids who don’t “get it” may need a new approach, not slower teaching.

Today, I got a laptop. Not for me. For Aeesha. Let me flash back to about six weeks ago. A team meeting took place around a table in the science classroom, completing the annual discussion about Aeesha’s Individualized Education Plan (IEP). In eighth grade, Aeesha still struggles with basic mathematics, with written expression skills and with decoding text. In many ways, she is an elementary school student trapped in a middle school student’s adolescent body.

The application window for the 2016 Teaching Tolerance Award for Excellence in Teaching is open! Read how this award has impacted Darnell Fine, a 2012 awardee.

What a wonderful kind of day—to incorporate Arthur into your curriculum.

As the school year draws to a close, the SPLC salutes just a few of the students this year who fought the good fight, challenging homophobia and gender discrimination in their schools. If it’s true that young people are our future, the future is looking pretty diverse, free and fabulous. We hope you are as inspired to read about them as we at the SPLC have been to work with them.

A third-grade teacher shares how she uses diverse picture books to surround her students with mirrors and windows—and to combat implicit biases.