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This educator discusses the pedagogical frameworks and the educational tools for challenging common misconceptions about the African continent.

By engaging in creative processes alongside our students, we create spaces where it is safe to take risks and grow.

A recent news segment offers a great lesson in privilege and the dangerous social function of humor based on identity.

My day begins supervising fourth-grade recess. It’s a nice way to ease into being in the school building, where I often cringe at how we insist that small children stay tethered to their chairs for so many hours in a row.

Recently I suspended a seventh-grade boy for publicly calling his former girlfriend a “slut” and a “whore.” Our rules on slurs are clear. But as I learned again, talking about something in class doesn’t always affect student behavior, especially if the unwanted behavior isn’t corrected or condemned outside of the classroom.

In a recent discussion about a history reading, I asked students if they understood the need to think critically about what we read, even if the reading is labeled “historical.”

The face of America is changing.In 40 years, the United States will become a minority-majority nation – a remarkable milestone for a country that already boasts one of the most religiously, ethnically and racially diverse societies in the world.But you wouldn’t know it looking at our nation’s schools. Census and school data tell a very different story.

When students express outrage over the “rape culture” in another country, the teacher brings the discussion closer to home for further exploration.

Anti-LGBT sentiment mars a Mississippi theatrical performance.

Most people want to be kind, but many reject being politically correct. Here are three rules that can help you be both.