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As a child I asked my father whether there was someone like Martin Luther King Jr. who had fought for Latino rights. “Yes,” he said, and told me that his name was César Chávez. My father, a former farmworker who had toiled in the agricultural fields from childhood until adulthood, taught me about César Chávez, Dolores Huerta and the farmworker struggle.

My nana is laughing as she tells me one of her favorite childhood stories. As her cheeks lift into a smile, I can see the teenager who boldly told her teacher that threats to visit Nana’s parents about her behavior are ineffective. “You see,” she said, “they don’t speak any English.”

This year our school district launched an iPad initiative for the kindergarten teachers and students at our Title I elementary school.

This toolkit outlines an activity that uses personal reflection, writing and class discussion to address cyberbullying.

“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin?”

If you don’t teach your students about Islamophobia, someone else will. These resources can help you set the record straight about a major religion that’s currently under attack.

The tension between religious refusal laws and LGBTQ rights poses a classic social studies dilemma.

Field trips can be a great opportunity to take critical literacy to a new level. This toolkit will help you prepare your students to take on social justice issues on trips.

This professional development activity gives ideas for developing narrative empathy: using the power of story to step into another person’s shoes in the name of justice.