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After the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel eloquently stated “never again.” Since he first uttered this compelling sentiment, genocides have erupted across the world—from Guatemala to Cambodia. April was chosen as Genocide Prevention Month since the Holocaust, Rwandan, Bosnian, Armenian and Cambodian genocides are commemorated during this time. The commemoration began in April 2009 and combined genocide remembrance with prevention.

Want to do your part to make schools safer? Use National Youth Violence Prevention Week as a starting point for year-round planning.

This important and essential work begins in the classrooms of teachers like you.

Helen Sims, aka the Old Storyteller of Belzoni, Mississippi, encourages us to accept the torch that is being passed to us.

We asked our 25 Teaching Tolerance Advisory Board members what advice they would offer to fellow educators about Black History Month. Each of these experienced educators offers a wealth of expertise, especially when it comes to bringing multicultural topics into the classroom.

In this second blog of a two-part series, a high school English teacher in the Dominican Republic explains how her students’ exploration of social injustices materialized in an action project that no one involved will ever forget.