Search

A first-year teacher uses journalism exercises—lessons learned from a favorite teacher—to build classroom unity and trust.

The day after Valentine’s Day 2008, I watched my 1st period students file into the room. They were uncharacteristically quiet. When the bell rang, they all looked at me, waiting to hear how I might make sense of the previous night’s tragedy when Steven Philip Kazmierczak opened fire in Cole Hall on Northern Illinois University’s campus, shooting 21 people and killing five.

What does a commitment to pluralism look like when working with children under five?

A middle school teacher shares her innovative approach to using a bilingual multicultural resource.

Want to teach students about ability and access? Try this lesson.

Dealing with outbreaks of lice or bedbugs in the classroom presents a prime opportunity for elementary school educators to examine implicit bias.

Use these ideas to include the religious and nonreligious diversity of students’ home lives in your practice.

The language that educators use to address students can maintain and reinforce class structures and classist attitudes. The antidote? Anti-classist language.

As Earth Day approaches, it’s a good time to think about how you approach issues of identity and diversity when it comes to the environment—regardless of the subject you teach. Here’s how one science teacher did it.