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This teacher looks forward to a time when teachers have the freedom to be role models for their students.

Some people argue “gay-friendly” schools offer needless segregation. Others say they’re the only chance some kids have to make it.

Gay-straight alliances are taking hold in middle schools, where homophobia and anti-gay harassment may be the most rampant.

Kudos to the U.S. Department of Education for making such a strong case in this week's Dear Colleague Letter that bullying is a matter of civil rights. The DOE rightly reframed the issue of bullying in schools as one of institutional responsibility—one that can get schools into serious legal trouble if ignored. Among other things, the letter says “some student misconduct that falls under a school’s anti-bullying policy also may trigger responsibilities under one or more of the federal antidiscrimination laws.”

PD Café offers professional development activities to complete alone or with colleagues.

Editor’s note: The author of this essay prefers the pronoun they. In a poignant letter to their teenage self, Jey Ehrenhalt—a transgender educator and advocate—recalls jarring and painful experiences of their youth and describes how many schools urgently need to become more welcoming and supportive places for transgender students.

A weekly sampling of articles, blogs and reports relevant to TT educators.

This toolkit reminds history and government teachers that they can—and should—teach with confidence about religious freedom and how it can come into conflict with other rights.