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Have you ever been the only (fill in category) person in the room? Race, class, gender, age, body type, marital status—any number of identifiers can place us outside the norm, depending on the room. Otherness is a specific experience, especially for those who don’t live it every day. A couple of my students unwittingly placed themselves squarely into the role of “other” in an assignment outside our classroom, and I suspect learned a more powerful lesson than I ever could have taught them in class. The assignment was to find, attend and write an article covering an event. When two students proposed attending a senior citizen fundraising fashion show on the other side of town, I immediately approved the idea.

Prepare yourself to discuss race, racism and other difficult topics with students.

Explorations of faiths at school.

The editor of Teaching Tolerance writes on critics' objections to the magazine's treatment of gay and lesbian issues

Four ways to include religiously unaffiliated students in classroom content about religion.

Geography offers students a new perspective on our changing world.