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This TT staffer reflects on the incessant violence in our country as an educator and a mother.

n. pl. Children’s dictionaries have the power to shape how kids see the world. Be sure yours promotes tolerance.

What can we say to our kids after a week like this one?

Institutional racism can be hard to spot. Try our strategies for sniffing it out.

In her constant search for strategies for students, this teacher found that basket weaving helped her students improve focus and concentration.

Writing poems can help students address difficult issues and become agents for social change.

As new generations come along, we hope the old beliefs mired in hate and separation will die out. The lines that once separated us continue to fade. We have evidence. Our society is more accepting now than it was decades ago of multiracial relationships, multiracial families and multiracial children. Blogger Pamela Cytrynbaum says the new generation is “rejecting the color lines” that once constrained them. The New York Times writer Susan Saulny poignantly describes the younger generation as having a “more fluid sense of identity.”

Mindfulness a not only a great tool to help students focus, but it also helps educators to be more culturally responsive.

A trip to Haiti gives Joseph a new perspective on his identity and his adoption.