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This new-educator mentor discusses how mentoring can expand beginning teachers’ critical lens toward advocacy for students and their professional agency in rerouting the school-to-prison pipeline.

This educator reflects on a blog she wrote for Teaching Tolerance in 2014—and finds herself confronting the same misperceptions from others about her culture and worldview.

A war on obesity is raging. Everyone from Jillian Michaels to Michelle Obama is calling for all Americans to lose the fat. But as doctors spend millions of dollars on fat-shaming billboards targeting children and studies proving that dieting simply doesn’t work, one might ask where does encouragement end and bullying begin?

An African American art form offers new lessons in harmony.

Ramadan begins today. Discuss this Muslim holy month with students—and take a step toward countering Islamophobia.

The latest in culturally aware literature and resources for teachers of all grades.

How students can convert the shameful history of sundown towns in the United States into a rich opportunity for setting the record straight.

Toni Giarnese found inspiration in her job thanks to a disabled boy who looked a lot like a knight in shining armor.

In recent weeks, our country has been treated to an ugly reflection of itself. The controversy over the Islamic community center in New York City has been followed by a spate of anti-Muslim acts. They include the stabbing of a Muslim cabbie, attempted arson at a mosque in Tennessee and teens harassing Muslims at worship in upstate New York.

Language lessons create common ground in a Detroit elementary school.