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As I head back to the classroom, I think about the last school year. In the second-to-last week of school, my fifth-grade classroom was 90 degrees, with no air conditioning. My students were sitting together, helping each other, laughing, struggling and having fun. At the beginning of the year, they were unsure of each other. They smiled politely but kept to themselves or the friends they knew and never asked for help. So what had changed?

"Hack jams" encourage students to question reality, challenge texts and authors, and practice becoming agents of change in the world.

Maya Angelou was an activist up until the very end of her life: visible, accessible, present to the people to whom her work and her message of hope meant the most.

My knee injury was neither serious nor permanent, but it was enough to put me on crutches and earn me a key to the elevator.

Some students struggle to see gender stereotypes, but telling personal stories can open their eyes.

Thanks to online spaces, bullying has never been easier. Here’s how you can intervene.

The state of the union when the Brown decision came down.

Understanding political divides can help students learn to bridge them.

How do your students learn how to know? And what does your teaching look like in the face of a devaluing of shared truth, deepening political polarization and the mainstreaming of intolerance?