How can we create classrooms and schools where discrimination and assumptions about gender and/or sexuality don’t keep us from nurturing every child, parent, and staff member?

Teaching LGBTQ issues in the rural South

A teacher redesigns her curriculum to support a gay student. As the classroom community strengthens, they confront the impact of poverty and geographic isolation.

Queering a study of the criminal justice system

Facing conflict fueled by racism and homophobia at his school, a teacher develops curriculum for the school-to-prison pipeline aimed at building bridges and academic skills.

Former TFA corps members join with parents, students, and veteran teachers to organize a people’s assembly and nationalize efforts against TFA.

A Chicago teacher urges TFA recruits to think twice before they sign up.

A former TFA corps member describes her experiences inside TFA, beginning with the cultlike atmosphere of the training.

When a substitute is insensitive to a fragile student, her classmates look to Thoreau for inspiration about how to respond.

Students probe the BP oil spill

The 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill coincided with my first year of teaching modern world history at a high school in Portland, Oregon.

Kadir Nelson’s acclaimed picture book Mandela portrays Nelson Mandela as an isolated hero, ignoring the movement of which he was an integral part.