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If you are the kind of educator who builds a safe and open classroom culture and teaches with a compassionate heart, students will come to you. They will share their secrets. The culture you create in the classroom can often serve as an invitation for students to seek solace and advice outside of class. We have all faced the blessings (and burdens) of our students’ trust. A new study out of Northwestern University (where I teach) reminds us that we must be prepared for our students’ stories to come tumbling out.

The rhetoric used by this summer’s Olympic media has given educators many rich examples to introduce students to intersectionality.

A new directive on transgender students, issued today by the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice, applies to all public schools.

United Airlines made a major misstep this weekend, one that may be familiar to school administrators.