Brian Willoughby

Brian Willoughby has worked as a newspaper journalist and as managing editor at Teaching Tolerance. He currently lives in the Pacific Northwest.


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Suspending Hope In the 2003–2004 academic year, Baltimore City Public Schools recorded 26,000 suspensions. Six years later, that number had dropped below 10,000,...
Lessons of Tolerance One day last spring, our 10-year-old daughter Clara came home sobbing from school. We pieced together the story: While waiting for the bus at the...
Alternative Success There are 73 kids in this school, all booted out of Cincinnati-area public schools for behavior and attitude problems. Some have autism or attention...
BROWN V. BOARD: An American Legacy It is, on its face, a story of separateness. It is the story of two little girls walking through a railroad switchyard in 1950s Topeka, Kan., lunch...
'That's What I Am: I Am a Teacher' Betsy Rogers is the National Teacher of the Year. She teaches elementary school in Leeds, Ala., near Birmingham, where she developed a looping class...
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Mix It Up at Lunch: So What’s Next? It happened everywhere, on campuses large and small, public and private, elementary to secondary, in more than 2,163 schools nationwide—as well as at...
What You’re Doing is Important The week is here. Take a moment to catch your breath. And remember these things: The event will happen. Something may not turn out exactly as you...
What Makes a Mix Model School? You’re likely feeling immersed in Mix It Up by now, having browsed our online offerings, read the blogs and emails, followed things on Facebook and...
How to Seat Students There are so many ways to mix up student seating at lunch that it can be paralyzing to consider them all. Don’t let this be a stumbling block. The...
Getting publicity When it comes to publicizing your Mix It Up at Lunch campaign, think a little bit old school, a little bit new school – and then start thinking...
Mapmaking and Boundary Crossing Some students – and others – may ask, “Why do we need Mix It Up at Lunch Day?” A good way to lead them to their own answers about that is to carry...
Practice your Mix It Up 'elevator speech' So people are starting to ask you, “What’s this Mix It Up at Lunch thing? What is it you’re planning?” This is a time when you definitely need your “...
Are Your Key Players on Board? We’re a little more than a month out from Mix It Up at Lunch Day. What does your core planning group look like? Our most successful schools during...
Five Ways to Build Momentum for Mix Schools are busy places, with lots of things competing for attention. Based on input from hundreds of schools during the past decade of Mix It Up at...
Mix It Up: Choosing a theme Mix It Up at Lunch is a theme in itself. Many schools find that idea enough of a hook to carry off the day, as well as follow-up events after the day...
What do kids get out of Mix? So you’ve decided to Mix It Up at Lunch – either for the first time, or as a returning participant. And you ask yourself, “Why Mix It Up? What do...