This article offers the concept of critical professional praxis as a framework for naming and addressing difference-neutral practices in education (an approach that does not consider the effects of power and privilege associated with social differences in teachers' beliefs, ideas, and actions). Critical professional praxis is using both formal and…

An ally, as defined by dictionary.com, is "a person, group, or nation that is associated with others for some common cause or purpose." Therefore, allies are people whose orientation is "outside" of the oppressed group. An ally is often a person who recognizes her privileges and works in alliance with members of oppressed…

Recounts how the students and faculty at the University of Wyoming responded to the murder of a gay student. Offers postcrisis critique about the elements of the Crisis Intervention Team's response that were identified as helpful: involvement of the college president, flexibility and responsiveness of the study activities staff, discussion forums…