The Ulster Teachers' Union has teamed up with the Northern Ireland Council for Ethnic Minorities to lead the fight against racism in Northern Ireland's schools.
They have produced a guidance leaflet for the union's 6,500 members which was launched today at the UTU annual conference being held in Newcastle, Co Down over the next two days.
The union's President Rosemary Barton said, in the past, the North might have seen issues relating to race as less important than other issues.
But she added that there was evidence this was changing, prompted by a growing number of racially motivated incidents.
