In a time when populist and anti-democratic movements are gaining influence, schools must empower learners to participate in societal discourse and to be able and willing to engage in democratic opinion and will formation. Within the subject didactics, there is broad consensus on the high importance of complex cross-cutting themes such as education for sustainable development. Students should learn to create, explore, and utilize personal, societal, and political spaces for action. At the same time, subject teaching is faced with new challenges: students often do not acquire the language of instruction, German, as their first language, but in various language acquisition contexts. The practice of inclusive subject teaching raises the demands on school and instructional development.