Rethinking Schools is honored to announce that Teaching Palestine: Lessons, Stories, Voices was named a 2025 Skipping Stones Book Award recipient.
Palestine has long been one of the great silences in the official curriculum. Teaching Palestine: Lessons, Stories, Voices provides educators with powerful tools to uncover the history and current context of Palestine-Israel in the classroom — poetry, personal narratives, interviews, role plays, critical reading and writing activities, and more. Teaching Palestine offers a defense of Palestinian humanity centering Palestinian lives, uplifting and celebrating Palestinians’ struggle for justice, and critiquing racism and inequality.
“As Israel starves the population of Gaza in its genocidal campaign, it is more urgent than ever that young people learn about Palestine. We are grateful that our book Teaching Palestine has been recognized by the venerable children’s publication Skipping Stones for an award,” said editors Bill Bigelow, Jesse Hagopian, Suzanna Kassouf, Adam Sanchez, and Samia Shoman.
Skipping Stones awarded 25 books in three categories: Multicultural, Nature, and Teaching Resources, as their 2025 Award Winners. Skipping Stones said, “These picture books, chapter books, novels and nonfiction works promote an understanding of cultures, cultivate cooperation, and/or encourage a deeper awareness of nature, ecology, and diversity. They foster respect for multiple viewpoints and closer relationships within human societies. The honored titles offer various perspectives, help us understand our diverse cultures and their histories, and how we overcome challenging situations. Hearty congratulations to the creators of these timely books!”