A plan book for social justice educators
Edited By Holly Hardin, Natalia Ortiz, and Carla Shalaby
Every plan book purchase includes a complimentary PDF download of the August and September pages so you can get a head start on planning! Planning to Change the World: A Plan Book […]
the debate over charter schools
Edited By Leigh Dingerson, Barbara Miner, Bob Peterson, Stephanie Walters
Keeping the Promise? examines one of the most complex reforms in education: charter schools. This wide-ranging and thought-provoking collection of essays examines the charter school movement’s founding visions, on-the-ground realities, […]
Finding purpose, balance, and hope during your first years in the classroom
Edited by Linda Christensen, Stan Karp, Bob Peterson, and Moé Yonamine
Newly revised and expanded third edition! This expanded third edition of The New Teacher Book grew out of Rethinking Schools workshops with early career teachers. It offers practical guidance on […]
Re-imagining the Language Arts Classroom
Authored By Linda Christensen
Teaching for Joy and Justice is the sequel to Linda Christensen’s bestselling Reading, Writing, and Rising Up. Christensen is recognized as one of the country’s finest teachers. Through stories, Christensen demonstrates […]
Black students' minds and bodies are under attack. We're fighting back.
Edited by Dyan Watson, Jesse Hagopian, and Wayne Au
Teaching for Black Lives grows directly out of the movement for Black lives. We recognize that anti-Black racism constructs Black people, and Blackness generally, as not counting as human life. […]
Teaching Poetry for Social Justice
Edited by Linda Christensen and Dyan Watson
Offering practical lessons about how to teach poetry to build community, understand literature and history, talk back to injustice, and construct stronger literacy skills across content areas and grade levels—from […]
Edited by Annika Butler-Wall, Kim Cosier, Rachel Harper, Jeff Sapp, Jody Sokolower, and Melissa Bollow Tempel
Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality is a collection of inspiring stories about how to integrate feminist and LGBTQ content into curriculum, make it part of a vision for social justice, […]
Views From The Classroom
Edited By Linda Christensen, Stan Karp
Rethinking School Reform puts classrooms and teaching at the center of the debate over how to improve public schools. Drawing on some of the best writing from the quarterly journal […]
Edited by Elizabeth Marshall and Özlem Sensoy
Rethinking Popular Culture and Media begins from the premise that the “popular” is political. Whether it’s Disney and Barbie, or Snapchat and Vine, youth navigate, shape, and repurpose popular culture. […]
Teaching for Equity and Justice
Edited by Bill Bigelow, Brenda Harvey, Stan Karp, and Larry Miller
With more than 180,000 copies in print, the first volume of Rethinking Our Classrooms broke new ground, providing teachers with hands-on ways to promote values of community, justice, and equality […]
Teaching for Equity and Justice
Edited by Wayne Au, Bill Bigelow, and Stan Karp
Since the first edition was published in 1994, Rethinking Our Classrooms has sold over 180,000 copies. This revised and expanded edition includes new essays on: science and environmental education immigration […]
Teaching Social Justice by the Numbers
Edited by Eric Gutstein and Bob Peterson
In this expanded and updated edition of Rethinking Mathematics, more than 50 articles show how to weave social justice issues throughout the mathematics curriculum, as well as how to integrate […]
Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World
Edited by Bill Bigelow and Bob Peterson
This comprehensive 400-page book from Rethinking Schools helps teachers raise critical issues with students in grades 4-12 about the increasing globalization of the world’s economies and infrastructures, and the many […]
Edited By R. Tolteka Cuauhtin, Miguel Zavala, Christine Sleeter, Wayne Au
As part of a growing nationwide movement to bring Ethnic Studies into K-12 classrooms, Rethinking Ethnic Studies brings together many of the leading teachers, activists, and scholars in this movement […]
Edited by Linda Christensen, Mark Hansen, Bob Peterson, Elizabeth Barbian, and Dyan Watson
Rethinking Elementary Education collects the finest writing about elementary school life and learning from 25 years of Rethinking Schools magazine. The articles in this volume offer practical insights about how […]
The Next 500 Years
Edited by Bill Bigelow and Bob Peterson
Why rethink Christopher Columbus? Because the Columbus myth is a foundation of children’s beliefs about society. Columbus is often a child’s first lesson about encounters between different cultures and races. […]
Welcoming home languages in our classrooms
Edited by Elizabeth Barbian, Grace Gonzales, and Pilar Mejia
Rethinking Bilingual Education is an exciting new collection of articles about bringing students’ home languages into our classrooms. How do we bring social justice curriculum into our bilingual classrooms? How […]