Edited by Bill Bigelow, Jesse Hagopian, Suzanna Kassouf, Adam Sanchez, and Samia Shoman
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 […]
Jody Sokolower
Drawing on his experience growing up in a refugee camp in the West Bank and his work with youth, Abbas explores connections that bring Palestine to life for students in the United States.
Bill Bigelow
Bigelow details a new mixer lesson about the roots of Zionism in the classroom — and its relevance for today’s crisis.
Nadine Foty
Weaving her own experiences with reviews of Palestinian picture books, Foty shares books as resistance to the systematic exclusion of Palestine in the curriculum.
Our thoughts on essential resources for teaching about Palestine.
The Editors of Rethinking Schools
“They are targeting our children. They know our children are the future of Palestine,” a mother and community activist told Rethinking Schools editor Jody Sokolower. In this Palestinian woman’s East […]
Members of the Oakland Education Association for Palestine Group
Educators in Oakland share the dramatic story of what happened when they organized a teach-in for Palestine.
Bill Bigelow
Bigelow describes a new lesson on the roots of the violence in Palestine — and argues that history shows that anti-Zionism is not automatically antisemitism.
Nina Shoman-Dajani
A Palestinian American mother describes the alienation that she felt in school, and how she draws on her experiences to imagine the schooling she wants for her children.
Shannon Paaske
A UTLA organizer details the emergence of LA Educators for Justice in Palestine and the organizing that led to the second largest teacher union in the country to call for divestment from companies and bonds associated with Israel’s military actions in Gaza.
Suzanna Kassouf
A high school teacher and co-editor of Teaching Palestine details a classroom simulation revealing some of the inequities Palestinians face throughout Israel and the Occupied Territories.
Katharine Davies Samway
It’s difficult to find accurate books on Palestine for young readers. A former teacher educator describes resources for K-8 students, including picture books, nonfiction, fiction, and poetry.
Adam Sanchez
Sanchez describes how pro-Israel activists are bringing the war on teaching truth into blue cities like Philadelphia.
Samia Shoman
A social studies teacher uses conflicting narratives to engage students in studying the history of Palestine/Israel, focusing on the events of 1948.
Linda Christensen
In this excerpt from Teaching Palestine: Lessons, Stories, Voices, Christensen offers teaching ideas for several poems in the book.
Hannah Halpern
A former classroom teacher describes a series of workshops she helped put together for Jewish families interested in learning about Palestine.
Marcy Winograd and Rick Chertoff
Winograd and Chertoff expose the Echoes & Reflections curriculum — produced by the Anti-Defamation League, Yad Vashem, and the Shoah Foundation — for its pro-Israel indoctrination and offer an alternative vision for how to teach about the Holocaust.
Jesse Hagopian
Hagopian connects the attacks in the United States on teaching about race and gender to Israel’s attacks on children, schools, and historical memory in Palestine.
Check out these valuable resources, reviewed by Rethinking Schools editors and Teaching for Change colleagues.
Ken Gadbow
U.S. students talk directly with Palestinian youth and learn what it is like to live in a war zone.
Check out these valuable resources, reviewed by Rethinking Schools editors and Teaching for Change colleagues.
the editors of Rethinking Schools
What makes public education so dangerous is that it is grounded in hope. As the editors of our forthcoming Teaching Palestine: Lessons, Stories, Voices write, “one of the wonderful things […]
the editors of Rethinking Schools
As this issue of Rethinking Schools went online, Israel and Hamas reached the first stage of a ceasefire agreement. Although it is still unclear whether this ceasefire will last beyond the first […]
Check out these valuable resources, reviewed by Rethinking Schools editors and Teaching for Change colleagues.
