Transgender Justice in Schools provides inspirational stories from trans students and educators and resources for teachers, students, and parents seeking to build communities where everyone flourishes. This book will educate, […]
A high school teacher navigates the tensions that arise in conversations with students about the Day of Silence, and how to bridge divides.
It was a letter to the CalSTRS board, demanding that they dump the pension fund’s investments in oil and gas companies. It was signed “From the many young climate justice activists who will continue to be at every one of your meetings until you divest.”
Just as workers are going to need unions, young people need to be organizing as students to make collective demands on the system as well as to meet their needs in an emergency.
Wolfe-Rocca describes her mixer around the “Valve Turners,” a group of climate disobedience activists who put their bodies on the line to stop the harm of pipelines.
An elementary school teacher takes us inside his classroom to see how he builds on his students’ lives and passions to help them create persuasive essays.
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Ninth graders develop science literacy as they become neighborhood environmental experts and activists.
Oregon students and teachers learn life lessons by participating in the ‘Theater of the Oppressed’.
One school’s campaign against put-downs.
Suggestions from a 5th-grade teacher on bringing the War in Iraq into the curriculum.
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Sistas and Brothas United.
Helping kids who’ve grown up in the truck culture” examine climate change.
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A teacher finds that small school reform presents opportunities to teach about tracking and inequality.
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A Rethinking Schools editor explores the environment’s effects on her students’ health in the classroom.
So often, the climate crisis is presented in frightening, threatening terms: rising seas, superstorms, raging wildfires, unlivable temperatures, species extinction, disappearing glaciers, dying coral, climate refugees. These are real. But the paradox is that this dystopian possibility is forcing us to imagine an entirely different kind of society. Schools have a central role to play in devising new alternatives and equipping young people to bring those alternatives to life. This is the work we’ve been assigned.
High-stakes tests have not only failed to achieve racial equality in schooling, they’ve also made it worse for students of color.
“Part of the work of teaching students to read is teaching them to question not only the written word, but also the author,” Christensen writes in her article about teaching students how to confront writers whose stories erase the full truth and misrepresent people and places.
A high school ethnic studies teacher describes how students in the Pacific Island Club used poetry to refocus the narrative surrounding climate justice onto frontline communities.
A high school teacher looks at how a daily activity focusing on the representation of women helped transform her classroom.
As young people across the country join the global movement to mobilize school strikes to demand climate action, one group is starting to think more seriously about how to best support those efforts: their teachers.
A high school English teacher deconstructs “Hero’s Journey” curriculum, shows its patriarchal prejudice, and talks about teaching collective rather than only individual transformation.
