Teach the Fossil Fuel Industry — Our Students’ Enemy
By Bill Bigelow This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. A while back, I […]
Curriculum
Black Lives Matter At School National Week of Action Feb. 4 – 8, 2019
We call on educators to make commitments to teach social justice, anti-racist curriculum and foster student conversations about the Black Lives Matter movement. We also call on educators to grow […]
Linda Christensen on the Second Edition of Reading, Writing, and Rising Up, What Role the Classroom Played in Revision, and What Needs to Change in How We Teach
Author and educator Linda Christensen talks about the highly anticipated second edition of her 2000 book, READING, WRITING, AND RISING UP.
Victory for Mexican American Studies in Arizona: An Interview with Curtis Acosta
In 2010, state lawmakers in Arizona passed legislation that banned courses that “promote resentment toward a race or class of people.” But the legislation was, in reality, specifically targeting a […]
Hoodies Up! Black Lives Matter!
By Moé Yonamine “I don’t understand why people talk about him like he’s a criminal. He was a 17 year-old kid,” Kiana said. Kiana was one of more than 100 […]
Help Rethinking Schools Abolish Columbus Day
Dear Rethinking Schools friends, Christopher Columbus was the first European to send enslaved people from the Americas to Europe, as well as the first to promote the enslavement of Africans […]
Cuentos del corazón (Stories from the Heart): Fall Issue
Letter from the Editors Nothing reveals our attitudes about our students more clearly than the stance we take toward their home languages. Do we advocate for students’ right to education […]
Time to Abolish Columbus Day
By Bill Bigelow Once again this year many schools will pause to commemorate Christopher Columbus. Given everything we know about who Columbus was and what he launched in the Americas, […]
Rhythm and Resistance: Teaching Poetry for Social Justice
Our new book, Rhythm and Resistance edited by Linda Christensen and Dyan Watson, offers practical lessons about how to teach poetry to build community, understand literature and history, talk back to injustice, […]
“The Library That Target Built” and other articles from our Summer Issue
“The Library that Target Built,” by teacher-librarian Rachel Cloues, reveals what happened when Target donated a library “makeover” to a San Francisco elementary school: the district’s anti-branding policy wasn’t enough to […]
Educating the Gates Foundation
June 26, Rethinking Schools editor Wayne Au spoke at a Seattle rally protesting the role of the Gates Foundation in public education: “Educating the Gates Foundation.” The rally was sponsored […]
Two Rethinking Schools Books Earn Awards
We have wonderful news. Two of our recent books earned Honor Awards from Skipping Stones magazine–a journal that has been celebrating exceptional multicultural children’s literature and professional education resources for over 26 […]
“What the Tour Guide Didn’t Tell Me” and other resources for teaching about Asian Pacific Islander History
We’re nearing the end of Asian Pacific American Heritage month, but don’t let the teaching of Asian Pacific Islander history and perspectives be limited to just one month. It’s good that we […]
Post-patriarchy?
by Jody Sokolower, managing editor of Rethinking Schools and lead editor for Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality I came of age in the late 60s, when abortion was illegal, women were […]
What does it take to publish a book?
by Jody Sokolower We’re in the middle of a crowdfunding campaign to raise money to publish Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality. Our goal is $20,000 and we still have about […]
Links we liked this week: April 20, 2014
We like sharing interesting news, insightful opinions, activist victories, and actionable curriculum via Facebook, Twitter, and of course through our magazine and books. We thought why not collect some of […]
Beyond Bully Prevention
by Jody Sokolower One of the pleasures of working on Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality has been the discussions among the editorial committee as we have outlined the book, reviewed […]
Queering Our Schools: Spring issue of Rethinking Schools
by Jody Sokolower, managing editor and lead editor for Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality The cover theme of our spring issue of Rethinking Schools is “Queering Our Schools,” and the thought-provoking and […]
My Friend Andy, a Gay Teacher
by Melissa Bollow Tempel UPDATE: A short time after I posted this at Huffington Post, I received a lengthy email from a teacher who was clearly upset about my message. […]
Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality: Join our campaign!
by Jody Sokolower How do you respond when a child asks, “Can a girl turn into a boy?” in the middle of circle time? What if your daughter brings home […]
Launching a Social Justice Writing Group
by Grace Cornell Gonzales Last year, during a Teachers 4 Social Justice salon in San Francisco, I read Henry Giroux’s “Teachers as Transformative Intellectuals” for the first time. It’s a […]
Rethinking Multicultural Education: Teaching for Racial and Cultural Justice
by Wayne Au This post is an excerpt from the introduction to our new and expanded 2nd edition of Rethinking Multicultural Education: Teaching for Racial and Cultural Justice published just last […]
A Lesson Plan for Strikebreaking Substitute Teachers
A Lesson Plan for Strikebreaking Substitute Teachers By Russ Peterson Editor’s Note: Portland, Oregon language arts teacher Russ Peterson sent this lesson plan to colleagues, who are preparing to strike […]
Resources for Teaching About Love
It’s Valentine’s Day–a day filled with joy and surprises, but also angst and disappointments–and sometimes all of the above! Let’s help children climb out of the emotionally wrought Valentine’s Day […]
What’s wrong with the Common Core: Winter issue is out
by Jody Sokolower Hailed as the next great reform, the Common Core State Standards are being implemented at breakneck speed in districts across the United States. But behind the spin, […]