Join Teaching Palestine: Lessons, Stories, Voices co-editors to launch the new Rethinking Schools book. 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 […]
Historian Mia Bay and Teaching for Black Lives co-editor Jesse Hagopian will discuss Bay’s book, Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance, which explores racial restrictions on transportation and resistance to the injustice.
This fair is an opportunity for D.C. area educators to connect in person while exploring curriculum aligned with various social justice themes. Coordinated in partnership with DCAESJ working groups, this fair will feature classroom resources from the Zinn Education Project and Social Justice Books, and is designed for pre-K-12 educators. There will also be opportunities to network with […]
On Monday, August 25, author and educator Clint Smith, in conversation with Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian and educator and Prentiss Charney Fellow Jessica Rucker, will discuss the new young readers edition of How the Word Is Passed: Remembering Slavery and How It Shaped America, which was adapted by Sonja Cherry-Paul.
Scholar Eve L. Ewing, in conversation with Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian and Rethinking Schools executive director Cierra Kaler-Jones, will discuss her book, Original Sins: The (Mis)Education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism, an examination of how the U.S. school system helps maintain racial inequality and social hierarchies.
“Rethinking Our Classrooms, Organizing for Better Schools” is the theme for the 18th Annual Northwest Teaching for Social Justice Conference to be held at Parkrose High School in Portland, Oregon. There will be speakers, workshops, a resources fair, and more. Registration coming soon
Historian Jeanne Theoharis will return to discuss her book, King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South, with Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian. This class is part two to a March 2025 Teach the Black Freedom Struggle class with Theoharis where she discussed the book just prior to its release. Given the extent of […]
On Monday, November 10, scholar Joshua Clark Davis, in conversation with Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian, will discuss his new book Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back, an examination of the civil rights struggle through its work against police violence — and a prehistory of both the Black Lives […]
Join educators on Saturday, January 24, 2026 for a powerful keynote by Jessica A. Rucker, a doctoral student in the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland whose scholarship focuses on Black radicalisms. Be in community with educators and others to engage in TWELVE interactive workshops, that center Black joy, student voice, and the Black Lives […]
Monday, January 26: Black History Is for Everyone Educator Brian Jones, in conversation with Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian, will discuss his latest book Black History Is for Everyone, a look at how the study of Black history challenges our understanding of race, nation, and the stories we tell about who we are.
Monday, February 2: I’ll Make Me a World: The 100-Year Journey of Black History Month Historian Jarvis Givens joins Rethinking Schools executive director Cierra Kaler-Jones and editor Jesse Hagopian to discuss his latest book, I’ll Make Me a World: The 100-Year Journey of Black History Month. Drawing on archival research, personal stories involving family and […]
Join Rethinking Schools, Penguin Random House, Defending the Early Years, and Black Lives Matter at School for a virtual launch and celebration of Main Street: A Community Story About Redlining by Britt Hawthorne and Tiffany Jewell. The webinar will feature a conversation with the authors, followed by a panel of early childhood and elementary educators […]
