Monday, March 4, 2024: The History of Black Music — A Love Supreme Award-winning musicologist and music historian Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr. will discuss his book Who Hears Here? On Black Music, Pasts and Present. A Guggenheim Fellow and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr. is a music historian, pianist, composer, […]
Join Rethinking Schools founding editor Bob Peterson and executive director Cierra Kaler-Jones in conversation with Jonathan Kozol about his newest book, An End to Inequality: Breaking Down the Walls of Apartheid Education in America. In the newest and culminating work of his long career, Kozol argues that it’s well past time to batter down inequities […]
Jesse Hagopian, Teaching for Black Lives co-editor and Rethinking Schools editor, will facilitate an informational session for educators who are interested in forming a Teaching for Black Lives study group in the 2024–2025 school year. Participants will hear from previous and current study group coordinators about their experience and impact. The session will include time […]
Monday, April 8, 2024: Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation Africana studies professor Julius B. Fleming Jr. in conversation with educator Jessica Rucker, will discuss the role of Black theater in the Black Freedom Struggle and the concept of “Black patience.” They will discuss: Black theater as a space in which Black people […]
Monday, May 6, 2024: Reparations and Climate Justice Philosophy professor Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò will discuss his book Reconsidering Reparations which takes on reparations and distributive justice with wide implications for views of justice, racism, the legacy of colonialism, and climate change policy. Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò is associate professor of philosophy at Georgetown University. Táíwò’s theoretical work draws liberally from […]
Join Rethinking Schools for a webinar on the spring issue of Rethinking Schools, Teach Palestine. Panelists will offer stories, examples, and concrete strategies for teaching truthfully and critically about Palestine-Israel. At a time when the attack on social justice teaching has dramatically expanded as part of the crackdown on opposition to U.S. aid to Israel, it […]
It’s time to take action. . . . again. For the past three summers, teachers rallied across the country to speak out against anti-history education bills and to make public their pledge to teach the truth. The teacher-led rallies received national media attention, providing a valuable counter narrative to the oversized coverage of the well-funded […]
Once again, our friends at Climate Generation are offering their online “Summer Institute for Climate Education,” during the week of July 15–19. One of the presenters will be teacher extraordinaire and Rethinking Schools writer Suzanna Kassouf. Suzanna will lead a workshop based on the “Imagining the Future” role play she describes in her Rethinking Schools article, “‘We Cannot Create What We Cannot […]
Join Rethinking Schools for a webinar on our newest book, Transgender Justice in Schools. 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, challenge, inspire — and save lives. During this webinar, three of the book’s authors […]
Join D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice (DCAESJ) for the third annual Social Justice Curriculum Fair on Saturday, August 17, 2024 from 8:45AM–12:15PM in person at Inspired Teaching Demonstration PCS (200 Douglas Street NE). This fair is an opportunity for D.C. area educators to connect in person while exploring curriculum aligned with various social justice […]
On Monday, September 16, 2024, historian Kellie Carter Jackson will discuss We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance with Teaching for Black Lives co-editor Jesse Hagopian and Rethinking Schools executive director Cierra Kaler-Jones. Carter reframes the past and present of Black resistance — both nonviolent and violent — to white supremacy. This event is part of the Teach the Black […]
Did you know that the biggest Civil Rights Movement demonstration of the 1960s happened in New York City? Did you know that at the same time people were pressing for desegregation in Montgomery and Birmingham, they were doing so in Los Angeles, Milwaukee, and Boston? Scholar Brian Jones, in conversation with Teaching for Black Lives co-editor Jesse Hagopian, […]
