It’s a Beautiful Day in Ms. Rachel’s Neighborhood
Rethinking Schools editor Larry Miller discovers Ms. Rachel and her courageous stance on Gaza through engagement with his granddaughter.
Early Childhood
Transgender Justice in Schools Wins Multiple Book Awards
Rethinking Schools is thrilled to announce Transgender Justice in Schools, co-edited by Linda Christensen and Ty Marshall, has been awarded a 2024 Foreword INDIES Silver Book of the Year Award, […]
Traditional Ecological Knowledge in the Preschool Classroom: An Interview with Nichole Efird
Tennessee teacher Jen Sauer interviews Cherokee teacher Nichole Efird about how to bring Indigenous culture and knowledge into the preschool classroom.
Can a 4-Year-Old Know Her Gender Identity? Yes.
“Do you feel like a boy?” “No, mom. I’m a girl.” My daughter’s statement could not have been more direct, honest, and clear. In that moment I glimpsed how deeply gender-expansive people feel who they are, no matter what society has labeled them as at birth.
Action Research for Environmental Justice in the Kindergarten Classroom
A kindergarten teacher helps students investigate issues of environmental justice — like access to green space — in their communities.
Planning to Change the World 2025-26
Every plan book purchase includes a complimentary PDF download of the August and September pages so you can get a head start on planning! Planning to Change the World: A Plan Book […]
A Rhythm of Gratitude
We Are Grateful: OtsaliheligaBy Traci SorellIllustrated by Frané LessacCharlesbridge Publishing, 2018 My preschool-age children collect treasures from the ground that end up on our table. Bits of moss, Douglas fir […]
Talking to Young Children About COVID-19
COVID-19 descended upon Seattle, seeping in like a fog first in small ways, then eventually in signals we couldn’t ignore. Stores were empty, hours at our early childhood center were […]
Teaching Voting Rights in the Time of Coronavirus
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the 15th Amendment, which promised “the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or […]
Childhood Is Dying
Iraq’s children have been more gravely affected by the U.S. occupation than any other segment of the population.”
Bonfire of the Disney Princesses
Contrary to their spin machine, Disney’s princesses are far from role models
The Scripted Prescription
Testing mania reaches the pre-K classroom. It saddened me to think that my daughter’s first impression of school was based on taking a test and failing it.”
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Playing with Gender
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What About Play?
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Welcoming Kalenna
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Head Start or Head Backwards?
Republicans deliberately undermining Head Start.
Black is Beautiful
A kindergarten teacher uses images, literature, poetry, and collages — as well as her own history — to challenge students’ implicit bias and preconceived notions surrounding the color black and to teach the lesson that Black is beautiful.
Prizes as Curriculum
A paraprofessional exposes the harm of substituting compliance for content at a school for special needs students.
Celebrating Skin Tone
An early elementary school teacher combines a science lesson and poetry to encourage children to celebrate their own skin tone and that of their classmates.
Rethinking Elementary Education
Rethinking Elementary Education collects the finest writing about elementary school life and learning from 25 years of Rethinking Schools magazine. The articles in this volume offer practical insights about how […]
Rethinking Early Childhood Education
Rethinking Early Childhood Education is alive with the conviction that teaching young children involves values and vision. This anthology collects inspiring stories about social justice teaching with young children. Included […]