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, […]
An environmental justice teacher encourages students to critically examine proposed solutions to climate change.
Bigelow details a new mixer lesson about the roots of Zionism in the classroom — and its relevance for today’s crisis.
A high school language arts teacher writes about the power of students interviewing family and friends to develop migration narratives.
Christensen describes teaching high school students about new anti-LGBTQ+ laws — and the growing resistance to them.
A nonbinary educator reflects on the difficulty and the power of being out in school.
Juneteenth — June 19th — also known as Emancipation Day — is one of the commemorations of Black people seizing their freedom in the United States. Below is a list of resources […]
An environmental justice teacher engages students in an examination of the problematic history of national parks.
A review of Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st-Century Revolutions edited by déqui kioni- sadiki and Matt Meyer.
A Chicago educator discusses the creation of a new curriculum on the Young Lords, one of the most imaginative and effective organizations of the 1960s.
Bigelow describes a new lesson on the roots of the violence in Palestine — and argues that history shows that anti-Zionism is not automatically antisemitism.
The Zinn Education Project’s Mimi Eisen critiques commonly used U.S. history textbooks’ coverage of Reconstruction.
Bigelow discusses a recent episode of the NPR podcast Code Switch focused on student organized climate victory in Baltimore.
A high school English teacher describes how she encouraged students to disrupt and speak out against rape culture while reading the novel Speak.
A review of Breaking the War Habit by Seth Kershner, Scott Harding, and Charles Howlett
Eisen and Wolfe-Rocca critique textbook timelines and introduce the new Zinn Education Project Climate Justice Timeline.
A review of Finding Melody Sullivan by Alice Rothchild.
Drawing inspiration from the 1972 National Black Political Convention in Gary, Indiana, New Jersey students and teachers organize a convention to discuss issues facing Black communities today.
A high school social studies teacher describes his mixer lesson in which students learn about the radical Ida B. Wells by taking on roles from various times in her life.
Christensen has students reimagine literature and their own stories to talk back to and disrupt injustice — and build solidarity.
A high school teacher analyzes the biases in financial literacy curricula and shares how he teaches about alternative economic systems and powerful labor and social movements instead.
A high school teacher has students problematize the conditions of their school to learn about funding disparities and the disastrous effects of district debt.
A high school social studies teacher describes a lesson that uses improvisations, historical fiction, and found poems to help students appreciate the first era of Black power: Reconstruction.
A special education teacher tackles fatphobia in our schools head-on, pointing out how we fall far short in our efforts to rid it from the classroom and how fundamentally detrimental fatphobia is to teaching and learning.
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.
