Ayala and Hertzler-McCain examine the ways 10 popular U.S. history textbooks ignore the U.S. government’s role in destabilizing Central America, causing waves of immigration to the United States.
Using his updated climate crisis trial, Bigelow shows how students explore the forces behind climate chaos.
Christensen teaches the writing process by encouraging students to celebrate beloved places with the haibun, a Japanese poetic form.
Students imagine themselves as LGBTQ+ activists and debate key questions facing organizers through more than 50 years of movement history.
A high school teacher and co-editor of Teaching Palestine details a classroom simulation revealing some of the inequities Palestinians face throughout Israel and the Occupied Territories.
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 […]
A high school science teacher revises her lesson on the USPHS Untreated Syphilis Study at Tuskegee to center resistance.
Layering maps, a former high school science teacher illustrates spatial injustice in air quality and highway construction.
High school students envision alternative uses for a planned freight distribution warehouse near their school — and challenge their own conceptions of environmental activists in the process.
A high school social studies teacher describes a classroom simulation where students experience the effects of decades of racist federal housing policies.
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
