Planning to Change the World: A Plan Book for Social Justice Educators is a lesson planning book for educators who believe their students can, will, and already do change the world. This resource is designed to help teachers translate […]
Students from two different high schools in Portland, Oregon organize a Student Voices for Climate Justice Summit.
Students write “unbound” essays about topics that impact their lives.
Science Teaching for Social Justice helps students and educators dig into science as a tool of oppression and means of liberation.
Students write narratives on kindness and solidarity to speak back to despair.
Yonamine describes how learning about young people fighting against climate change energized her summer school students.
Christensen uses abecedarian poetry to excavate student memories and bring their lives into the classroom.
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, […]
A high school teacher explains how restorative justice helps students envision a different model of justice and community at school.
Christensen details strategies to encourage students to write essays that matter while they investigate decades of housing discrimination in their neighborhood.
Through a trial role play in a high school science class, students explore who — or what — is to blame for the rise of epidemics related to increased sugar consumption.
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.