Building the School-to-Abolition Pipeline
A high school teacher explains how restorative justice helps students envision a different model of justice and community at school.
High School
“I Really Felt Like I Was Using My Writing for Good”
Christensen details strategies to encourage students to write essays that matter while they investigate decades of housing discrimination in their neighborhood.
Sweet Stuff
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.
Six Ways U.S. History Textbooks Mislead Students About the History Between Central America and the United States
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.
Teaching the Culprits of Climate Chaos
Using his updated climate crisis trial, Bigelow shows how students explore the forces behind climate chaos.
Teaching the Haibun During Times of Chaos and Struggle
Christensen teaches the writing process by encouraging students to celebrate beloved places with the haibun, a Japanese poetic form.
Teaching the Fight for Queer Liberation
Students imagine themselves as LGBTQ+ activists and debate key questions facing organizers through more than 50 years of movement history.
Israeli Apartheid: A Simulation
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.
Teaching Palestine
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 […]
Rethinking Teaching About the USPHS Untreated Syphilis Study at Tuskegee: A Revision that Centers Resistance
A high school science teacher revises her lesson on the USPHS Untreated Syphilis Study at Tuskegee to center resistance.
Green, Blue, Yellow, Red: Mapping Spatial Injustice
Layering maps, a former high school science teacher illustrates spatial injustice in air quality and highway construction.
Environmental Justice Activists Look Like My Students
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.
Simulating Redlining: When “Race Was the Real Currency”
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
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, […]
Debunking False Climate Solutions in Our Classrooms
An environmental justice teacher encourages students to critically examine proposed solutions to climate change.
For Students to Understand Today’s Violence in Palestine-Israel, We Need to Teach About Zionism and the British Empire
Bigelow details a new mixer lesson about the roots of Zionism in the classroom — and its relevance for today’s crisis.
Grounding in Our Roots: Preserving Family History Through Migration Narratives
A high school language arts teacher writes about the power of students interviewing family and friends to develop migration narratives.
Nurturing a Rainbow of Resistance to Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws
Christensen describes teaching high school students about new anti-LGBTQ+ laws — and the growing resistance to them.
Existing Outside of the Binary in the Classroom
A nonbinary educator reflects on the difficulty and the power of being out in school.
Honoring Juneteenth
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 […]
Teaching the Truth About National Parks
An environmental justice teacher engages students in an examination of the problematic history of national parks.
Why I Teach Look for Me in the Whirlwind
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.
The Story of the Chicago Young Lords for Teachers
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.
No, Anti-Zionism Is Not Antisemitism
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.
Five Ways Textbooks Lie About Reconstruction
The Zinn Education Project’s Mimi Eisen critiques commonly used U.S. history textbooks’ coverage of Reconstruction.