Chicago’s Peace Warriors
A group of students from Chicago’s North Lawndale College Preparatory High were in the middle of a weeklong summer training to become Peace Warriors—peer nonviolence leaders. Suddenly, a sophomore named […]
A group of students from Chicago’s North Lawndale College Preparatory High were in the middle of a weeklong summer training to become Peace Warriors—peer nonviolence leaders. Suddenly, a sophomore named […]
Several years ago, I taught a unit on power in my 9th-grade social studies classes at Berkeley High School in California’s Bay Area. It’s a diverse school—rich folks from the […]
Haniyah wrote this article as a 17-year-old participant in Project WHAT! a program of Community Works West, based in Berkeley, Calif. The young people in Project WHAT! all have family […]
A master teacher faces a classroom revolt. She realizes that, no matter how imminent the high-stakes test, stopping the school-to-prison pipeline begins in the classroom with student-centered, meaningful curriculum.
“Every man in my family has been locked up. Most days I feel like it doesn’t matter what I do, how hard I try—that’s my fate, too.”—11th-grade African American student, […]
Student poetry about what raised me is woven into graphic art.
Video resources for the classroom, plus links to activist websites.
For those of us working with immigrant populations, we have in our students living examples that we can use to bring the immigration issue to the forefront and teach all of our students.
Textbooks
Oregon students and teachers learn life lessons by participating in the ‘Theater of the Oppressed’.
None of my schools issued uniforms. What I did wear was a uniform in my head which kept me in line, out of trouble. It was a suit which had […]
A veteran teacher laments the trend toward mandated curriculum and argues that teachers should choose materials that address students’ lives and social issues.
Linda Christensen gets students to write critically about clothes, class, and consumption.
Teacher and students discover that even critically acclaimed literature can disenfranchise as well as empower.
Eighth graders finally get what they ask for: an algebra lesson for the real world.”
Latinos dance, they sing, they happily play baseball. And what great food!
One school’s campaign against put-downs.
8th-grade algebra meets rising gas prices and peak oil.
Suggestions from a 5th-grade teacher on bringing the War in Iraq into the curriculum.
Encouraging prospective teachers to examine their cultural heritage.
Building classroom relationships through poetry.
Helping kids who’ve grown up in the truck culture” examine climate change.
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If we ignore race and money inequities, small school reform won’t help anything meaningful take root.
Teachers can help students express values both in and outside of the classroom.
A first-year teacher’s naivety has repercussions.