Celebrating Skin Tone
The science and poetry of skin color
An early elementary school teacher combines a science lesson and poetry to encourage children to celebrate their own skin tone and that of their classmates.
Other People’s Lives
An introduction to persona poems, which ask students “to find that place inside themselves that connects with a moment in history, literature, life.”
“I Am a Feather”
“I Am” poems based on “The Delight Song of Tsoai-Talee”
A 5th-grade teacher uses N. Scott Momaday’s brilliant imagery to inspire his students to write metaphoric “I Am” poems.
They Deserve Good Teaching, Too
Social justice in a classroom for students with autism
A teaching assistant working with students with autism realizes the behavior modification-based teaching strategies she is told to use are robbing her students of voice and independence. She tries something else instead.
Ellos también merecen una buena enseñanza
La justicia social en un salón para niños con autismo
Una asistente educativa que trabaja con estudiantes con autismo se da cuenta que la enseanza para modificar el comportamiento que le piden que utilice les est robando a sus estudiantes su voz e independencia. As que prueba una alternativa.
The Koch Brothers Sneak into School
Right-wing billionaires buy their way into social studies classes
The Koch-funded Bill of Rights Institute cherry-picks the Constitution, history, and current events to hammer home the lesson that freedom means freedom to make money.
A Tale of Two Districts
A comparison of corporate reform strategies and popular resistance in two very different districts in New Jersey—Newark and Montclair—reveals the flexibility of the privatizers and the potential of solidarity across communities.
Black Students’ Lives Matter
Building the school to justice pipeline
We’re at a tipping point. The killings of Trayvon Martin, Jordan Davis, Mike Brown, Tamir Rice, Renisha McBride—and far too many other African Americans—have put to rest the myth of […]
Short Stuff 29.3
Long Island Teacher Boycotts Common Core Tests Beth Dimino is an 8th-grade science teacher and president of the Port Jefferson Station Teachers Association in New York. She announced in February […]
Remembering Harold Berlak
This past January, our nation lost an outstanding fighter for educational justice. Harold Berlak died at age 83 at home in Oakland, California, of congestive heart failure. The son of […]
Our picks for books, videos, websites, and other social justice education resources 29.3
Check out these valuable resources, reviewed by Rethinking Schools editors and Teaching for Change colleagues.
Fairy Tales Retold
Although many versions of “Little Red Riding Hood” exist, children’s picture book authors and illustrators most often reproduce a version of “Little Red Cap” drawn from the 19-century collections of […]
