4-Year-Olds Discuss Love and Marriage
An early childhood educator shows how far-ranging discussions can open children’s eyes to a broader understanding of relationships, including same-sex marriage and not getting married at all.
Los niños y las niñas de 4 años hablan sobre el amor y el matrimonio
Una maestra de preescolar demuestra cómo una variedad de conversaciones pueden ampliar el conocimiento de los niños sobre las relaciones interpersonales, incluyendo los matrimonios del mismo sexo y las parejas que no se casan.
Baby Steps Toward Restorative Justice
A middle school teacher tries to implement restorative practices in her classroom. It’s harder than she thought.
Collaborating to Capture Community Resilience
Teachers form an inquiry-based study group to support each other as they look for ways to build on the resilience of their students.
Storytelling as Resistance
After a critical look at how their community is described by others, high school students interview and tell the true stories of people in their Watts, Los Angeles, neighborhood.
Research as Healing
As 9th graders focus persuasive letters on community issues, their teacher realizes she must be open about her own pain to empower students to be open about theirs.
Can We Rescue the Common Core Standards from the Testing Machine?
Would the Common Core be OK if it weren’t for the tests? An activist/blogger says no.
Learning About Inequality
A poem for two voices
A master English teacher uses dialogue poems to develop empathy and connect history to literature.
Climate Change and School in a Yup’ik Fishing Village
In a small village in southwestern Alaska, climate change is a current reality, not a distant fear. But it’s not in the curriculum or discussed at school.
Blood on the Tracks
Why are there so few Black students in our science classes?
Science teachers at a Portland, Oregon, high school ask how they can make their science classes more welcoming to Black students.
Colonizing Wild Tongues
A teacher vividly describes her own experience of English-only schooling.
Teaching as Defiance
Recently, we posted an article at the Rethinking Schools Facebook page that listed reasons why parents should opt their children out of standardized testing, including “standardized tests narrow the curriculum.” […]
Short Stuff 29.4
Seattle Students Vote with Their Feet Not a single junior at Seattle’s Nathan Hale High School showed up to take this spring’s Smarter Balanced tests (SBAC—one version of the Common […]
Letters 29.4
Unfair to Behaviorists? The author of “They Deserve Good Teaching, Too: Social Justice in a Classroom for Students with Autism” (spring 2015) has misrepresented to your readership what Applied Behavior […]
Thinking and Playing Under Pressure
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Our picks for books and other resources for social justice teaching 29.4
Check out these valuable resources, reviewed by Rethinking Schools editors and Teaching for Change colleagues.
