Cuentos del corazón/Stories from the Heart
An after-school writing project for bilingual students and their families
Second graders and their families write together, countering Arizona’s English-only, segregated, and anti-immigrant school policies.
Cuentos del corazón
Un proyecto de escritura después de clases para los estudiantes bilingües y sus familias
Los estudiantes de segundo grado escriben junto con sus familias, desafiando las políticas monolingües, anti-inmigrantes, y de segregación de Arizona.
English-Only to the Core
What the Common Core means for emergent bilingual youth
Is the Common Core better than current approaches to English language learners—or the next salvo in more than a decade of attacks on bilingual programs?
“¿Qué es deportar?”
Teaching from students’ lives
An early elementary school teacher realizes she needs to dump the scripted curriculum and basal reader, find Latina/o literature in Spanish, and make space for her students’ thoughts and feelings.
“¿Qué es deportar?”
Enseñar a partir de las vidas de los estudiantes
Una maestra de primaria se da cuenta que debe dejar a un lado el guión y la antología de su currículo para encontrar literatura latina en español y abrir un espacio a las vidas de sus estudiantes.
Who Made the New Deal?
Part I: What Caused the Great Depression?
High school students play the Widget Boom Game to understand how overproduction and underconsumption helped cause the Great Depression.
Baby Mamas in Literature and Life
Inspired by students’ responses to her own pregnancy, a high school English teacher develops a unit based on teen pregnancy and motherhood—rejecting the usual deficit-based narrative of teen parenting.
A Midsummer Night’s Gender Diversity
Middle schoolers explore how Shakespeare plays with gender expression and expectations in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
The Hidden Agenda of High School Assemblies
A high school teacher realizes that, despite her school’s diverse student body, the students on the stage at assemblies are virtually all white and male. She sets out to understand why and to change the pattern.
Bilingual Education: Stories from the Heart
As always, Rethinking Schools has several new books in process. This issue we feature three articles destined for one of these: Rethinking Bilingual Education, edited by Grace Cornell Gonzales, Elizabeth […]
Anti-Privatization Movement Goes International // Arabic Language Pathway Attacked in San Francisco
Anti-Privatization Movement Goes International By Bob Peterson Teacher union leaders from around the world pledged to build an international movement against school privatization and commercialization at the 7th World Congress […]
Mirrors and Windows: Conversations with Jacqueline Woodson
It is March 2015. America is reeling from the killings of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, John Crawford, and Ezell Ford. As the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter is trending, images of unarmed Black […]
Our picks for books and other resources for social justice teachingResources 30.1
Check out these valuable resources, reviewed by Rethinking Schools editors and Teaching for Change colleagues.
Beyond Magenta
“You have got to come out here and see this!” That’s how a transgender student was introduced to her homeroom teacher at a high school in my district. When I […]
