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Volume 40, No. 1

Don’t Stop Teaching About Gaza

By the editors of Rethinking Schools
It’s a Beautiful Day in Ms. Rachel’s Neighborhood

By Larry Miller
Families Talk About Palestine

A Liberatory Approach to Learning

By Hannah Halpern
How Rank-and-File Organizing Pushed United Teachers Los Angeles to Take a Stand on Palestine

By Shannon Paaske
Educators: Support Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions

By Lara Kiswani
What a Gazan Should Do During an Israeli Air Strike

By Mosab Abu Toha
What’s Missing in Holocaust Education?

By Marcy Winograd and Rick Chertoff
Black History Is for Everyone

An Interview with Brian Jones

By Jesse Hagopian
Snapshots of Joy

Using Photo Analysis to Challenge Dominant Narratives

By Cierra Kaler-Jones and Karen Lee
Exploring Our Houses of Memories Through Poetry

By Linda Christensen
The Power of Plants

Learning About Herbs and Indigenous Wisdom in Laos

By Megan Vosk
Our picks for books, videos, websites, and other social justice resources 40.1
Teaching About the “Stuff That Is Actually Happening”

By Moé Yonamine

Volume 39, No. 4

Backlash Politics and the Dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education

By the editors of Rethinking Schools
Trump’s Education by Indoctrination Must Be Fought with Social Justice Unionism

By Jesse Hagopian
The Chicago Teachers Union Is Showing Us How to Fight Trump

By Adam Sanchez
Teaching “Mexican Repatriation”:

Uncovering Histories of Deportation and Belonging

By Erin Green
Sweet Stuff

Teaching About Sugar Subterfuge in Biology Class

By Amy Polzin
“I Really Felt Like I Was Using My Writing for Good”

Student Writing on Redlining, Urban Renewal, and Gentrification — The Definition Essay

By Linda Christensen
Original Sins — and What to Do About Them

An Interview with Eve L. Ewing

By Cierra Kaler-Jones
Building the School-to-Abolition Pipeline

By Nataliya Braginsky
From Muffins to Movements:

Building Teacher Communities of Resistance

By Kushya Sugarman and Laura Taylor
I’m a Muslim High School Student. I Fear Texas’ New Bible-Infused Curriculum.

By Marium Zahra
Our picks for books, videos, websites, and other social justice resources 39.4
Parable of the Sower and Climate Futures

By Mimi Eisen

Volume 39, No. 3

Creating Classrooms for Equity and Social Justice

By the editors of Rethinking Schools
Teaching the Fight for Queer Liberation

By Nick Palazzolo
Teaching the Haibun During Times of Chaos and Struggle

By Linda Christensen
What Nina Simone Teaches 1st and 2nd Graders About Making Change

By Cristina Paul in collaboration with Olivia Lozano and Nancy Villalta
Six Ways U.S. History Textbooks Mislead Students About the History Between Central America and the United States

By Olvin Abrego Ayala and Elizabeth Hertzler-McCain
Sanctuary Lessons

How Chicago Teachers Are Defending Their Students

By Kelly Hayes
Seattle Planned to Close Up to 21 Public Schools — Here’s How We Stopped Them

By Jesse Hagopian
Why We Cannot Go Back to Basics

Reclaiming The Right to Teach Literacy

By Daniel Ferguson, Laurie Rabinowitz, and Amy Tondreau
This Land Is Our Land

By Debbie Reese
Our picks for books, videos, websites, and other social justice resources 39.3
Teaching the Culprits of Climate Chaos

By Bill Bigelow

Volume 39, No. 2

Teaching Hope in Hard Times

By the editors of Rethinking Schools
Defenders of Israel Attempt to Silence Anti-Racist Educators in Philadelphia

By Adam Sanchez
Talking to Young Children About Gaza

By Reem Abuelhaj
Excerpts from Teaching Palestine’s Poetry Teaching Guide

By Linda Christensen
Israeli Apartheid: A Simulation

Orange Bags, Green Bags, Red Bags, Blue Bags

By Suzanna Kassouf
“Superachievers” vs. “Super Predators”: How the Racist Love of the Model Minority Is Weaponized Against Black and Asian American Students

By Wayne Au
Table Talk: An IEP Meeting — from the Other Side

By Anne Smith
“Starcups Workers Unite!” — Students Learn Their Workplace Rights

By Nicolle Fefferman
Why We Need to Teach the History of the Environmental Justice Movement

By Tim Swinehart
Our picks for books, videos, websites, and other social justice resources 39.2
Teaching for Climate Justice: My Top 10 List

By Bill Bigelow

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The Power of Plants

Learning About Herbs and Indigenous Wisdom in Laos

Megan Vosk

A middle school teacher in Laos attempts to restore her and her students’ connections to the land through gardening together and learning about Indigenous medicine.

Black History Is for Everyone

An Interview with Brian Jones

Jesse Hagopian

Jesse Hagopian interviews author Brian Jones about his new book Black History Is for Everyone.

Teaching About the “Stuff That Is Actually Happening”

Moé Yonamine

Yonamine describes how learning about young people fighting against climate change energized her summer school students.

Don’t Stop Teaching About Gaza

the editors of Rethinking Schools

As this issue of Rethinking Schools went online, Israel and Hamas reached the first stage of a ceasefire agreement. Although it is still unclear whether this ceasefire will last beyond the first […]

Exploring Our Houses of Memories Through Poetry

Linda Christensen

Christensen uses abecedarian poetry to excavate student memories and bring their lives into the classroom.

What a Gazan Should Do During an Israeli Air Strike

Mosab Abu Toha

A poem by Mosab Abu Toha, the Pulitzer Prize-winning essayist and poet.
Teaching Idea by Linda Christensen

Snapshots of Joy

Using Photo Analysis to Challenge Dominant Narratives

Cierra Kaler-Jones and Karen Lee

Kaler-Jones and Lee discuss how they used photographs of joy to humanize leaders of the Civil Rights Movement.

Our picks for books, videos, websites, and other social justice resources 40.1

Check out these valuable resources, reviewed by Rethinking Schools editors and Teaching for Change colleagues.

It’s a Beautiful Day in Ms. Rachel’s Neighborhood

Larry Miller

Rethinking Schools editor Larry Miller discovers Ms. Rachel and her courageous stance on Gaza through engagement with his granddaughter.

Families Talk About Palestine

A Liberatory Approach to Learning

Hannah Halpern

A former classroom teacher describes a series of workshops she helped put together for Jewish families interested in learning about Palestine.