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Volume 35, No. 3

SPRING 2021

Volume 35, No. 2

WINTER 2020–21

Volume 35, No. 1

FALL 2020

Volume 34, No. 4

SUMMER 2020

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To the Alumni Class of First Semester, 2020:

Julia Kirkpatrick

To the class that never was You exist only as ghost children, and I to you a ghost teacher.Do I know you?What did you look like, behind your black Zoom square? What […]

Teaching the Green New Deal: The Prequel

Suzanna Kassouf, Matt Reed, Tim Swinehart, Ursula Wolfe-Rocca, and Bill Bigelow

In an article introducing the student-friendly short video, A Message from the Future, about life after the Green New Deal, Naomi Klein points out: Almost every vision of the future […]

Spring 2021: Our picks for books, videos, websites, and other social justice education resources.

— WebsiteOne Out of Five: Disability History and Pride ProjectDesigned by the Washington State Governor’s Office of the Education Ombuds in partnership with Rooted in Rights, Adina Rosenberg, and Sarah Arveybit.ly/One_Out_of_Five […]

Necessary Trouble

Bringing the Climate Disobedience Movement into Our Classrooms

Ursula Wolfe-Rocca

I am a runner. I run for time alone, to catch up on history podcasts, and because exercise is one of the few reliable tools I have to combat the […]

“We’re Just People Who Don’t Want to Be Killed”

Tina Starks

A piece of our worth was stolen on Jan. 6, 2021. A mob brandishing the flag of the Confederacy as well as the campaign flags of the outgoing president stormed […]

Teaching A People’s History of the March on Washington

Jessica Lovaas and Adam Sanchez

Nearly every child in the United States learns about Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. The March on Washington, where King delivered this speech, is one of […]

Essay Unbound

Opening the Canon of Literary Analysis

Linda Christensen

Often, when students reach high school, the literary analysis essay is the only genre of writing taught. In fact, one literary analysis per quarter is de rigueur in some schools. […]

To Find What Works in the Virtual Classroom, Many Teachers Are Adapting Old Strategies

Sarah Jaffe

Matt Reed, a teacher at Lincoln High School in Portland, Oregon, was worried about one of his 9th-grade students. Portland Public Schools, he explained, had been all-remote since March 13, […]

Special Education Teachers, Students, and Parents Speak Out

We asked a group of teachers, parents, and students to share an important moment or story related to their role in special education during the pandemic. Here’s what they shared . . .

Zo Clement, Fabian Rivera Segarra, Mercedes N. Muñoz, Joseph R. Passi, Faith Ann Douglas, Monise Seward, Saili S. Kulkarni, Samuel Bland, Monica Gonzalez, Justice McDonald, Carson Chodos, and Sophia Johansson

Some Students Are FlyingBy Zo Clement I have been continually amazed at the resilience of my students during the pandemic. As an 8th-grade inclusion teacher in Washington, D.C., my scholars […]

The Story of One Union’s Journey Toward Disability Justice

Expanding Our Beliefs and Demands for Inclusive Education

Emma Fialka-Feldman

I grew up in the suburbs of Detroit. In the early 1990s, my family fought to have my brother Micah, who had been labeled with an intellectual disability with needs […]