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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.

What’s Missing in Holocaust Education?

Marcy Winograd and Rick Chertoff

Winograd and Chertoff expose the Echoes & Reflections curriculum — produced by the Anti-Defamation League, Yad Vashem, and the Shoah Foundation — for its pro-Israel indoctrination and offer an alternative vision for how to teach about the Holocaust.

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

Shannon Paaske

A UTLA organizer details the emergence of LA Educators for Justice in Palestine and the organizing that led to the second largest teacher union in the country to call for divestment from companies and bonds associated with Israel’s military actions in Gaza.

Educators: Support Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions

Lara Kiswani

A Palestinian organizer articulates why teachers should heed the call from Palestinian civil society to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel.

Teaching Palestine Named 2025 Skipping Stones Honor Award Winner

Rethinking Schools is honored to announce that Teaching Palestine: Lessons, Stories, Voices was named a 2025 Skipping Stones Book Award recipient.  Palestine has long been one of the great silences […]

Transgender Justice in Schools Wins Multiple Book Awards

Rethinking Schools is thrilled to announce Transgender Justice in Schools, co-edited by Linda Christensen and Ty Marshall, has been awarded a 2024 Foreword INDIES Silver Book of the Year Award, […]

Bob Peterson Honored with the Tony Baez Lifetime Achievement Award

We are thrilled to share that Bob Peterson, co-founder of Rethinking Schools and member of the editorial board and Board of Directors, has been honored with the Tony Baez Lifetime […]

Rethinking Schools’ open letter to the NEA on the leadership’s decision to overturn the democratic vote of the members to drop the ADL

“Over the past 21 months of war, more than 17,000 children have reportedly been killed and 33,000 injured in Gaza,” UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell recently told the United Nations […]