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Volume 36, No. 3

Spring 2022

No More “Normal”

By the editors of Rethinking Schools
Protecting Trans Youth

By Rethinking Schools Editors
Teaching for Peace in a Time of War

By the editors of Rethinking Schools
“Instead of Going to School or University, Ukrainian Children and Young People Are Hiding in Shelters, Trembling, and Shuddering from Every Noise”
How the Attack on Teachers Threatens the Future of Public Schools

By Sarah Jaffe
Poetic Pauses During the Pandemic

By Linda Christensen
Choreographing for Justice

By Emily Todras
Educators Speak Out: Spring 2022

By Julia Putnam, Lynn Fedele, Marilyn Ricketts-Lindsay, Debra Hunter, Shalonda McGhee, Mona M. Abo-Zena, Tiffany Mitchell Patterson, Sally Stanhope, and Kawal Varpaul
Action Research for Environmental Justice in the Kindergarten Classroom

By Kimi Waite
Expanding Intersectional Queer History in the Elementary Grades

By Laura Shelton
ZINN AT 100: Empire or Humanity?

What the Classroom Didn’t Teach Me About the American Empire

By Howard Zinn
Our picks for books, videos, websites, and other social justice resources: Spring 2022, Volume 36.3
As She Rises

A Podcast Helps Students Reach Beyond Climate Disaster Statistics

By Tim Swinehart

Volume 36, No. 2

Winter 2021-22

As States Build Barriers to Racial Justice Teaching, Educators Fight Back

By Rachel M. Cohen
How State Standards Misteach the Meaning of One of the United States’ Most Important Eras

By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca
Teaching Against Imperialism

By the editors of Rethinking Schools
bell hooks: Learning as Revolution
Learning from — and Mourning — James Loewen

By the editors of Rethinking Schools
Who Killed Reconstruction?

A Trial Role Play

By Adam Sanchez
“Who Spent Two Months in Jail for Participating in the Freedom Rides?!”

Bringing Civil Rights Activists to Life in an Elementary Classroom

By Erin Green
“I Saw Eyes Begin to Widen”

Joys, Pitfalls, and Dilemmas in Using Role Play in the Classroom

By the Zinn Education Project
“Take These Nametags Off!”

Disrupting Poorly Designed Classroom Role Play

By Azizah Curry Iluore
Zinn at 100: The Scourge of Nationalism

What Makes Our Nation Immune from the Normal Standards of Human Decency?

By Howard Zinn
Helping Young People Imagine a Future of Climate Solidarity

Earth, Justice, and Our Classrooms

By Bill Bigelow
Our picks for books, videos, websites, and other social justice resources: Winter 2021-22, Volume 36.2
Letters: Winter 2021-22

Volume 36, No. 1

Fall 2021

Confronting the Right-Wing Attacks on Racial Justice Teaching

By Rethinking Schools Editors
In Memory of Thomas Nikundiwe

By the Education for Liberation Board
Listening Between the Lines

The Sound of Curriculum

By Anne Smith
The People v. the Hip-Hop Industry

By Jessica A. Rucker
The Power of Teaching Poetry

A Conversation Between Renée Watson and Linda Christensen
Through the Lens of Those We Love

Uplifting Oral Histories and Finding Common Threads

By Cierra Kaler-Jones
To Teach About the Climate Emergency, Let’s Learn from the Movement to Abolish Slavery

Earth, Justice, and Our Classrooms

By Bill Bigelow
“We Will Remain Standing on This Land and Teach”

By Nina Shoman-Dajani
Fifth-Grade Detectives Uncover the Dominant Narrative

By Erin Green
Sin Fronteras

Writing Poetry About Borderlands to Bring Down Walls and Build Connections

By Katy Alexander
Our picks for books, videos, websites, and other social justice resources: Fall 2021, Volume 36.1

Volume 35, No. 4

Summer 2021

Right-Wing Legislators Are Trying to Stop Us from Teaching for Racial Justice. We Refuse.

By Editors of Rethinking Schools
Pledge to Teach the Truth

By Alexandros Acedo, Ericka Alfaro, Cassandra Black, Stephanie Melendez, Greg Michie, Tiffany Mitchell Patterson, Kumar Sathy, and Zach Wilson
“I’m Going to Keep Doing What I Do”

Iowa Educators Resist New State Law

By Monique Cottman, Lisa Covington, and Jesse Hagopian
Pledge to #TeachTruth Day of Action
More Than McCarthyism

Activists Our Students Deserve to Know

By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca
The Story of a Seed

Food Sovereignty in an Elementary Classroom

By Caitlin Blood
Voting for and from the Margins

Reimagining Electability Through Poetry

By Kurt David
The Resurgence of Teacher Unions

By Arlene Inouye and Jackson Potter
What Catalina Taught Me About Inclusion

By Megan McQueen
What I Wish I Had Said

By Anita Stratton
Big Reactions to Small Steps

One Teacher’s Story About Using Inclusive Children’s Literature

By Nettie Harrington Pangallo
The Attack on Anti-Racist Teaching Is an Attack on Environmental Justice Teaching

By Bill Bigelow
Our picks for books, videos, websites, and other social justice resources 35.4

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Our picks for books, videos, websites, and other social justice resources 39.3

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

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

Cristina Paul in collaboration with Olivia Lozano and Nancy Villalta

During a unit on changemakers, 1st and 2nd graders learn about power, change, representation, and community through the songs of Nina Simone.

Six Ways U.S. History Textbooks Mislead Students About the History Between Central America and the United States

Olvin Abrego Ayala and Elizabeth Hertzler-McCain

Ayala and Hertzler-McCain examine the ways 10 popular U.S. history textbooks ignore the U.S. government’s role in destabilizing Central America, causing waves of immigration to the United States.

Teaching the Culprits of Climate Chaos

Bill Bigelow

Using his updated climate crisis trial, Bigelow shows how students explore the forces behind climate chaos.

This Land Is Our Land

Debbie Reese

Debbie Reese reviews This Land: The History of the Land We’re On by Ashley Fairbanks

Why We Cannot Go Back to Basics

Reclaiming The Right to Teach Literacy

Daniel Ferguson, Laurie Rabinowitz, and Amy Tondreau

Three literacy and early education scholars expose the racist, anti-teacher politics behind the push to implement “Science of Reading” curriculum in schools.

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

Jesse Hagopian

Hagopian details how Seattle educators, students, and parents stopped their district’s school closure plan.

Sanctuary Lessons

How Chicago Teachers Are Defending Their Students

Kelly Hayes

Hayes shares lessons from the Chicago Teachers Union’s efforts to protect undocumented students.

Teaching the Haibun During Times of Chaos and Struggle

Linda Christensen

Christensen teaches the writing process by encouraging students to celebrate beloved places with the haibun, a Japanese poetic form.

Creating Classrooms for Equity and Social Justice

the editors of Rethinking Schools

On Jan. 29, the White House released an executive order (EO), “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling.” The EO is a rambling and lawless document that fundamentally misstates the role […]