What Nina Simone Teaches 1st and 2nd Graders About Making Change
During a unit on changemakers, 1st and 2nd graders learn about power, change, representation, and community through the songs of Nina Simone.
Curriculum Articles
Teaching the Haibun During Times of Chaos and Struggle
Christensen teaches the writing process by encouraging students to celebrate beloved places with the haibun, a Japanese poetic form.
Teaching the Fight for Queer Liberation
Students imagine themselves as LGBTQ+ activists and debate key questions facing organizers through more than 50 years of movement history.
Why We Need to Teach the History of the Environmental Justice Movement
A high school social studies teacher discusses ways to teach the rich history of multiracial, community-based environmental organizing in the United States.
“Starcups Workers Unite!” — Students Learn Their Workplace Rights
The director of the Young Workers Education Project describes a high school simulation based on recent Starbucks workers’ organizing.
Israeli Apartheid: A Simulation
A high school teacher and co-editor of Teaching Palestine details a classroom simulation revealing some of the inequities Palestinians face throughout Israel and the Occupied Territories.
Teaching Palestine
Palestine has long been one of the great silences in the official curriculum. Teaching Palestine: Lessons, Stories, Voices provides educators with powerful tools to uncover the history and current context […]
Why Do You Live Where You Live?
A middle school English teacher uses online mapping tools to connect past racist housing policy to the present.
“More People Get What They Need”
First graders learn about accessibility and empathy through constructing emergency signals.
Rethinking Teaching About the USPHS Untreated Syphilis Study at Tuskegee: A Revision that Centers Resistance
A high school science teacher revises her lesson on the USPHS Untreated Syphilis Study at Tuskegee to center resistance.
Green, Blue, Yellow, Red: Mapping Spatial Injustice
Layering maps, a former high school science teacher illustrates spatial injustice in air quality and highway construction.
Simulating Redlining: When “Race Was the Real Currency”
A high school social studies teacher describes a classroom simulation where students experience the effects of decades of racist federal housing policies.
Transgender Justice in Schools
Transgender Justice in Schools provides inspirational stories from trans students and educators and resources for teachers, students, and parents seeking to build communities where everyone flourishes. This book will educate, […]
Debunking False Climate Solutions in Our Classrooms
An environmental justice teacher encourages students to critically examine proposed solutions to climate change.
For Students to Understand Today’s Violence in Palestine-Israel, We Need to Teach About Zionism and the British Empire
Bigelow details a new mixer lesson about the roots of Zionism in the classroom — and its relevance for today’s crisis.
Grounding in Our Roots: Preserving Family History Through Migration Narratives
A high school language arts teacher writes about the power of students interviewing family and friends to develop migration narratives.
Nurturing a Rainbow of Resistance to Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws
Christensen describes teaching high school students about new anti-LGBTQ+ laws — and the growing resistance to them.
Honoring Juneteenth
Juneteenth — June 19th — also known as Emancipation Day — is one of the commemorations of Black people seizing their freedom in the United States. Below is a list of resources […]
Teaching the Truth About National Parks
An environmental justice teacher engages students in an examination of the problematic history of national parks.
The Story of the Chicago Young Lords for Teachers
A Chicago educator discusses the creation of a new curriculum on the Young Lords, one of the most imaginative and effective organizations of the 1960s.
No, Anti-Zionism Is Not Antisemitism
Bigelow describes a new lesson on the roots of the violence in Palestine — and argues that history shows that anti-Zionism is not automatically antisemitism.
Community Building as World Building
An early elementary teacher details an engineering unit. Students design a model community — with no police or banks — in which everyone gets what they need.
Books Aren’t Enough to Challenge Rape Culture
A high school English teacher describes how she encouraged students to disrupt and speak out against rape culture while reading the novel Speak.
Rethinking Multicultural Education 3rd Edition
Practical, rich in story, and analytically sharp, Rethinking Multicultural Education can help current and future educators as they seek to bring racial and cultural justice into their own classrooms.
What Makes a Baby, Really?
An 8th-grade teacher creates inclusive resources about human reproduction with his students.