Putting a Human Face on the Immigration Debate
For those of us working with immigrant populations, we have in our students living examples that we can use to bring the immigration issue to the forefront and teach all of our students.
Curriculum Articles
TV Selfishness and Violence Explode During ‘War On Terror
Six years into the ‘War on Terror
Polar Bears on Mission Street
San Francisco fourth graders learn about global warming and take action to save the polar bears.
Living Algebra, Living Wage
Eighth graders finally get what they ask for: an algebra lesson for the real world.”
Can’t Buy Me Love
Linda Christensen gets students to write critically about clothes, class, and consumption.
Raised by Women
Building classroom relationships through poetry.
On the Question of Mexicanidad
Encouraging prospective teachers to examine their cultural heritage.
The War in Iraq and Daily Classroom Life
Suggestions from a 5th-grade teacher on bringing the War in Iraq into the curriculum.
Test Prep and the War
Preparing high schoolers for the Regents exam while studying the War in Iraq.
Reconstructing Race
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Teaching About Global Warming in Truck Country
Helping kids who’ve grown up in the truck culture” examine climate change.
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The Recruitment Minefield
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Integrals and Equity
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Tackling Tracking
A teacher finds that small school reform presents opportunities to teach about tracking and inequality.
Exploring Our Urban Wilderness
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Lessons from a Garden Spider
An ordinary spider assists a multilingual third-grade classroom.
Beyond Pink and Blue
A unit on gender stereotypes inspires students to take action.
Forgive and Remember
Teaching forgiveness through poetry and art.
Teaching About Toxins
A Rethinking Schools editor explores the environment’s effects on her students’ health in the classroom.
Macaroni Social Justice
A 3rd-grade teacher uses thousands of pieces of macaroni to facilitate a lesson about fractions and to spur classroom conversations about wealth inequality.
Why We Should Teach Reconstruction
Unfortunately, the transformative history of Reconstruction has been buried. First by a racist tale masquerading as history and now under a top-down narrative focused on white elites. It’s long overdue we unearth the groundswell of activity that brought down the slavers of the South and set a new standard for freedom we are still struggling to achieve today.
Women of the Day
A high school teacher looks at how a daily activity focusing on the representation of women helped transform her classroom.
Creating Bias Detectives, Blowing Up Stereotypes, and Writing Essays that Matter
“Part of the work of teaching students to read is teaching them to question not only the written word, but also the author,” Christensen writes in her article about teaching students how to confront writers whose stories erase the full truth and misrepresent people and places.
As an Arab American Muslim Mother, Here Is the Education I Want for My Children
A Palestinian American mother describes the alienation that she felt in school, and how she draws on her experiences to imagine the schooling she wants for her children.
Teach the Fossil Fuel Industry — Our Students’ Enemy
“Climate justice” education means a lot of things. But one key aspect is that we involve students in probing the social and economic roots of the crisis.