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Check out these valuable resources, reviewed by Rethinking Schools editors and Teaching for Change colleagues.
Check out these valuable resources, reviewed by Rethinking Schools editors and Teaching for Change colleagues.
Our thoughts on essential resources for teaching about Palestine.
Check out these valuable resources, reviewed by Rethinking Schools editors and Teaching for Change colleagues.
Bigelow discusses a recent episode of the NPR podcast Code Switch focused on student organized climate victory in Baltimore.
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.
Eisen and Wolfe-Rocca critique textbook timelines and introduce the new Zinn Education Project Climate Justice Timeline.
Check out these valuable resources, reviewed by Rethinking Schools editors and Teaching for Change colleagues.
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Swinehart highlights the work of Leah Penniman to teach about the connection between food and racial justice.
Download Free Discussion Guides Did you know that select Rethinking Schools books have discussion guides? These free downloadable guides are perfect for book reading groups. Here’s how to get started: […]
One of the most-read articles Rethinking Schools has published, Miner’s 1991 interview of Enid Lee resounds today.
A high school social studies teacher describes a lesson that uses improvisations, historical fiction, and found poems to help students appreciate the first era of Black power: Reconstruction.
The best picks from Rethinking Schools for resources for your classroom and for your mind.
The best picks from Rethinking Schools for resources for your classroom and for your mind.
Like you, we are angry and fearful about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and these are terrifying times for our students. As Ukrainian educator Igor Tsyvgintsev reminds us, “The entire curriculum of school studies comes down to humaneness.”
In his sadly timeless song “Masters of War,” Bob Dylan sang: You fasten all the triggers For the others to fire Then you sit back and watch When the death […]
The best picks from Rethinking Schools for resources for your classroom and for your mind (Winter 2021-22 edition).
Sanchez describes a role play about the demise of Reconstruction that helps students get beyond the question “Was Reconstruction a success or failure?”
Raising writers By Linda Christensen The read-around is the classroom equivalent to quilt making or barn raising. It is the public space—the zócalo or town square—of my room. During our […]
Wolfe-Rocca describes her mixer around the “Valve Turners,” a group of climate disobedience activists who put their bodies on the line to stop the harm of pipelines.
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Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre, No Voice Too Small: Fourteen Young Americans Making History, The Selected Works of Audre Lorde, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks — Young Readers Edition, A Graphic Biography of Paul Robeson, Black Lives Matter at School: An Uprising for Educational Justice, We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, & Possibility, Time to Teach: A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement, Celebrate People’s History: The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution
A middle school teacher organizes a tribunal for her students on responsibility for the COVID-19 crisis in the United States. Among those on trial are Mother Nature, Gen Z/Millennials, the Healthcare Industry, Racism and White Supremacy, the Chinese Government, the U.S. Government, and the Capitalist System.
*** Curriculum Guide for Racial Justice & Abolitionist Social and Emotional Learning (Abolitionist Teaching Network, 2020)bit.ly/2DUWg0E12 pp. This online Guide for Racial Justice & Abolitionist Social and Emotional Learning is […]
The best teachers that I’ve had are still quiet voices in my head. In college, I took Professor Phyllis Jackson’s art history course “Black Aesthetics and the Politics of (Re)presentation.” […]