Resources
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 […]
Writing for Publication: D.C. Writing Workshop
Writing can be a transformative tool for community-building and activism. Join Rethinking Schools and D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice for a three-day, in-person writers’ workshop in Washington, D.C. This workshop invites […]
NEA Conference on Racial and Social Justice
More than 800 educators from across the country convened in Portland, Oregon, from June 29-July 1 to learn, strategize, and organize for racial and social justice in classrooms and communities. […]
From Muffins to Movements:
Building Teacher Communities of Resistance
Kushya Sugarman and Laura Taylor
Sugarman and Taylor detail the challenges and successes of teachers using Teaching for Black Lives study groups to refuse isolation and defy the crackdown on anti-racist education.
Building the School-to-Abolition Pipeline
Nataliya Braginsky
A high school teacher explains how restorative justice helps students envision a different model of justice and community at school.
Original Sins — and What to Do About Them
An Interview with Eve L. Ewing
Cierra Kaler-Jones
Cierra Kaler-Jones interviews author Eve L. Ewing about her new book Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism.
“I Really Felt Like I Was Using My Writing for Good”
Student Writing on Redlining, Urban Renewal, and Gentrification — The Definition Essay
Linda Christensen
Christensen details strategies to encourage students to write essays that matter while they investigate decades of housing discrimination in their neighborhood.
Teaching “Mexican Repatriation”:
Uncovering Histories of Deportation and Belonging
Erin Green
A 5th-grade teacher engages students in a unit on the forced deportation of 2 million Mexicans and Mexican Americans from the United States during the Great Depression.
I’m a Muslim High School Student. I Fear Texas’ New Bible-Infused Curriculum.
Marium Zahra
A high school student criticizes Texas’ new reading and language arts elementary school curriculum that encourages teachers to bring Christianity into classrooms.