Resources
CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF RETHINKING SCHOOLS!
Since our founding, we have promoted a vision of education that equips students to imagine — and to help create — the transition to a more just society. Schools can […]
Host a House Party for Rethinking Schools!
We are thrilled to be celebrating 40 years at Rethinking Schools! Over the past 40 years, Rethinking Schools has maintained the grassroots organizing spirit of its founders, while expanding its […]
We Make Each Other Braver: Climate Justice Now
Welcome to the fifth installment of Rethinking Schools’ climate justice newsletter. Dear Rethinking Schools Teach Climate Justice friends, It’s been a while. Happy New Year, if it’s not too late […]
Be Your Better Self
Writing to Embrace Humanity in a Time of Despair
Linda Christensen
Students write narratives on kindness and solidarity to speak back to despair.
Trans Teacher, Detrans Student
A Roadmap for Transformation
Jaymie Métivier
A trans teacher draws out lessons for all educators from painful conversations with a student who has detransitioned.
In It for the Long Haul: Increasing the Possibility of Freedom and Liberation for All
An Interview with Mariame Kaba
Cierra Kaler-Jones
Cierra Kaler-Jones interviews Mariame Kaba, organizer, educator, archivist, curator, and author of We Do This ’Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice.
Resisting the Rise of the Bots
the Editors of Rethinking Schools
In the next 10 years the AI education market is projected to reach between $112 billion and $127 billion — more than double the federal government’s entire K–12 education budget. […]
AI Under 6
The Harms of Child-Targeted Artificial Intelligence
Rachel Franz and Susan Linn
Franz and Linn describe the dangers AI poses to children under 6.
Educators Over AI
Because No Bot Can Build a Beloved Classroom
Jesse Hagopian
Hagopian speaks back to the AI hype, arguing that AI cannot replace educators.
“Human Beings! Human Beings!” An Open Letter to Educators on the Dangers of AI
Ursula Wolfe-Rocca
A high school teacher and Rethinking Schools editor denounces AI as a wolf in sheep’s clothing.