Blood on the Tracks
Science teachers at a Portland, Oregon, high school ask how they can make their science classes more welcoming to Black students.
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Can We Rescue the Common Core Standards from the Testing Machine?
Would the Common Core be OK if it weren’t for the tests? An activist/blogger says no.
Climate Change and School in a Yup’ik Fishing Village
In a small village in southwestern Alaska, climate change is a current reality, not a distant fear. But it’s not in the curriculum or discussed at school.
Colonizing Wild Tongues
A teacher vividly describes her own experience of English-only schooling.
Learning About Inequality
A master English teacher uses dialogue poems to develop empathy and connect history to literature.
Empowering Change Through Art
A teacher educator introduces her students to labor history and makes a case for its centrality to U.S. history.
Happening Yesterday, Happened Tomorrow
A poet/teacher/activist shows students how to use poetry to understand and share their pain and outrage.
Strike!
A teacher educator introduces her students to labor history and makes a case for its centrality to U.S. history.
Sucediendo ayer, sucedió mañana
Una poeta, maestra y activista le muestra a sus estudiantes cómo utilizar la poesía para entender y compartir el dolor y la rabia que sienten.
When Emma Goldman Entered the Room
When misogynist stereotypes emerge during a role play, a high school history teacher must decide how best to raise the issue.
A Tale of Two Districts
A comparison of corporate reform strategies and popular resistance in two very different districts in New Jersey—Newark and Montclair—reveals the flexibility of the privatizers and the potential of solidarity across communities.
Ellos también merecen una buena enseñanza
Una asistente educativa que trabaja con estudiantes con autismo se da cuenta que la enseanza para modificar el comportamiento que le piden que utilice les est robando a sus estudiantes su voz e independencia. As que prueba una alternativa.
Singing Up Our Ancestors
Students learn some cultural history, “raise the bones” of a biographical poem, and then write their own.
“Aren’t You on the Parent Listserv?”
A kindergarten teacher tries to change the power imbalance between Spanish- and English-speaking parents in her classroom and school.
Rocketship to Profits
Rocketship Education, a rapidly expanding charter school chain, shows what happens when the rich control our schools.
The Military Invasion of My High School
A high school teacher describes the problematic impact of the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps at her school.
Environmental Crime on Trial
The 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill coincided with my first year of teaching modern world history at a high school in Portland, Oregon.
Mything Mandela
Kadir Nelson’s acclaimed picture book Mandela portrays Nelson Mandela as an isolated hero, ignoring the movement of which he was an integral part.
Carbon Matters
A 6th-grade teacher uses the carbon cycle to help students understand climate change. Along the way, she deals with a parent who wants her to give equal time to “climate change is a myth.”
Independence or Catastrophe?
A social studies teacher uses conflicting narratives to engage students in studying the history of Palestine/Israel, focusing on the events of 1948.
Civil Disobedience
When a substitute is insensitive to a fragile student, her classmates look to Thoreau for inspiration about how to respond.
Creando el mito de Mandela
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Desobediencia civil
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Trayvon Martin and My Students
President Obama’s speech about the Zimmerman acquittal in Trayvon Martin’s murder and Cornel West’s response are rich sources for students learning how to analyze, evaluate, and critique.
Sex Talk on the Carpet
Instead of leaving “the puberty talk” to the nurse, an elementary teacher incorporates age-appropriate discussion into her regular classroom routine.