Updates

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 […]

Teaching Palestine Named 2025 Skipping Stones Honor Award Winner

Rethinking Schools is honored to announce that Teaching Palestine: Lessons, Stories, Voices was named a 2025 Skipping Stones Book Award recipient. Palestine has long been one of the great silences […]

Transgender Justice in Schools Wins Multiple Book Awards

Rethinking Schools is thrilled to announce Transgender Justice in Schools, co-edited by Linda Christensen and Ty Marshall, has been awarded a 2024 Foreword INDIES Silver Book of the Year Award, […]

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. […]

Transgender Justice in Schools Was Named a 2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist

Rethinking Schools is pleased to announce Transgender Justice in Schools, co-edited by Linda Christensen and Ty Marshall, has been recognized as a finalist in the 27th annual Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards. “We crafted Transgender […]

Strike for the Climate!

Dear Rethinking Schools Teach Climate Justice friends, What a time. This is a brief installment to alert you to a couple of new articles. Thanks for your important work at […]

Start a Study Group

Rethinking Schools is a nonprofit publisher and advocacy organization dedicated to sustaining and strengthening public education through social justice teaching and education activism. Our magazine, books, and other resources promote equity and racial justice […]

NJEA Partnership

The New Jersey Education Association, with more than 200,000 members, is the second largest state association in the NEA, behind California. It has long been recognized as a powerful force […]

California’s Wildfires: Teach Climate Justice Now

The massive wildfires in the Los Angeles area have been unspeakably horrific. Our hearts go out to all of the residents and their loved ones who face tragic loss.

You Represent Hope in Hard Times

A campaign that promises the “largest deportation” in history, that claims educators force “brutal” sex change operations on children, and that represents so much ugliness, is victorious. The campaign was […]

Teaching Climate Justice and Solidarity

Welcome to the second installment of Rethinking Schools’ climate justice newsletter. As we described in our inaugural email blast: “We aim to connect climate justice educators across regions, disciplines, and […]

Rethinking Schools and BustED Pencils Partnership

Rethinking Schools is excited to announce its partnership with the BustED Pencils podcast. The BustEDpencils podcast provides a space to share critical stories about education that need to be highlighted—especially at […]

The Blue Tide of History: Music, Family History, and the Healing Power of Blues

By Jesse Hagopian Before there was a vaccination, the only COVID medicine I had for the isolation of the lockdown periods was making music with my oldest friend, Daniel Rapport. […]

Pride Month 2024

As we continue to celebrate Pride Month, we recognize that there are harmful anti-LGBTQ+ bills moving across the country. We must reaffirm our commitment to do what we can, where we can, to protect […]

Rethinking Multicultural Education 3rd Edition Named 2024 Skipping Stones Honor Award Winner

We are pleased to announce that Rethinking Multicultural Education 3rd edition is the winner of a 2024 Skipping Stones Honor Award for teaching resources. Wayne Au, editor of Rethinking Multicultural Education, expressed his appreciation, […]

The New Teacher Book Audiobook Named Independent Book Publisher Award Winner

We’re pleased to share that The New Teacher Book edited by Linda Christensen, Stan Karp, Bob Peterson, and Moé Yonamine, and narrated by Arischa Conner, has been recognized as a […]

Honoring Juneteenth

Juneteenth — June 19th — also known as Emancipation Day — is one of the commemorations of Black people seizing their freedom in the United States. Below is a list of resources […]

Teach Palestine: A Rethinking Schools Webinar

On May 15, we held a webinar on the spring issue of Rethinking Schools, Teach Palestine. Panelists offered stories, examples, and concrete strategies for teaching truthfully and critically about Palestine-Israel. At a time when the attack on social […]