State Out of the Union: Teaching for Change Hosts Jeff Biggers
On September 26, just days into Latino/Hispanic Heritage Month, Teaching for Change hosted an event at Busboys and Poets in Washington, D.C. featuring author/historian Jeff Biggers in a new show on immigration, civil rights, and states’ rights. The event was a stop on Biggers’ 30-city nationwide book tour for the release of his latest book, more »
Join Us at “A is for Anansi: A Conference on Children’s Literature”
Teaching for Change is honored to participate in the Institute of African American Affairs conference at New York University called “A Is for Anansi: Literature for Children of African Descent” on November 9-10th, 2012. This is the second conference hosted by the Institute of African American Affairs to “deepen and diversify the cannon, conversation and more »
Planet Maud Vintage & Co. Trunk Show Benefiting Teaching for Change
Shop, mingle, and enjoy the sounds of DJ Jahsonic at the Planet Maud Vintage & Co. trunk show benefiting Teaching for Change on Sunday, October 14. Just steps from the Teaching for Change bookstore, shop for out of this world vintage and handmade goods from 2-6pm at Restaurant Marvin in Washington, D.C.’s historic U Street more »
Two Chances to Learn About Award Winning Latino Children’s Literature
Teaching for Change is pleased to co-sponsor two events with the Américas Book Award in early October in Washington, DC. One of our staff members, America Calderon, served on the 2012 Americas Award selection committee. If you’ve not read the award winning titles, we encourage you to add them to your reading list today.
Teaching for Change Pioneers Latino Parent Leadership Training in D.C.
In Washington, D.C. and in cities across the country, cultural and language barriers present some of the biggest challenges to building effective home-school partnerships. Teaching for Change’s parent empowerment initiative has a few methods for overcoming this stumbling block: providing translation services for parent meetings, recruiting multilingual parent leaders, and promoting cultural understanding through community more »
Can You Name a Central American Author or Historical Figure?
Teaching for Change launches campaign to provide K-12 teachers with free resources on the untold history and literature of Central America. More than 3 million Central Americans reside in the United States today, yet the resources on Latino heritage in most schools focus on Mexico, South America, or Spain. Central America is simply a strip more »
Working Together: Parents and Principal Start the Year with a Critical Dialogue
In a promising start to the 2012-2013 school year, parents at Strong John Thomson Elementary (D.C. Public Schools) convened for the first of many discussions with Principal Carmen Shepherd. Just after the start of the school day on September 7, about 30 parents—a few with toddlers or infants in tow—gathered in the large meeting room more »
Thank You, Summer Interns and Volunteers!
We thank our four interns and volunteers from the summer of 2012: Truman Scholars Dominique Hazzard and Sarah Neitz, Bates College student Bridget Feldman, and early childhood classroom teacher Amy Rothschild. They worked on our Ask Me About campaign on Central America, the “this day in history” photo album for the Zinn Education Project on Facebook, more »
Teachers Connect with Families, Neighborhood During Community Walks
On Wednesday, August 22, 2012, parents at Thomson Elementary School (DCPS) led teachers and administrators on a Community Walk through the neighborhood in which many of the families live. More than 60 teachers, parents, and students visited local landmarks and the buildings that many of the school’s Latino families call home. As the group from Thomson progressed more »
Teaching for Change Offers Dynamic Training for DCPS Head Start
How could this training be improved? “More of it.” Role playing, strategy games, storytelling, and interviews were just some of the activities in store for D.C. Public Schools’ Community and Parent Outreach Coordinators (CPOCs) for Head Start. “Thank you!” and “I enjoyed it!” were among the comments the CPOCs shared at the end, but they more »
