Overview

Teaching for Change is dedicated to providing teachers, parents and activists access to educational publications that inspire students to question, challenge and re-think the world beyond the headlines. We do this through our bookstore, the Zinn Education Project, promoting anti-bias children's books, and the publishing of our own books.

Online Store

Our aim is to provide online access to the best progressive titles that encourage children and adults to question, challenge, and re-think the world beyond the headlines. The online store features author events, bookstore bestsellers, people's history titles, and sections on Activism, Peace Studies, Politics of Society, and Children's Books.

Bookstore at Busboys and Poets in Washington, D.C. 

Our bookstore, located in the Washington, D.C. metro area, features hard to find educational resources, children books, literature, poetry, biographies, and political titles with a social justice theme.

Zinn Education Project

The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the use of A People’s History of the United States in middle and high school classrooms across the country. We believe that through taking a more engaging and more honest look at the past, we can help equip students with the analytical tools to make sense of — and improve — the world today. The project, coordinated jointly with Rethinking Schools, has its own website: www.zinnedproject.org.   Photo by Steve Puppe.

Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves

We are pleased to provide an on-line resource guide aligned with the chapters in Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves by Louise Derman-Sparks and Julie Olsen Edwards. 

In addition to the book's chapters, we have listed resources for additional anti-bias themes and topics.

Books Published by Teaching for Change

Caribbean Connections Series
Teaching for Change developed this 6-book series, featuring the following titles: The Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Overview of Regional History, and Moving North, to bring the diverse history and culture of the Caribbean experience into the classroom.

 

Beyond Heroes and Holidays

This widely used interdisciplinary guide for teachers, administrators, students, and parents offers lessons and readings that show how to: analyze the roots of racism; investigate the impact of racism on all our lives, our families, and our communities; examine the relationship between racism and other forms of oppression such as sexism, classism, and heterosexism; and learn to work to dismantle racism in our schools, communities, and the wider society. Beyond Heroes and Holidays has sold over 45,000 copies to date and is used as a core text in college courses across the country.

Putting the Movement Back Into Civil Rights Teaching
As one of the most commonly taught stories of people’s struggles for social justice, the Civil Rights Movement has the capacity to help students develop a critical analysis of United States history and strategies for change. However, the empowering potential is often lost in a trivial pursuit of names and dates. Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching, published by Teaching for Change and PRRAC, provides lessons and articles for K-12 educators on how to go beyond a heroes approach to the Civil Rights Movement. 

 

Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching won the 2004 Philip C. Chinn Multicultural Book Award by the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME).

More Teaching for Change publications here.

Catalog 1993-2009

For over 16 years we carefully selected titles to feature in the Teaching for Change catalog to ensure that pre-K - 12 teachers had resources to build social justice, starting in the classroom. In February of 2009 we closed our own online catalog. However, we are still able to promote many of the same progressive lists and titles through a webstore connected to our bookstore: http://bbpbooks.teachingforchange.org/