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  • Teaching Central America

    Teach Central America Week is October 2–6, 2023. To help educators teach about the rich history and culture of Central America — and the long history of U.S. involvement in the region — we have compiled free lessons, booklists, biographies, and more.

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  • Social Justice Books

    The best selection of multicultural and social justice books for children, young adults, and educators.

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  • Zinn Education Project

    Teaching for Change and Rethinking Schools collaborate to bring a people’s history to the classroom.

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  • Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action

    From February 5–9, 2024, Teaching for Change’s D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice will collaborate on the seventh annual D.C. Area Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action.

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  • Civil Rights Teaching

    Our book “Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching” and companion website emphasize the power of people through a diversity of stories, perspectives, essays, photographs, graphics, interviews, and interactive and interdisciplinary lessons.

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  • D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice 

    Join the D.C. area network of educators who seek to strengthen and deepen social justice teaching.

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  • Resistance 101: A Lesson on Social Justice Activists and Strategies

    A lesson to introduce students to people throughout U.S. history, including many young people, who fought for social justice and civic change using a range of strategies.

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  • Challenge Islamophobia

    Lessons that teach all of us to rethink what we know about the history of Muslims in the U.S., including the fact that Islamophobia is rooted in a history of racism.

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