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Indigenous Central America Educator Workshop Highlights and Resources
On November 9, 2022, Teaching Central America, a project of Teaching for Change, hosted an educator workshop focused on Indigenous Central America to provide teachers with strategies and resources for introducing the Indigenous history of Central America in their classroom. Participants explored the Quiche Maya ancestral story, including the Popol Vuh and the Maya origin …
Hundreds Participate in 2022 Teach Central America Week
Teaching for Change hosted the fourth annual Teach Central America Week from October 3–9, 2022. Educators from 38 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and Costa Rica signed up to participate and organizations across the country endorsed the week. In support of this important week, a number of publishers donated titles by Central American authors …
Get Ready for Giving Tuesday
To kick off #GivingTuesday the Teaching for Change board (current and past) has donated a lead gift of $3,300 to celebrate 33 years of Teaching for Change! Now it’s your turn to help us meet our goal of raising $10,000 on #GivingTuesday, November 29, 2022. Here’s how you can support Teaching for Change on #GivingTuesday, …
More Than Condolences, My Late Husband Needs You To Vote
We are re-posting this moving editorial by Shirley Sherrod with the hopes it will be widely read and lead more people to the polls. We also also encourage everyone to check out the work of the SNCC Legacy Project to learn about the history and ongoing activism referenced in the article. By Shirley Miller Sherrod …
New Study About White Supremacy and Anti-Black Racism in the Virginia History Curriculum
A new study co-authored by Teaching for Change board member Tiffany Mitchell Patterson, Teaching for Change volunteer Chris Seeger, and researcher Maria Gabriela Paz seeks to better understand how white supremacy and anti-Black racism are portrayed in the Virginia U.S. history standards. The study, Reckoning with white supremacy and anti-Black racism in the Virginia US …
Indigenous Central America Educator Workshop
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9 | 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM ET (4:00 PM – 6:15 PM PT) Many students in U.S. classrooms can trace their roots to El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, as well as other Central American countries, yet the history of the region is largely absent from U.S. curriculum. There is even less regional-specific …
2022 Indigenous Peoples’ Day Curriculum Teach-In Highlights
On Saturday, October 1, 2022, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) and Teaching for Change hosted an online teach-in with the theme sovereignty and treaties. More than 400 teachers from all over the United States and some internationally attended the keynote by Rebecca Nagle (Cherokee) and two rounds of interactive workshops featuring …
Books for Latinx Heritage Month
Latinx Heritage Month is September 15 – October 15. Below find booklists to help educators address Latinx topics that are often left out of the textbook, such as the history and literature of Central America. Booklists for Latinx/Hispanic Heritage Month Latinx and Latin America Afro-Latinx Central America Spanish / Bilingual Book for Free Download …
Social Justice Curriculum Fair
On Saturday, August 20, more than 100 educators from across the D.C. area convened at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library for the inaugural DCAESJ Social Justice Curriculum Fair. This fair was an opportunity for pre-K-12 educators from the D.C. area to connect in person while exploring curriculum aligned with various social justice themes. …
New Teaching Central America Program Specialist
Join us in welcoming our new program specialist for our Teaching Central America campaign, Jonathan Peraza Campos. He is passionate about this work. Here is why, I did not grow up with a grasp of my history and my identity and my culture. It is something that was denied to me because of war trauma …