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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 …
Teach Truth Days of Action 2022
Teachers and allies across the country pledged to teach truth on June 11 and 12, 2022. They made their pledges at historic sites to provide examples of the history that teachers would be required to lie about or omit if the GOP anti-history bills become law. Teachers planned these activities at the end of another unbelievably challenging school …
Teach the Black Freedom Struggle Online Classes
Thousands of teachers and students have attended the Zinn Education Project’s online classes with people’s historians. These classes offer the chance to learn directly from leading historians and to meet peers from across the country. The classes are held at least once a month (now, generally on Mondays) at 4:00 pm PT / 7:00 pm …
Share Teach Central America Story: Receive a Book
In support of Teach Central America Week, a number of publishers donated titles by Central American authors and/or about Central America as gifts for educators who share teaching stories. We extend our appreciation to the following publishers for their generous support of Teach Central America Week. Groundwood Books Aquí era es Paraíso/Here was Paradise by …