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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 …
Celebrate 100 Years of Howard Zinn with Books
The year 2022 marks the 100th anniversary of Howard Zinn’s birth on August 24, 1922, in Brooklyn. At Teaching for Change, our work has and continues to be informed by Zinn’s scholarship in many ways. Zinn was an advisor for the first edition of our book, Putting the Movement Back Into Civil Rights Teaching. Along with Rethinking …
The Disempowering Impact of the Little People, BIG DREAMS Series
Social Justice Books team member Paige Pagan wrote a critique of the widely distributed Little People, BIG DREAMS picture book series. Published in the Summer 2022 issue of Rethinking Schools, the article begins, Enter the children’s section in any bookstore or library and you are bound to see a display of titles from the Little People, BIG …
New Book by Allyson Criner Brown: Engagement for Equitable Outcomes
Allyson Criner Brown, former Teaching for Change associate director, is the co-author of a new book, Engagement for Equitable Outcomes: A Practitioner’s Playbook. Teaching for Change co-sponsored a family-friendly book launch event on Memorial Day weekend at Oxon Run Park in Washington, D.C. along with the Ward 8 Education Council and Friends of Oxon Run …