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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 …
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 …
Women’s History Month: A Book Every Day
In honor of Women’s History Month, each day Social Justice Books is featuring a children’s book we recommend to highlight grassroots women’s history in the United States. We begin the month with Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement about the life of Fannie Lou Hamer. Beautifully written and illustrated, it is one …
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 …
What Are Students Learning About Reconstruction?
Reconstruction was a time of immense possibility for economic equity and progress for multiracial democracy. White supremacists crushed this promise. Today, it is suppressed in K–12 education and public memory. Our Zinn Education Project (with Rethinking Schools) just released a new report, Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle: How State Standards Fail to Teach the Truth About …
Howard Zinn Centennial
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 helped launch the Zinn Education Project in 2008, which we coordinate along with Rethinking Schools. Zinn was an advisor for …
Publishers Donate Books for Black Lives Matter at School 2022
Dozens of educators who attended the 2022 Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action Curriculum Fair received free books thanks to the generosity of publishers listed below who donated titles related to the Black Lives Matter 13 Principles. We still have more books to give away to D.C. area teachers and Teaching for Black …
Joy in the Resistance
In the last two years, we’ve seen a massive increase in demand for our resources. We’ve also seen a widespread right-wing backlash, as GOP lawmakers ban teaching the truth. In 2022 we will: Expand our resources for teaching about Central America, the Civil Rights Movement, go-go, people’s history, and more. Increase professional learning opportunities for …