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Here is a selection of past newsletters and announcements.

2021 (Teaching Central America)

• Share Your Teaching Story (October 2021)
• Teach About El Salvador (October 2021)
• It’s Teach Central America Week! (October 2021)
• Launch of Teach Central America Week and Workshop Invitation (October 2021)
• Teach About Nicaragua (September 2021)
• Teach About Honduras (September 2021)
• Teach About Guatemala (September 2021)
• Teach Central America Week: October 4-10, 2021 (September 2021)
• Resources for Teaching During Latinx Heritage Month (September 2021)

2019

• Challenge Islamophobia with New Lessons (September 2019)
• Resources for Teaching During Latinx Heritage Month (September 2019)
• Social Justice Teaching Resources for the New School Year (September 2019)
• Teach Central America Week: October 7-13, 2019 (August 2019)
• Join us in D.C. for an Indigenous Peoples’ Day Curriculum Teach-In (August 2019)
• What do you teach about Central America? (May 2019) 
• Teach Climate Justice: New Lessons for the Classroom (April 2019)
• New Website: Story of the Virginia Interscholastic Association (VIA) (March 2019)
• New Lessons to Challenge Islamophobia (March 2019)
• New Lessons to Challenge Islamophobia (February 2019)
• Teachers Depend on Teaching for Change (January 2019)
• Challenge Islamophobia with Grassroots Education (January 2019)

2015

• New Multicultural Children’s Books (October, 2015)
• Facing Gentrification in Schools (September, 2015)
• Bring Go-Go into D.C. Area Classrooms (August, 2015)
• Civil Rights Movement: Lessons and Legacy (August, 2015)
• 10 Things You Should Know about the Voting Rights Act (August, 2015)
• New Recommended Summer Reading Titles (July, 2015)
• Teaching Young Children About Race (July, 2015)
• Not the NY Times Summer Reading List (June, 2015)
• Support Learning Beyond Heroes and Holidays (June, 2015)
• My school has no walls and doors, and leaking ceilings (May, 2015)
• Lessons for Earth Day, Eduardo Galeano ¡Presente! (April, 2015)
• Teaching #BlackLivesMatter; Octavia’s Brood; Bookstore Memories; and more (April, 2015)
• High stakes testing boycot, new recommended books, and more (March, 2015)
• “Our Shining Prince” Teaching Malcolm X (February, 2015)
• Selma, Civil Rights, and Black History Resources for the Classroom (February, 2015)
• “Doing the Right Thing for Children,” Selma, and more (January, 2015)
• Inspiring Stories and Photos from 2014 (January, 2015)

2014

• Help Us Make Rush Limbaugh Mad Again in 2015 (December, 2014)
• A Brilliant Response to a Racist “Joke” (December, 2014)
• Victory in Ward 8! Parents Win Big for Their Kids (December, 2014)
• Best Social Justice Books of 2014 (November, 2014)
• Yes! We’re going to keep making Rush Limbaugh mad. (November, 2014)
• Latino Heritage Month: Put Central America on the Map in Schools (September, 2014)
• Meet Naomi Klein, Charles Cobb Jr., Duncan Tonatiuh, and more (September, 2014)
• True Teacher Stories and Central America Resources for Schools (September, 2014)
• “I question America.” — Fannie Lou Hamer, MFDP 50th Anniversary (August, 2014)
• Bringing Central America and Gaza into the Classroom (August, 2014)
• The Crisis is Bigger than Limbaugh (June 2014)
• Rush Limbaugh Calls Teaching for Change Racist for Promoting Diverse Children’s Books (June 2014)
• Where are the People of Color in Children’s Books? Spring at Teaching for Change (May 2014)
• Black History is U.S. History—All Year Long (February 2014)

2013

• Don’t miss 2013 highlights of building social justice starting in the classroom (December 2013)
• Shedding New Light on the Movement and More (October 2013)
• Latino/Hispanic Heritage Month: Put Central America on the Map in Schools (September 2013)
• Did You Know? 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (August 2013)
• Baseball and Social Justice Meet in 2013 (April 2013)
• Teaching Clemente, Go-Go Music, Voting Rights, and More (April 2013)
• Teaching 1963 Beyond I Have a Dream (February 2013)

2012

• What Teachers Need – And How You Can Help (October 2012)
• See What’s New: Back to School with Teaching For Change (September 2012)
• You’re Invited: Poetry, Politics, Live Music, History, and Humor (September 2012)
• What Kids Aren’t Learning and Why We’re Teaching Out LOUD (April 2012)
• Special Invitation: ‘What Kids Aren’t Learning” at Busboys and Poets (February 2012)
• Black History: Don’t Just Celebrate — Educate! (February 2012)

2011

• Social Justice in Education? Here are Two Examples (December 2011)
• StoryCorps Partners with Teaching for Change (December 2011)
• What Every Student Needs (December 2011)
• What the Textbooks Don’t Say: Students Learn the Truth about the ’68 Olympics and the (In)famous Salute (December 2011)
• Teaching for Change with StoryCorps, Schomburg Center, Cornell West, and more (November 2011)
• Teaching About People’s Uprisings and More (May 2011)

 2010

• What kind of change do YOU want to see in schools? (December 2010)
• Parents and Teachers Fight Back! From Haiti to DC and Beyond (December 2010)
• Building Social Justice, Starting in the Classroom (November 2010)
• Teaching for Change Turns 20! (Spring 2010)

2009-2007

• Zinn Education Project News (February 2009)
• Support Teaching for Change (December 2008)
• News from Teaching for Change  (April 2007)