Unlearning the Myths that Bind Us
Critiquing cartoons and society
Students analyze cartoons from Popeye to Brave to see how media teaches children white- and male-supremacist ideas.
Rethinking Bilingual Education
Edited By Elizabeth Barbian, Grace Cornell Gonzales, Pilar Mejia
Rethinking Bilingual Education is an exciting new collection of articles about bringing students’ home languages into...
Reading, Writing, and Rising Up - 2nd Edition
Edited By Linda Christensen
Shipping by June 2017 Pre-Order Now! For more than a decade, teachers have looked to Reading, Writing,...
A People's Curriculum for the Earth
Edited By Bill Bigelow, Tim Swinehart
Five years in the making, A People’s Curriculum for the Earth is a collection of articles,...
Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality
Edited By Annika Butler-Wall, Kim Cosier, Rachel Harper, Jeff Sapp, Jody Sokolower, Melissa Bollow Tempel
Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality is a collection of inspiring stories about how to integrate feminist...
Rhythm and Resistance
Edited By Linda Christensen, Dyan Watson
Offering practical lessons about how to teach poetry to build community, understand literature and history, talk...
Planning To Change the World 2017-2018
Edited By Gretchen Brion-Meisels, Thomas Nikundiwe, Carla Shalaby
Shipping by June 2017Pre-Order and Save Now! Pre-order special: Order 1-9 and use code "PLCH181" to...
Rethinking Bilingual Education
Edited By Elizabeth Barbian, Grace Cornell Gonzales, Pilar Mejia
Rethinking Bilingual Education is an exciting new collection of articles about bringing students’ home languages into...
Reading, Writing, and Rising Up - 2nd Edition
Edited By Linda Christensen
Shipping by June 2017 Pre-Order Now! For more than a decade, teachers have looked to Reading, Writing,...
A People's Curriculum for the Earth
Edited By Bill Bigelow, Tim Swinehart
Five years in the making, A People’s Curriculum for the Earth is a collection of articles,...
Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality
Edited By Annika Butler-Wall, Kim Cosier, Rachel Harper, Jeff Sapp, Jody Sokolower, Melissa Bollow Tempel
Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality is a collection of inspiring stories about how to integrate feminist...
Rhythm and Resistance
Edited By Linda Christensen, Dyan Watson
Offering practical lessons about how to teach poetry to build community, understand literature and history, talk...
Planning To Change the World 2017-2018
Edited By Gretchen Brion-Meisels, Thomas Nikundiwe, Carla Shalaby
Shipping by June 2017Pre-Order and Save Now! Pre-order special: Order 1-9 and use code "PLCH181" to...
Rethinking Bilingual Education
Edited By Elizabeth Barbian, Grace Cornell Gonzales, Pilar Mejia
Rethinking Bilingual Education is an exciting new collection of articles about bringing students’ home languages into...
Reading, Writing, and Rising Up - 2nd Edition
Edited By Linda Christensen
Shipping by June 2017 Pre-Order Now! For more than a decade, teachers have looked to Reading, Writing,...
A People's Curriculum for the Earth
Edited By Bill Bigelow, Tim Swinehart
Five years in the making, A People’s Curriculum for the Earth is a collection of articles,...
Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality
Edited By Annika Butler-Wall, Kim Cosier, Rachel Harper, Jeff Sapp, Jody Sokolower, Melissa Bollow Tempel
Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality is a collection of inspiring stories about how to integrate feminist...
Rhythm and Resistance
Edited By Linda Christensen, Dyan Watson
Offering practical lessons about how to teach poetry to build community, understand literature and history, talk...
Planning To Change the World 2017-2018
Edited By Gretchen Brion-Meisels, Thomas Nikundiwe, Carla Shalaby
Shipping by June 2017Pre-Order and Save Now! Pre-order special: Order 1-9 and use code "PLCH181" to...
RETHINKING SCHOOLS MAGAZINE
Standing with Standing Rock
A role play on the Dakota Access Pipeline
Like many teachers, I use my summers to fill gaps in my knowledge and curriculum. Last summer, I took a weeklong course with Colin Calloway on Native American history. He demanded two things of us: 1. that we not accept the inevitability of “what happened” and 2. that our historical analysis and curricula include Indian people as full participants in their own histories and in the history of the United States. As Calloway writes, “American history without Indians is mythology—it never happened.” When I reflected honestly on my own U.S. history and government curriculum, I decided that on No. 1, I was doing a passable job. But on No. 2, I...
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Volume 31, No.3 - Spring 2017 Table of Contents
Features
A middle school teacher describes the trauma experienced by his students over the year and struggles to create meaningful hope rather than slogans.
"I See Birds Everywhere I Go"
Engaging urban students in the natural world
A science teacher in Washington, D.C., overcomes her students’ fear of nature by turning them into avid birdwatchers.
Advocating for Arabic
An interview with Lara Kiswani
The executive director of San Francisco’s Arab Resource and Organizing Center describes the successes and obstacles for a community-based campaign to offer Arabic language instruction in the district’s schools.
Sara Holbrook’s poems appear on the Texas STARR tests. Her efforts to answer the questions about her own poetry expose the narrowness of standardized testing.
Trapdoors
High school exit testing in the age of “college and career readiness”
Using the experience of high school exit testing in New Jersey as an example, Stan Karp analyzes the gross negative impact of these high-stakes tests on students and schools.
How the edTPA Disrupts Relationships
Reclaiming our visions and integrity
The edTPA has become a credentialing requirement in many states. Its implementation has distorted relationships throughout teacher education.
Departments
Education Action
Good Stuff
