Black Lives Matter at School: From the Week of Action to Year-Round Anti-Racist Pedagogy and Protest
Every social justice educator should make building the BLM at School Week of Action during the first week of February a top priority.
Rethinking Bilingual Education
Edited By Elizabeth Barbian, Grace 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
Authored By Linda Christensen
For almost two decades, teachers have looked to Reading, Writing, and Rising Up as a trusted...
Teaching for Black Lives
Edited By Dyan Watson, Jesse Hagopian, Wayne Au
Teaching for Black Lives grows directly out of the movement for Black lives. We recognize that...
Rethinking Ethnic Studies
Edited By R. Tolteka Cuauhtin, Miguel Zavala, Christine Sleeter, Wayne Au
As part of a growing nationwide movement to bring Ethnic Studies into K–12 classrooms, Rethinking Ethnic...
The New Teacher Book
Edited By Linda Christensen, Stan Karp, Bob Peterson, Moé Yonamine
Newly revised and expanded third edition! This expanded third edition of The New Teacher Book grew...
Teaching a People's History of Abolition and the Civil War
Edited By Adam Sanchez
Teaching a People’s History of Abolition and the Civil War is a collection of 10 classroom-tested...
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...
Rethinking Bilingual Education
Edited By Elizabeth Barbian, Grace 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
Authored By Linda Christensen
For almost two decades, teachers have looked to Reading, Writing, and Rising Up as a trusted...
Teaching for Black Lives
Edited By Dyan Watson, Jesse Hagopian, Wayne Au
Teaching for Black Lives grows directly out of the movement for Black lives. We recognize that...
Rethinking Ethnic Studies
Edited By R. Tolteka Cuauhtin, Miguel Zavala, Christine Sleeter, Wayne Au
As part of a growing nationwide movement to bring Ethnic Studies into K–12 classrooms, Rethinking Ethnic...
The New Teacher Book
Edited By Linda Christensen, Stan Karp, Bob Peterson, Moé Yonamine
Newly revised and expanded third edition! This expanded third edition of The New Teacher Book grew...
Teaching a People's History of Abolition and the Civil War
Edited By Adam Sanchez
Teaching a People’s History of Abolition and the Civil War is a collection of 10 classroom-tested...
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...
Rethinking Bilingual Education
Edited By Elizabeth Barbian, Grace 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
Authored By Linda Christensen
For almost two decades, teachers have looked to Reading, Writing, and Rising Up as a trusted...
Teaching for Black Lives
Edited By Dyan Watson, Jesse Hagopian, Wayne Au
Teaching for Black Lives grows directly out of the movement for Black lives. We recognize that...
Rethinking Ethnic Studies
Edited By R. Tolteka Cuauhtin, Miguel Zavala, Christine Sleeter, Wayne Au
As part of a growing nationwide movement to bring Ethnic Studies into K–12 classrooms, Rethinking Ethnic...
The New Teacher Book
Edited By Linda Christensen, Stan Karp, Bob Peterson, Moé Yonamine
Newly revised and expanded third edition! This expanded third edition of The New Teacher Book grew...
Teaching a People's History of Abolition and the Civil War
Edited By Adam Sanchez
Teaching a People’s History of Abolition and the Civil War is a collection of 10 classroom-tested...
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...
RETHINKING SCHOOLS MAGAZINE
The Largest Civil Rights Protest You've Never Heard Of
Teaching the 1964 New York City school boycott
For the complete lesson plan and classroom materials that accompany this article, click here or go to bit.ly/CivilRightsProtestLessonPlan. “Selma!” “Birmingham!” “Washington, D.C.!” Struggling to remember their Southern geography, my students slowly rattled off cities that came to mind. I had asked them “Where did the largest civil rights protest of the 1960s take place?” Their answers, building off of the traditional civil rights narrative they had learned in elementary and middle school, mostly consisted of Southern cities. They were wrong. The real answer is New York City, where most of my students were born and raised. This, of course, was no shock to me. Despite obligatory coverage of the Civil Rights Movement...
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Volume 34, No. 2 — Winter 2019-20 Table of Contents
Free Editorial
Features
Doing Race Talk with Teachers
How to stay in the conversation
A teacher-educator describes how she keeps her students talking about race, even when it's uncomfortable — and shows how those conversations make better teachers.
Widening the Digital Learning Gap
A San Francisco middle school grapples with a tech company "partnership"
A San Francisco teacher-librarian describes what happened when Verizon came to her school bearing gifts.
A 2nd-grade teacher shows how connecting a student's home to the classroom led to profound lessons for all her students — in this case, about pipelines and climate justice.
Oogenesis? Heterozygous? Science vocabulary can be difficult for students, especially English language learners. A science teacher describes how she reorients science classrooms to make vocabulary accessible.
A Palestinian American mother describes the alienation that she felt in school, and how she draws on her experiences to imagine the schooling she wants for her children.
Departments
Commentary
Teacher Unions Take on the Climate Crisis
Column: Earth, Justice, and Our Classrooms
Ed Alert
"We Did What Had to Be Done"
A Milwaukee student responds to critics of a mural about ICE that she and a group of teenagers legally painted on a county bus
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