An artist and academic writes about art builds — how they are practices of resistance and solidarity, and celebrations of joy and justice to fuel the teachers’ rebellion and other movements.
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Reading, Writing, and Rising Up - 2nd Edition
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Teaching for Black Lives
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Rethinking Ethnic Studies
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The New Teacher Book
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Teaching a People's History of Abolition and the Civil War
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A People's Curriculum for the Earth
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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
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RETHINKING SCHOOLS MAGAZINE
The Coronavirus and Our Work
First, we hope that you are safe and healthy. This is a stressful and frightening time for everyone, and the uncertainty of where the coronavirus pandemic is headed adds to our anxiety. Our schools are closing. Our conferences have been canceled. Our communities are under emergency alert. We are told to practice “social distancing” to prevent the spread of the virus. And that is right — from a public health standpoint. But we cannot allow “social distancing” to be a metaphor for how we respond to this crisis and the profound social failure it reflects. This crisis threatens to amplify inequality in countless ways, and more than ever, we need to...
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Volume 34, No. 3 — Spring 2020 Table of Contents
Cover Stories
From the Art Build to the Streets
Examining the Role of Art During the Chicago Teachers Strike
The author of A People’s Art History of the United States dissects the imagery unions created and used in the streets and on the picket lines during the 2019 Chicago teachers strike.
Features
Three Iranian educators, scholars, and parents write about how we need to refuse narratives that normalize empire and dehumanize whole populations.
A high school social studies teacher argues for rethinking how we teach civics so that students learn that organizing, activism, and civil disobedience are as important as the Constitution.
Instructional Time
Teaching Beyond Tolerance
A transgender middle school teacher wrestles with a school and community that tries to hide their identity.
A teacher-librarian and parent writes about Louise Erdrich’s Birchbark series and how its stories of Indigenous life compare with the colonialism and racism of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books.
Youth vs. Apocalypse
Oakland Students Make Time to Change the World
A high school English teacher reorients his classroom to be a space for student organizing for climate justice.
Departments
Editorial
