Here are new resources for teaching people’s history and upcoming events.
New Issue from Rethinking Schools
The summer issue of Rethinking Schools is a special, longer issue that focuses on teaching and learning in the pandemic. In their editorial, “The Fight of Our Lives,” Rethinking Schools editors describe the summer issue as “a lamentation, but it is also a celebration — and a call to action.”
New Guide: People's History Lessons for Stamped, YA Edition
This is NOT a history book.
This is a book about the here and now.
A book to help us better understand why we are where we are.
A book about race.
We are thrilled that teachers across the country are meeting, collaborating, and building curriculum based on
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi. This YA book is based on Kendi’s 2016
Stamped from the Beginning.
We hope educators supplement these texts with an equally rich people’s history of racism and antiracism.
This year is on track to be the hottest year in recorded history. The climate crisis has not paused for the pandemic nor for police violence and racial inequality. In fact, these struggles all connect.
Teachers must ask: What is our role — and the role of the curriculum — in preparing students to confront these emergencies and those to come?
Who Gets to Vote? Teaching About the Struggle for Voting Rights in the United States
A
unit with three lessons by Ursula Wolfe-Rocca provides essential historical context for the contemporary struggle against voter suppression and for voting rights in the United States. These lessons can be taught individually or in progression.
Teaching the Radical
Rosa Parks
In
this mixer activity by Bill Bigelow every student portrays a different rebellious incident in Mrs. Rosa Parks’ life. By sharing stories with each other, students pry behind the "she was just tired" myth and learn about Rosa Parks' many decades of activism.
This offer is made possible thanks to a generous donation of books by the author, who documents the long and ongoing struggle for voting rights in the United States for young adults.
Join Teaching for Black Lives co-editors Dyan Watson, Jesse Hagopian, and Wayne Au for an urgent discussion on teaching and organizing for racial and economic justice in our schools during the rebellion. Registration is free. The conversation will be held on Zoom and a link will be emailed to you after registering.
This event is hosted by Rethinking Schools and sponsored by Teaching for Change.
Journal of the Civil War Era Offers Free Webinars and Articles on Racial Justice
The
Journal of the Civil War Era offers two free resources this summer that may be of interest to U.S. history teachers: a
series of four webinars and open access to
articles that speak directly to issues of race, politics, and justice.
