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We look forward to seeing you at our Teach the Black Freedom Struggle classes in 2024. Register today. We also ask you to donate so that more teachers receive free people's history lessons and we can defend their right to teach outside the textbook.

January 20

Black Lives Matter at School

DC Area Online Curriculum Fair

The D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice will host a virtual curriculum fair featuring keynote speaker Dr. Enid Lee and workshops set to uplift the national demands based in the Black Lives Matter guiding principles that focus on the school experience of Black students.

We invite educators around the country to connect virtually and prepare for the 2024 National Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action (February 5–9) and Year of Purpose.

February 29

NCSS Proposal Deadline

Apply to present a workshop at the 2024 National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) conference in Boston on Nov. 22–24. Or apply to review proposals. The more people's history educators reviewing and presenting workshops the better! Read more.

Historian Matthew Delmont’s book, Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad, chronicles the lives of African Americans who fought in the war — and against racism in the United States.

Thanks to a generous donation by the author and Dartmouth College, the Zinn Education Project is offering 10,000 copies of the new paperback edition, to be released in January, to public school teachers, school librarians, and teacher educators, who share a plan for using the text. Limited copies remain. Submit your request today.

New Book

Rethinking Multicultural Education

Order a copy for your school library, teacher education program, a gift for friends and colleagues, and/or for yourself. Watch the engaging book launch with authors and contributors.

One cannot understand the terrible events in the Middle East without acknowledging the history. As educators, our role is to help students grasp and analyze this history. But those who seek to share this story are being silenced. In the war on Gaza and Palestine, the Israeli military have killed dozens of journalists, including many of those pictured below. Administrators in the United States are reprimanding and even suspending teachers for raising questions about the attacks on Palestine or for expressing support for Palestinians.

Journalists killed in Israel's war against Palestine. Art by Gianluca Costantini See more.

Many education groups provide resources for teaching about the crisis as a “conflict” rooted in antisemitism and Islamophobia. However, that sole emphasis is misleading. Students need to study how the current crisis is shaped in large part by settler colonial history, land, water, conditions of apartheid, and the geopolitical motivations of world powers. 

We offer a growing collection of resources to help students learn the roots of the current crisis, including lessons and articles from Rethinking Schools, books for K–12, podcasts, calls to action, and infographics.

Along with the vast majority of people in the world, we add our voice to the call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

Included in the resources listed above is a Social Justice Books collection of recommended books for K–12 about Palestine.

Please donate so that we can continue to offer free people’s history lessons and resources, and defend teachers’ right to use them.

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