Month: August 2025| Rethinking Schools
Rethinking Schools is honored to announce that Teaching Palestine: Lessons, Stories, Voices was named a 2025 Skipping Stones Book Award recipient. Palestine has long been one of the great silences […] The post Teaching Palestine Named 2025 Skipping Stones Honor Award Winner appeared first on Rethinking Schools.| Rethinking Schools
Rethinking Schools is thrilled to announce Transgender Justice in Schools, co-edited by Linda Christensen and Ty Marshall, has been awarded a 2024 Foreword INDIES Silver Book of the Year Award, […]| Rethinking Schools
Palestine has long been one of the great silences in the official curriculum. Teaching Palestine: Lessons, Stories, Voices provides educators with powerful tools to uncover the history and current context […]| Rethinking Schools
A Palestinian American elementary teacher provides guidelines for adults in conversations with young children about Gaza.| Rethinking Schools
Sanchez describes how pro-Israel activists are bringing the war on teaching truth into blue cities like Philadelphia.| Rethinking Schools
An early elementary teacher details an engineering unit. Students design a model community — with no police or banks — in which everyone gets what they need.| Rethinking Schools
We are thrilled to share that Bob Peterson, co-founder of Rethinking Schools and member of the editorial board and Board of Directors, has been honored with the Tony Baez Lifetime […]| Rethinking Schools
“Over the past 21 months of war, more than 17,000 children have reportedly been killed and 33,000 injured in Gaza,” UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell recently told the United Nations […] The post Rethinking Schools’ open letter to the NEA on the leadership’s decision to overturn the democratic vote of the members to drop the ADL appeared first on Rethinking Schools.| Rethinking Schools
Writing can be a transformative tool for community-building and activism. Join Rethinking Schools and D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice for a three-day, in-person writers’ workshop in Washington, D.C. This workshop invites […] The post Writing for Publication: D.C. Writing Workshop appeared first on Rethinking Schools.| Rethinking Schools
More than 800 educators from across the country convened in Portland, Oregon, from June 29-July 1 to learn, strategize, and organize for racial and social justice in classrooms and communities. […] The post NEA Conference on Racial and Social Justice appeared first on Rethinking Schools.| Rethinking Schools
Rethinking Schools is pleased to announce Transgender Justice in Schools, co-edited by Linda Christensen and Ty Marshall, has been recognized as a finalist in the 27th annual Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards. “We crafted Transgender […] The post Transgender Justice in Schools Was Named a 2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist appeared first on Rethinking Schools.| Rethinking Schools
Dear Rethinking Schools Teach Climate Justice friends, What a time. This is a brief installment to alert you to a couple of new articles. Thanks for your important work at […] The post Strike for the Climate! appeared first on Rethinking Schools.| Rethinking Schools
Rethinking Schools is a nonprofit publisher and advocacy organization dedicated to sustaining and strengthening public education through social justice teaching and education activism. Our magazine, books, and other resources promote equity and racial justice […] The post Start a Study Group appeared first on Rethinking Schools.| Rethinking Schools
The New Jersey Education Association, with more than 200,000 members, is the second largest state association in the NEA, behind California. It has long been recognized as a powerful force […] The post NJEA Partnership appeared first on Rethinking Schools.| Rethinking Schools
Rethinking Schools is a nonprofit publisher and advocacy organization dedicated to sustaining and strengthening public education through social justice teaching and education activism.| Rethinking Schools
What makes public education so dangerous is that it is grounded in hope. As the editors of our forthcoming Teaching Palestine: Lessons, Stories, Voices write, “one of the wonderful things […]| Rethinking Schools
Drawing inspiration from the 1972 National Black Political Convention in Gary, Indiana, New Jersey students and teachers organize a convention to discuss issues facing Black communities today.| Rethinking Schools
A high school social studies teacher discusses ways to teach the rich history of multiracial, community-based environmental organizing in the United States.| Rethinking Schools
Bigelow recommends 10 essential elements of a robust climate justice curriculum.| Rethinking Schools
A Black elementary teacher recounts her experience as a caregiver in an IEP meeting.| Rethinking Schools
Check out these valuable resources, reviewed by Rethinking Schools editors and Teaching for Change colleagues.| Rethinking Schools
Teaching for Black Lives grows directly out of the movement for Black lives. We recognize that anti-Black racism constructs Black people, and Blackness generally, as not counting as human life. […]| Rethinking Schools
