We hope you are doing ok during this unbelievably difficult period of time. We’ve been heartened by all the stories of great teaching and activism about what’s happening in Gaza and throughout Palestine, but it’s taking a toll on all of us. We’re excited to share new resources that we hope will support you and| Teach Palestine | Teaching Educators How to Teach Palestine
for Learning More about the War on Gaza Download a PDF of this Resource List . As the war on Gaza intensifies, we’re watching in horror as an unimaginable catastrophe catapults forward. As teachers, we know we need to help our students discuss and try to make sense of what’s happening. This is both difficult and critical| Teach Palestine | Teaching Educators How to Teach Palestine
10 min. Shoruq and MECA Arabic with English subtitles. Shoruq, a cultural and community center in Dheisheh Refugee Camp near Bethlehem, took Palestinian youth to visit their ancestral villages. Sarah Faraj was one such youth, and her livestream of her visit is seen by Aya, a teenager living in Gaza. Aya asks Sarah to visit her ancestral village, Al Jura, located a few miles north of the Gaza Strip. Ayat surprises her grandmother, Um Nabeel, with a video call with Sarah, who takes them on a li...| Teach Palestine | Teaching Educators How to Teach Palestine
Dear Teach Palestine Project family, Although this has been a rough fall to be a teacher—all the pedagogical, emotional, and physical stresses of teaching while still in the midst of a pandemic—we hope you’re finding joy in being back in the classroom with students and that you’re staying healthy. The right-wing attacks on teaching Palestine,| Teach Palestine | Teaching Educators How to Teach Palestine
Photo shows: Children at Al-Maleh school demonstrate for their right to an education. October 25, 2021, Israeli occupation forces raided Al-Maleh school in the northern Jordan Valley and demolished a new building under construction. The Al-Maleh school was built at the end of 2020 as part of the Right to Education Campaign. The small school has only four| Teach Palestine | Teaching Educators How to Teach Palestine
The current attacks on Critical Race Theory (CRT) are a terrifying indication of the rabid racism of the right wing. CRT isn’t an abstract idea for graduate students. Authentic Ethnic Studies, all anti-racist education, is based in CRT. When elementary school teachers have their students write counter-narratives about the strengths of their communities, they’re teaching CRT. When middle school teachers compare “Manifest Destiny” in the US to the “Promised Land” in Israel as ideolo...| Teach Palestine | Teaching Educators How to Teach Palestine
We hope that you are about to have a chance to relax and recuperate from an immensely challenging school year. The past couple of months have been intense. We’ve seen the escalation in both resistance and repression in Palestine, and an explosion of solidarity across the United States and the rest of the world. The current round of demonstrations throughout Palestine was spurred by mounting Israeli efforts to expel long-time Palestinian residents of Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan in Jerusalem. Th...| Teach Palestine | Teaching Educators How to Teach Palestine
We know you share our outrage at attacks by the Israeli military and settlers against the people of Palestine. And that you join us in expressing our solidarity in every way we can. This is a particularly critical time to be teaching about Palestine. Don’t hesitate to contact us at the Teach Palestine Project if we can help with curriculum development, resources, or information. One resource about Sheikh Jarrah is the video My Neighborhood, which is about resistance and solidarity in Sheikh...| Teach Palestine | Teaching Educators How to Teach Palestine
As teachers and students settle into the spring semester, we hope that 2021 will bring more health, more justice, and more peace. This has been a difficult time to be an educator, and many of us are feeling the impact of so many months of trying to support our students, our families, and ourselves. Despite everything, we’ve made some exciting changes to the Teach Palestine Project and to our website. We’re honored to add Dr. Samia Shoman to our staff as co-coordinator of the project. A Pa...| Teach Palestine | Teaching Educators How to Teach Palestine
The Environmental Impact of Colonization: From Palestine to the US/Mexico Border This webinar for K-12 teachers and teacher educators uses environmental issues as an entry point for pedagogy that compares the ongoing impact of settler colonialism in Palestine to the US/Mexico border region. The emphasis in this first of three webinars is on content knowledge within a decolonial framework. Copresented by Anita Fernandez and Curtis Acosta from the Xicanx Institute for Teaching and Organizing in...| Teach Palestine | Teaching Educators How to Teach Palestine