Zinn Education Project

JULY 17, 2024

Social Justice Books offers a list of recommended books for pre-K–12 on immigration. The Line Between Us: Teaching About the Border and Mexican Immigration Teaching Guide by Bill Bigelow Lessons for teaching about the history of U.S.–Mexico Mexico relations and current border and immigration issues.

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Zinn Education Project

JULY 20, 2024

Historian John Avery Dittmer (October 30, 1939 – July 19, 2024) was the author of key texts on the SNCC and grassroots organizing in Mississippi, including Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi and The Good Doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care.

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Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

My guest is Dave Edwards, an educator who works to teach these principles through his brand-new book, Gender-Inclusive Schools ( Amazon | Bookshop.org ), and his website of the of the same name. As the parent of a transgender daughter who has experienced discrimination, Dave’s mission is a personal one. What should I have said?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2020

The Cornell Students 4 Black Lives account takes a slightly different approach and operates as a coalition of student and alumni organizations focused on raising money for social justice organizations, while also highlighting how systemic racism plays out in Ithaca, New York, where Cornell is located, and on Cornell’s campus.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 5, 2020

Beginning next week, my summer students and I will co-create our Leadership for Social Justice class together, recognizing that none of us has all of the answers but that we all can do something. Books: Anti-racism. Books: School leadership for social justice. Books: School leadership for social justice.

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Zinn Education Project

APRIL 27, 2024

Books on Labor and Organizing Here is a list from Social Justice Books of recommended titles for pre-K—12 and background reading for educators on labor history and labor organizing. Learn more. Films with a Conscience These “ films with a conscience ” can help young people think deeply about the world.

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Heinemann Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

To kick off February, we're bringing you a list of the 4 Heinemann professional books about equity, social justice, antibias and antiracism, and social comprehension.

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Zinn Education Project

AUGUST 1, 2024

Order Book Here is a list from Social Justice Books of recommended titles for pre-K—12 and background reading for educators on labor history and labor organizing. Together, they describe the growing movement to forge multiracial alliances with communities to defend and transform public education.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 16, 2024

In this election year, the Zinn Education Project developed an interactive Teach Truth pop-up display to raise awareness about the growing threat of anti-history education laws and book bans. When table visitors lift each book, they find a colorful paper underneath that explains why and where it has been banned or challenged.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 14, 2025

In the book and film, Slavery by Another Name , Douglas Blackmon explains how many businesses and local police departments used the exception for people who committed a crime to continue to exploit Black labor and knowledge. To introduce this topic to students, the cartoon by Benjamin Slyngstad can serve as a prompt for discussion.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

They believe that kids, no matter what grade they are in, should learn history through an antiracist lens, not only learning about the role of white supremacy and racism in history, but doing so in a way that empowers them to pursue social justice. In the read aloud for the book “Mr.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2024

Social justice is a core value of Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School, and the school also belongs to a special assessment cons ortium , giving it more freedom in what is taught than a typical New York City public high school. She’s taught about social movements for two decades at American University in Washington, D.C.,

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Zinn Education Project

AUGUST 20, 2024

In this lesson, students read excerpts from Jones’ book to learn about these women, share their knowledge with each other, and use what they’ve gathered to analyze Jones’ provocative title: In what sense did these women constitute a “vanguard” and why? Also includes background reading for adults.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 16, 2018

The NNSTOY Social Justice Book list is a great resource for building your classroom library. Speak out in faculty meetings about inclusion, equity, and social justice and if necessary, challenge the status quo. Honor multiple perspectives in your classroom. Be human enough to admit them and correct them.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

An avowed Marxist, deBoer argues unabashedly that he has set out “to demolish the entire meritocratic system and give [underprivileged] kids equal economic circumstances to begin with,” as a Wall Street Journal review of his book summarized. Related: What if public schools never reopen? Hirsch, Jr. The results have not rewarded our faith.

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ED Surge

JUNE 16, 2023

In a stinging irony, many tenured faculty teach courses on equity and social justice, where students learn about oppression engendered by privilege. Yet just down the hall, someone else with the same level of education is teaching a similar course for vastly less pay and with little or no benefits.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Teaching ‘anthropologically’ through multimodal practices enhances social justice and more often than not empowers students to challenge dominant power structures and to critically reflect on issues of power and privilege, the same way that anthropologists tamper with the academic and ethnographic text as a dominant narrative mode.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Science has to be taken seriously,” said Maryanne Wolf, director of the Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners and Social Justice at UCLA and author of Proust and the Squid , a book about how the brain learns to read. “We Science evolves.

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Mr and Mrs Social Studies

JANUARY 16, 2023

President (or leader of your respective country), a famous inventor, a social justice activist, or even a character in a book your students have read about. You might not think that you have time to teach job skills, but there are some unique project ideas that you could apply to any historical unit.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 6, 2024

The Day of Action is cosponsored by more than 65 prominent racial and social justice organizations. There were over 4,000 instances of book bans in the first half of this school year, according to PEN America’s April 2024 report, Banned in the USA: Narrating the Crisis. Here are highlights from the remarks.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Ness Book Award for contributions to the understanding and improvement of liberal education, profiles faculty members and institutions that Davidson believes are changing to better prepare students for the modern world and workforce. Students consider the implications for work, housing, poverty, social justice and more.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2021

Recognize that each student and class is different; this requires you to know your students well enough to anticipate their needs and feelings, and to be able to suggest books that might speak to them better than you can. Practice words and phrases you might use, say them out loud and write them down.

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Zinn Education Project

MAY 30, 2024

The goal is to raise awareness about how anti-history education laws and book bans — and their chilling effect — threaten any chance of an informed and engaged democracy. There were over 4,000 instances of book bans in the first half of this school year, according to PEN America’s April 2024 report, Banned in the USA: Narrating the Crisis.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2019

The ASCA School Counselor Professional Standards and Competencies require counselors to “use multicultural and social justice theories to promote equity and access for all students.”. and is the author of the book How to Tutor Your Own Child (2011). Does this include calling out flagrant abuse and discriminatory practices?

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Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

It was in Alex Venet’s book, Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education ( Amazon | Bookshop.org ), where she names it as the most important guiding philosophy in her work. ” In her book, she asserts that taking this stance and putting it into practice builds the foundation on which our students can thrive. You have value.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

In August, students in the Racial Justice Coalition at the University of Massachusetts Amherst met with senior administration officials to ask for a new social-justice general education requirement, but their request was denied, said Zach Steward, a junior studying African American studies and legal studies.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 18, 2023

Her 2021 book, Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education , is one I wish I’d had available to me before I started teaching; it would have made a world of difference in how I saw my students and designed my classroom practices. ” Effective trauma-informed education is not just for the kids. We’re going through trauma as well.”

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Dangerously Irrelevant

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

new book!). But it sure seems like there are enormous, important, gaping holes in our conversations that we educational leadership faculty decline to fill year after year… Related Posts. Principal 2.0 (new When it comes to educators and technology… The best school technology leadership program in the country?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Maybe they envision tweed jackets and book-lined offices with a view. I first got into teaching because I loved kids and I loved books. My master’s degree in education through a social justice graduate program radically changed how I approached teaching. I used to as well — it sounds prestigious and respectable.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2019

In his book, “Educating Global Citizens in Colleges and Universities,” historian Peter Stearns has written that Americans are “legendary” for being reluctant to learn another language. Equity, or social justice, is another important consideration. New Way of Thinking.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

million book images from the Internet Archive. . We’d have a variety of Social Studies simulations and games available to us. We could create our own social justice project like Bill Ferriter’s middle schoolers. National Archives, and maybe dig through the 5.3 We could play Fantasy Geography.

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Zinn Education Project

APRIL 19, 2024

news segments on Haiti Social Justice Books recommended books for K–12 and educators The post Teaching About Haiti appeared first on Zinn Education Project. Here are selected resources: Tè Tremblé: An Unnatural Disaster: A Trial Role Play Probes the Roots of Devastation in Haiti by Adam Sanchez Democracy Now!

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

Students at Florida International University, including some pursuing master’s degrees in African and African diaspora studies, discuss a book about a massacre of tens of thousands of Haitians by the Dominican army in 1937. Credit: Photo: Leslie Ovalle for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2018

Small colleges and universities in particular, which have been hardest hit by a six-year enrollment decline, are “really scraping for students,” said Zemsky, co-author of a new book called Making Sense of the College Curriculum. “So Related: How one university is luring coveted honors students with social justice.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 15, 2024

Citation from the Award Committee: A self-described, “high-spirited feminist philosopher and political scientist”, Dr. Loonat is a passionate advocate for equity and social justice. Dr. Loonat’s forthcoming book (2025) examines white supremacy in U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

For more than a year, social justice activists have been attacking one of education’s latest buzzwords: grit. Her theories on grit, which she defines as a combination of passion and persistence, have been popularized by a best-selling book and many magazine articles.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

Hanging on an office door in Hawthorn Hall, for example, is a pastel-colored advertisement from Student Support Services inviting Latinx students to stop by for help with academic advising, tutoring and mentoring, book and laptop loan programs and financial literacy education.

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