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Prepare for Fall Multi Day seminars!

Teaching American History

The seminar also includes a visit to a local historical site. Meals, materials, double-occupancy rooms, and historical site visits are covered 100%. For more information about our Multi-Day seminars and to see the schedule of events please click here. See a sample itinerary here. Have more questions? Click here.

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How do we teach Black history in polarized times? Here’s what it looks like in three cities

The Hechinger Report

One day this spring, Victoria Trice’s high school students in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, peered through virtual reality headsets as part of a lesson on Afrofuturism. LOUISVILLE Just blocks from where hundreds of protestors gathered near the Ohio River waterfront after the death of Breonna Taylor in 2020 sits Central High School.

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Teach Truth Day of Action 2024

Zinn Education Project

Contents Action Plan Overview | Action Plan Step-by-Step Guide Media Guide | Posters and Graphics Messages for Signs, Social Media, and Chants | Record a Statement Coordinators and Co-Sponsors | Workshops and More Events It’s time to take action. Event hosts also reference the Teach Truth Media Guide. Sign up here.

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Dyess Colony: Johnny Cash’s Boyhood Home

ACRE

He graduated from Dyess High School and later returned to perform a concert at the high school gymnasium. Videos & informational panels guide students through 1920s-30s Arkansas and how natural events like floods & droughts impacted the state during a time of financial turmoil for the country.

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Teach Truth Day of Action 2025

Zinn Education Project

Contents Action Plan Overview | Action Plan Step-by-Step Guide Media Guide | Posters and Graphics | Map of Sites Messages for Signs, Social Media, and Chants | Record a Statement Co-Sponsors | Workshops and More Events Join us to defend the freedom to learn. All you need to do is select a site and register. Sign up today.

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Teach Truth Day of Action 2024 Event Highlights

Zinn Education Project

Textbooks and high-stakes testing have also long distorted curricula. In this election year, that is why educators are hosting more than 170 #TeachTruth events to challenge the media silence and encourage everyone to defend the freedom to learn. Here are descriptions and photos from some of the events. Esther Productions, Inc.

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People’s History Teaching Stories

Zinn Education Project

Hope Koumentakos High School Social Studies Teacher, Takoma Park, Maryland I currently teach U.S. Allyson Saladino High School Social Studies Teacher, Ridgewood, New Jersey I used the lesson titled, How Red Lines Built White Wealth , in order for students to learn about red lining and institutionalized racism.

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