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National Teach Truth Day of Action Press Call Highlights

Zinn Education Project

The Day of Action is cosponsored by more than 65 prominent racial and social justice organizations. Rocio Inclan , senior director, National Education Association Center for Racial and Social Justice It’s an honor to join you, and to speak on behalf of the National Education Associations’ 3 million members.

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Curating a More Inclusive Library

Cult of Pedagogy

She is the author of the 2021 book Include ( Amazon | Bookshop ) and a co-author of the upcoming book Manga Goes to School: Cultivating Engagement and Inclusion in K-12 Settings ( Amazon | Bookshop ). Darius calls himself a fractional Persian due to his mother’s Iranian heritage, and he never feels like he fits in.

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Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Studies Weekly

Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month April 29, 2024 • Studies Weekly Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is a great opportunity to incorporate culturally responsive teaching into students’ learning experience. They helped shape our country into what it is today.

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TEACHER VOICE: ‘Which police officer will see me not as an educator or a scientist, but as a suspect?’

The Hechinger Report

These men, and many others, inspired me to be proud of my multiracial heritage. “More than half of K-12 students in the United States are people of color, yet only about one fifth of teachers are. It meant helping my students craft elegant poetry infused with messages of social justice as their spoken word poetry coach.

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Teach Truth Day of Action 2024 Event Highlights

Zinn Education Project

Area Educators for Social Justice hosted interactive Teach Truth pop-up display tables on June 8 at: Busboys and Poets Brookland. Hundreds of people stopped by the booth hosted by the DC Area Educators for Social Justice at the Capital Pride festival on June 9. June 8, 9:00 am – 12:00 noon. Capital Pride Festival.

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Segregated schools are still the norm. Howard Fuller is fine with that

The Hechinger Report

My support for vouchers,” he said, “didn’t have a damn thing to do with free-market principles … it was a social justice issue to me.”. But he saw an even greater opportunity for low-income black families in a newer idea: charter schools. secretary of education.