Zinn Education Project

APRIL 19, 2024

It is important for young people to learn about the roots of the crisis and the long history of resistance. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2024

Yancy Sanes teaches a unit on the climate crisis at Fannie Lou Hamer High School in the Bronx – not climate change, but the climatecrisis. I teach from a mindset and lens that I want to make sure my students are becoming activists, and it’s not enough just talking about it,” the science and math teacher said. “

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2023

Ron DeSantis or the College Board to curate and disburse Black history to us. As despicable and harmful as the Florida governor’s recent rejection of the pilot Advanced Placement (AP) African American Studies course was, DeSantis does not get to decide when and how we learn Black history. DeSantis’ playbook is plagiarized.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Tyndall turned down a bevy of offers from colleges in other states to attend Rutgers’ Honors Living-Learning Community (HLLC), which brings together dozens of students each year for a residential program that combines rigorous academics with a social-justice focus. “I Eventually, he’d like to serve as either the U.S.

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Zinn Education Project

APRIL 27, 2024

What could be more important for our students than to learn that progress toward greater justice in the world has occurred only when people have organized together and fought for it? But the right to teach about that labor history is jeopardized by the growing number of anti-history laws and high-stakes testing.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

Ankita Ajith is one of four college-age friends who are petitioning the Texas State Board of Education to create an antiracist American history curriculum. They are advocating for core curriculum changes in social studies — specifically American history — classes.

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

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. Mostly forgotten by history, thousands of Chinese immigrants, who came to the U.S.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 29, 2024

Each year, the Zinn Education Project hosts Teaching for Black Lives study groups across the United States. Using the Rethinking Schools book Teaching for Black Lives , educators explore how to teach about racism, resistance, and joy in free, teacher-led professional learning communities. history, racism, and LGBTQ+ identity.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

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. These laws and restrictions have been imposed in at least 18 states. In Florida, Gov.

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Zinn Education Project

AUGUST 19, 2024

We are thrilled to announce the 2024–2025 Teach the Black Freedom Struggle season of online classes — a series unlike any other professional development. These classes focus on uncovering the Black history that we all should have been taught and equip teachers with the knowledge to bring these lessons into classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2021

They point to dismal scores on national history and civics exams — less than 25 percent scored as proficient — as proof that schools need to spend more time teaching students core facts about our system of government, and warn that civics projects are displacing that instruction. Credit: Christopher Blanchette.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Kimberlé Crenshaw stated that in its original formulation, Intersectionality worked to expose “ how single-axis thinking undermines legal thinking, disciplinary knowledge production, and struggles for social justice.” When I say “able to,” I mean the opportunity to earn the qualifications to teach in a university classroom.

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ED Surge

JUNE 23, 2023

At that point in my life, I knew I wanted to teach this style of dance to young people; with the right tools and experience, I knew I could help students understand and learn about their identity and culture the same way I did through Folklorico. Some lost the chance to participate in school plays and performances.

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Political Science Now

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The students helped research and re-fresh APSA Educate’s Teaching the Russia-Ukriance War Resource Collection. They also talked to APSA Educate about their passion for civic education, social justice, scholarly analysis, and interest in studying political science at the undergraduate level.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2018

Immigration has always been a difficult issue to grapple with, but we are in the midst of what will be remembered as a particularly dark time in our history. In schools, educators will inevitably teach students from a variety of backgrounds with different beliefs, ideas and opinions. There are ways to do better.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

A year ago, a Pennsylvania school board voted to ban a long list of books and other materials relating to race and social justice. Legislators in at least 27 states have proposed or enacted bans on teaching critical race theory and other so-called divisive concepts, with significant penalties attached.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Lewis (he/him/his) is an identity politics researcher, social justice activist, and Associate Professor of Political Science at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a Bachelor of Arts in History from the historic Tuskegee University. My research is theoretically robust.

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Life and Landscapes

OCTOBER 25, 2024

the fierce intellectual fireball, microbiologist, student of law, seeker of social justice, and woman of more “firsts” than can be imagined, and that is saying a lot of a woman in those times. After teaching microbiology at the university, she was appointed Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at UofL from 1978-1985.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 12, 2021

There are many things in history that do not have two equal opposing sides: slavery, genocide, imperialism, colonialism, segregation, etc. Educators should help students understand how oppressors justified their actions in history without giving credit to their arguments. Leadership for social justice: Class update 1.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources. It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. government as well.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Your history course may not specify that you are gaining skills in research, writing and evaluation logic. Another success story that comes to mind is from a provider that is partnering with a social justice nonprofit to help give internship opportunities to students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

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Political Science Now

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

He began attending in the APSA Teaching and Learning Conference in 2008 and served as a track moderator starting in 2011-2014 for the Diversity, Inclusiveness, and Equality Track. He also served on the Teaching and Learning Conference Program Committee from 2012 through 2017, helping to organize the structure and content of the meetings.

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

Ensuring safe and supportive teaching and learning environments is also key. We embrace our families and spend the bulk of our time on what matters most: teaching our students. I am now part of a thriving school community, where we hold a shared vision and set of core values. I am proof that all is not lost.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Institutions also reportedly looked back further at students’ academic history and grades than they typically would. It could mean more technology in their curriculums or more training for lecturers on online teaching. Because the schools also were struggling, the college has offered many free services to high school students.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2021

Know your “why” — why it matters to the students in front of you and why you are choosing to teach in the manner you are with the materials you have chosen. I prepared by selecting supporting books that would allow us to talk about identity, history, children’s voices and white privilege.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

CompuGirls was founded in 2006 by Dr. Kim Scott and introduces adolescent girls to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) through culturally responsive practices and social justice. This year, I spent most of my time in a public-facing role representing Hawai? i in the Teacher of the Year program.

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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. history course.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The switch to virtual teaching was especially jarring for us because our course was built completely around our spring-break trip – with all the excitement that travel entails. As we look forward to a fall semester teaching entirely online, we are translating those hard-fought lessons to the complex task ahead.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

Andrea Queeley teaches her course about societies and cultures of the Caribbean at Florida International University. Subjects like this provide “a more responsible and informed approach that is about creating justice and about righting the wrongs of the past,” she says. Will history repeat?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2017

In my first year of teaching, I had to design and teach a unit on the Haitian Revolution. Education is a tool for social justice.”. To complement our study of South African history, I have invited South Africans into our classroom. Education is a tool for social justice.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. The right’s blind faith insists that “if we have school choice in the form of charter schools and private school vouchers … competitive pressures will force the schools and teachers to teach better, and to churn out students who are excelling academically.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Julian Ambriz (left), a teacher joining PUC Schools through the Alumni Teach Project this year, works with his mentor, Justin Gutierrez (right), a physical education teacher, during a training session in July. Now 24 years old, he is one of 11 new residents joining the PUC Schools network through the school system’s Alumni Teach Project.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2019

Throughout history, we have seen how educational institutions show pervasive bias toward black and brown students. 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.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2019

But for now, it’s focused on training existing educators to become more “culturally responsive,” representing diverse cultures and frames of reference in their teaching. Some people don’t think we have an issue with race at all,” said Deangello Eley, a 1999 graduate of Sussex Tech who now teaches criminal justice at the school.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

Adults with workplace skills such as human resources training or financial management deserve credit for such college-level learning, said Mathew Bergman, an associate professor at the University of Louisville who is a national expert in adult learning and teaches in the program. “If They picked classes and planned a schedule.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

During the pandemic, parents at the John Stanford International School spent $249,999 — one dollar less than the school district allows before the board steps in to review such spending — on teaching assistants for a dual language program. We are a lip-service city and not everyone feels comfortable doing that.”. Credit: Dawn Larson.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

In 2024, not only are books being banned, but also the right to teach about racism and LGBTQ+ identity — essentially placing thousands more titles off limits. history does not risk causing some discomfort for the reader? In addition to banning books and curriculum, the right threatens teachers who pledge to teach truthfully.

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