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Together: Using Inquiry to Teach the Armenian Genocide

C3 Teachers

Ive always defined myself as a human rights educator, centering that theme throughout my 23 years of teaching. Their stories brought history to life for my students. Holocaust Memorial Museum Teacher Fellow in 2019. Tara That moment marked the beginning of a partnership that has grown into something powerful.

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Teach Truth Day of Action 2024

Zinn Education Project

Select a site in your town or city that symbolizes or reflects history that teachers would be required to lie about or omit if these bills become law, which is already the case in some states. It could be identified by a historic marker, statue, archive, burial ground, or museum. Students as Historians.

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Teach Truth Day of Action 2025

Zinn Education Project

Host an information table at a public site (like a library, bookstore, museum, festival, or farmers market) or organize a gathering at a historic site. It could be identified by a historic marker, statue, archive, burial ground, or museum. Students can be invited to share the local history of the respective site you select.

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Teach Truth History Walking Tours

Zinn Education Project

Kaley Duong, a recent high school graduate, on the Seattle Teach Truth history of 1919 walking tour. One of the best way to engage the community in defending the right to learn history is with a local history walking tour. Along the way, participants learn about history they wish they had learned in school.

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