Teach Truth Day of Action
New Co-sponsor: American Library Association
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Photo by Chasity Malatesta, Bainbridge, Washington | |
The American Library Association has joined more that 70 organizations as co-sponsors for this year’s Teach Truth Day of Action. They know that children’s future depends on what they learn today.
Across the country, legislatures have passed laws to criminalize teaching honestly about U.S. history and to restrict students’ ability to ask questions and engage in critical thinking. The laws’ chilling effect reaches classrooms nationwide. Textbooks and high-stakes testing have also long distorted curricula.
Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian American, Palestinian, and LGBTQ+ writers are being banned by the same forces passing laws against voting rights, gun reform, trans rights, climate justice, and more.
We need to challenge the silence that increases racism, Islamophobia, antisemitism, sexism, and homophobia.
Join us on Saturday, June 8, for the Teach Truth Day of Action.
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Thank you to our co-sponsors. | |
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How to get involved:
Select a public place, such as a library, bookstore, farmers market, school, or pride parade.
Sign up and we will send you a pop-up display with banned books, buttons, and posters for an information table.
Events are confirmed already in Albuquerque, Atlanta, Boston, Brooklyn, D.C., Hartford, Iowa City, Kansas City, Miami, Nashville, New Orleans, Newark, Seattle, Youngstown, and dozens more cities. Add your community to the map.
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Defend the right to #TeachTruth (including about Palestine), fight book bans, and defend LGBTQ+ rights on June 8, 2024. | |
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Our Teach Truth Media Guide is for anyone seeking to communicate with the media or others about the dangers of anti-history education legislation and book bans, the importance of teaching truthfully, and the rights of LGBTQ+ students.
Although this guide was designed for the Teach Truth Days of Action, it can be referenced all year.
We include responses to frequently asked questions on systemic racism, LGBTQ identity, parents’ rights, Critical Race Theory, and more. This year we’ve added FAQs on Palestine, antisemitism, and Project 2025.
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Teaching for Black Lives
Study Group Applications Open
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A Teaching for Black Lives study group in Tallahassee, Florida. By Bryan Williams. | |
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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.
The study groups can be in a school, district, or state. Each participant receives a copy of Teaching for Black Lives, a subscription to Rethinking Schools magazine, curriculum workshops, and access to a national network of social justice educators. The coordinator receives a study group facilitation guide and support.
If you are interested in forming a study group next year, learn more and apply.
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Teachers are under attack for teaching truthfully about U.S. history. Please donate so that we can continue to offer free people’s history lessons and resources, and defend teachers’ right to use them. | | | | |
