Teach Truth Day of Action
Put Your City on the Map
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Join us on Saturday, June 8, to defend the freedom to learn. | |
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In this election year, we need to tell everyone about the chilling effect of anti-history education laws and how they threaten an informed and engaged democracy.
We will send you a pop-up display with banned books, buttons, posters, and other materials for an information table.
All you need to do is select a public place, such as a library, bookstore, farmers market, school, or pride parade.
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People have signed up 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 city to the map.
Defend the right to #TeachTruth (including about Palestine), fight book bans, and defend LGBTQ+ rights on June 8, 2024.
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C. J. Prentiss ¡Presente!
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We have many legislators who want to dismantle and privatize education. [We must] make the defeat of the enemies of education funding a top priority when it’s election time. We need more legislators who believe in public schools. — C. J. Prentiss | | |
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We are saddened by the news that the powerful Ohio organizer and political leader C. J. Prentiss died on April 2, 2024.
Our Prentiss Charney Fellowship is named for Prentiss and Michael Charney. Prentiss served in the Ohio State Senate where she focused on public education and mentored a generation of Black political leaders.
In October of 2022, Prentiss spoke with the first cohort of teachers in the fellowship named for her. She closed by saying,
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I am honored that you would agree to participate as Prentiss Charney Fellows. You look at what is going on and you say, “Is there going to be a turnaround?” And you all are that turnaround. You are the hope that I envisioned. | | |
May we continue to carry forward Prentiss’s fierce dedication to quality education for all children with her capacity to bring out the best in her peers. | In memory, contribute to the Prentiss Charney Fellowship. Indicate in the memo that it is in honor of C. J. Prentiss. | |
Teaching for Black Lives
Study Group Application Open
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A Teaching for Black Lives study group in San Marcos, Texas. | |
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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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Reparations and Climate Justice
Monday, May 6
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On Monday, May 6, 2024, philosophy professor Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò will discuss his book Reconsidering Reparations, with wide implications for views of justice, racism, the legacy of colonialism, and climate change policy. Táíwò will be in conversation with Cierra Kaler-Jones and Jesse Hagopian as part of our Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online series. | |
As temperatures continue to break records, the corporate media is not headlining this urgent news. Therefore, it is all the more important to teach climate justice. We also offer resources to teach about reparations. Sign up for our class with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò to learn how to connect both topics in the classroom. | |
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. | | | | |
