Free classroom lessons, workshops, seminars, campaigns, teacher study groups, & more to teach outside the textbook.
Coord. by @rethinkingschools.bsky.social & @teachingchange.bsky.social
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Climate emergencies surround us today. Students deserve opportunities to study the history of climate change, examine its root causes, & shape pathways to a more sustainable world.
Educators are creating these opportunities for students.
Read their stories: ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/stories...
Thank you for an amazing Children’s Peace Parade Moms Rage KC and thank you Zinn Education Project for the Banned Books and more for our table! Kids decorated bookmarks and loved our stickers, buttons and display @zinnedproject.bsky.social
Explore historical context for today’s struggle against voter suppression & for voting rights in the 3-lesson unit, “Who Gets to Vote?” Includes an oral history interview w/ Fannie Lou Hamer.
Hamer was 45 the 1st time she tried to register to vote in Miss.
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“When somebody wants us to lose funding, we’re going to lose it anyways. The difference is, did we lose it while bending the knee, or . . .standing up for our values?” -- Wilmer Chavarria, Winooski School District sup't on sanctuary policy protecting immigrant students via
@hechingerreport.org ⬇️
Apply by tomorrow! 💡
Keep learning all summer. Join a virtual ‘Teaching for Black Lives’ study group. Pre-K–12 educators will explore how to teach about racism, resistance, and joy.
Participants receive ‘Teaching for Black Lives’ book & a @rethinkingschools.bsky.social magazine subscription. ⬇️
We need you!
Make your defense of the freedom to learn visible:
1) Choose a #TeachTruth action (ex: mini-lesson or gallery walk)
2) Pick a time & place
3) Download resources: signs, postcards, buttons, Banned Books displays & more
Publicly defending the freedom to learn takes all of us.
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#tdih 1965 More than 100,000 students boycotted Chicago schools to protest inequality & segregation.
Many Black students were forced into overcrowded trailers & underfunded schools while white schools had many open seats.
The protests helped spark the Chicago Freedom Movement of 1965–1966. 🧵
#tdih 1964 in Tuscaloosa, AL 500+ Black marchers were violently attacked by KKK & police during protests to end segregation on “Bloody Tuesday.”
Marchers took refuge in 1st African Baptist Church as police smashed windows w/ fire hoses & filled church w/ tear gas.
No one was ever held accountable.
#tdih 2018 “We unified behind our shared vision of saving the Ogallala Aquifer, the Niobrara, Ni Shude & all the Silent Ones. . . Mekasi Camp-Horinek brought the Ponca sacred corn to a ceremony 5 years ago. These ‘seeds of resistance’ were planted on the proposed route of KXL to create a barrier.” ⬇️
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In Winooski, Vermont, where more than a third of children are English learners, a school superintendent has invested in protecting immigrant students even as one of his own was detained
Climate emergencies surround us today. Students of the 2020s know: Climate change is real, here, and intensifying. They deserve opportunities to study its history, examine its root causes, and shape p...
We need to reach as many people as possible with information about the chilling effect of these laws and how they threaten any chance of an informed and engaged democracy. We offere here lots of ways ...
In the summer of 2026, the Zinn Education Project will host and facilitate a Teaching for Black Lives study group for educators across the United States.
More than 100,000 students stayed out of school to protest inequality and segregation in Chicago, Illinois.
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Following months of protests to end segregation, Black residents of Tuscaloosa, Alabama were brutally attacked by police and the Klan inside the First African Baptist Church.
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Along the “Trail of Tears” in Neligh, Nebraska, a farmer signed a deed to return ancestral land to the Ponca Tribe.
“We’re on this escalator towards warmer and warmer and warmer temperatures, and world leaders are not doing anything about it.”
#OTD in 1963, Fannie Lou Hamer was arrested in Mississippi for riding in the “white” section of a bus. In jail, she was brutally beaten. She never stopped fighting for voting rights. #TheMarchContinues
We continue to follow the impact of the Trump administration’s ongoing assault on scientific research in the United States with an update from climate scientist Peter Kalmus, who says he has been forc...
