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Since 2019, Teaching for Change has organized Teach Central America Week to encourage and support teaching about Central America. Each year hundreds of teachers nationwide commit to teach about Central America during Latinx Heritage Month.
Save the date for this in-person teach-in hosted at the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) in Washington D.C.
Central American authors Anna Lapera, Bessie Flores Zaldívar, John Manual Arias, and Diana Rojas will discuss their recent book releases. Teaching for Change board member Nancy Raquel Mirabal will emcee the discussion.
Join the Theater Alliance and DCAESJ for a Teach Truth Day of Action special event celebrating the life and legacy of poet, June Jordan.
Esther Productions, Inc., Spoken Word, and the Francis Gregory Neighborhood Library are hosting an interactive Teach Truth pop-up display, book swap, discussion, and reading by author Carolivia Herron of her banned book, Nappy Hair.
Come learn the story and legacy of Washington, DC’s African American authors of children’s literature at this free event featuring noted authors, public television and radio producers and hosts, book illustrators, bookstore owners and civil rights leaders.
October 2–6, 2023, join hundreds of educators nationwide who commit to teach about Central America during Latinx Heritage Month.
Mark your calendar for the annual 2023 Indigenous Peoples' Day Curriculum Teach-In on Saturday, September 30, 2023. This year, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) and Teaching for Change are excited to host an in-person event at the National Museum of American Indian in Washington D.C.
Join the Library, DC Legacy Project and Teaching for Change for a screening of the 50-minute documentary film Barry Farm: Community, Land and Justice in Washington DC, followed by a go-go show with the Junkyard Band!
Join Teaching for Change's Teach the Beat program at "The Beat Keeps Going" Capital City Go-Go game. Use the offer code TEACH for a buy one, get one free ticket deal.
This interactive, online session will provide teachers with strategies and resources for introducing the Indigenous history of Central America in their classroom. Connections will be made to Indigenous communities and the challenges they face today.
Join Teaching for Change’s Teach the Beat and DC Public Schools Office of Teaching and Learning, for a go-go professional development experience featuring The Uncle Devin Show®!
The D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice (DCAESJ) and the African American Civil War Memorial and Museum (AACWM) invite D.C. area teachers and allies to a convening to decry the GOP legislation that would require teachers to lie to students about the role of racism, sexism, heterosexism, and oppression throughout U.S. history.
Join Teaching for Change’s Teach the Beat and DC Public Schools Office of Teaching and Learning, for a go-go professional development experience featuring The Uncle Devin Show®!
Join Washington Teachers’ Union and Teaching for Change as we host a Decolonizing the Curriculum summer series beginning July 27th. This six-session series will feature presentations disrupting the master narrative in classroom curriculum, by providing hands-on strategies with lessons to be used in-person and virtually.
The 2021 Black Lives Matter at School Virtual Curriculum Fair, hosted by Teaching for Change’s D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice network and Howard University's School of Education, will be held virtually on Saturday, January 30 from 11:00 am - 1:30 PM ET.
You are invited to a workshop to learn about a special collection of Washington D.C. photos from the photographer and share ideas about how to include the photos in classes on D.C. history, U.S. history, civics, and more.
Join Salvadoran American journalist Roberto Lovato, author of the new book “Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas" for a virtual book talk.
Accepting participants up to February 14, 2020 or until full
Teaching for Change leads a professional development course for pre-K and elementary school educators to examine how race and class affect family engagement, and what equitable strategies can look like. The Tellin’ Stories Race, Equity, and Family Engagement Seminar brings teachers, counselors, and support staff from local public schools together to learn about these issues and develop strategies to meaningfully engage families through an equity-based lens.
Ms. Greenfield will be available to sign copies of her exquisite new book, The Women Who Caught the Babies: A Story of African American Midwives, at the Teaching for Change office. Copies will be available for purchase or you can bring your own copy of that title or others.
The Tellin’ Stories Race, Equity, and Family Engagement Summer Institutes will teach participants to apply an asset-based lens to family engagement that is grounded in popular education, community organizing, racial equity, and family engagement research.
Registration will close when filled or by June 28, 2019
The Tellin’ Stories Race, Equity, and Family Engagement Summer Institutes will teach participants to apply an asset-based lens to family engagement that is grounded in popular education, community organizing, racial equity, and family engagement research.
Registration will close when filled or by May 31, 2019.
Drawing on her life’s work teaching and researching in urban schools, Bettina Love's We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom persuasively argues that educators must teach students about racial violence, oppression, and how to make sustainable change in their communities through radical civic initiatives and movements.
The 2009 Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal was the subject of national headlines. In None of the Above: The Untold Story of the Atlanda Public Schools Cheating Scandal, Corporate Greed, and the Criminalization of Educators, Shani Robinson, one of the teachers charged and ultimately convicted as part of the scandal, and journalist Anna Simonton show how school employees were collateral damage in a crisis caused by an education reform movement that is increasingly shaped by business interests.
