Share Your Social Justice Emergency Distance Teaching Story
Educators and students across the country are adjusting to the new reality of teaching from a distance while letting students know they are still a close part of our community.
Please tell us how you are writing or adapting lessons with social justice themes during emergency distance learning. We welcome stories about how you are adapting lessons from any of the Teaching for Change websites (Teaching for Change, Civil Rights Teaching, Teaching Central America, Teach the Beat, Challenge Islamophobia, Zinn Education Project) or writing your own.
We also recognize that this distance learning is an emergency strategy in the pandemic. Therefore, these lessons and teaching strategies are temporary measures, not a new norm. You can see stories from other teachers in our network.
In appreciation for your time, we will send you a free book (select from list below) or copy of the 1619 Project.
Book Selection
My Life as an Ice Cream Sandwich by Ibi Zoboi
No Crystal Stair by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, R Gregory Christie
Palante by Young Lords Party
PET by awaeke emezi
Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson
A Promise to Keep by Mario Bencastro
The Roots of Rap: 16 Bars on the 4 Pillars of Hip-Hop by Carole Boston Weatherford
Ruth and the Green Book by Calvin A. Ramsey
Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library by Carole Boston Weatherford
Sing a Song: How "Lift Every Voice and Sing" Inspired Generations by Kelly Starling Lyons
So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth’s Long Walk Toward Freedom by Gary Schmidt
This is the Rope, A Story of the Great Migration by Jacqueline Woodson
Troublemaker for Justice: The Story of Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the March on Washington by Jacqueline Houtman, Walter Naegle, Michael G. Long
Voice of Freedom Fannie Lou Hamer by Carole Boston Weatherford
Watch Us Rise by Renee Watson
What Do You Do with a Voice Like That? The Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan by Chris Barton
When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
The New Whistleblower's Handbook: A Step-By-Step Guide To Doing What's Right And Protecting Yourself
Yo Soy Muslim by Mark Gonzales
1919 by Eve L. Ewing A Beautiful Ghetto by Devin Allen
Africa is Not a Country by Margy Burns Knight
B is for Baby by Atinuke
The Big Bed by Bunmi Laditan
Betty Before X by Ilyasah Shabazz with Renee Watson
The Book Itch by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
El Abuelo by Debbie Bailey
Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing
Ellen's Broom by Kelly Starling Lyons
Freedom on the Menu by Carole Boston Weatherford
I Love My Purse by Belle DeMont
Islandborn/ Lola by Junot Díaz
The Journey of Little Charlie by Christopher Paul Curtis
Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera
Just Mercy: A True Story of the Fight for Justice by Bryan Stevenson
Look Both Ways by Jason Reynolds
Mama Africa: How Miriam Makeba Spread Hope with Her Song by Kathryn Erskine
Mamas Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation by Edwidge Danticat and Leslie Staub
Martin Rising: Requiem for a King by Andrea Davis Pinkney
Me and Momma and Big John by Mara Rockliff, William Low
My Brother Charlie by Holly Robinson Peete and Ryan Elizabeth Peete
My Hair by Hannah Lee, Allen Fatimaharan