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