Teaching for Change and the Washington Teachers’ Union and Teaching for Change hosted a Decolonizing the Curriculum summer series July 27-August 12, 2021. This six-session series featured presentations disrupting the master narrative in classroom curriculum by providing hands-on strategies with lessons to be used in-person and virtually.

The founding co-coordinator of the D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice People’s History Curriculum Working Group, Caneisha Mills, has been named the 2021 D.C. History Teacher of the Year by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.

“How many Central Americans can you name?” Caneisha Mills, 8th- grade teacher at Hardy Middle School in Washington, D.C. asked her advisory. During Teach Central America Week, Mills used the remote learning Central America mixer template to explore the lives and experiences of Central American figures with students.

On Saturday, August 29 at 2pm EST, the DC Area Educators for Social Justice (DCAESJ) is hosting a workshop for up to 40 DC area teachers on using the lesson Poetry of Defiance. DCPS Middle school teacher Caneisha Mills will model how to teach the lesson using remote instruction.