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We provide teachers and parents with tools to create schools where students learn to read, write, and change the world. D.C. Area: @dcaesj.bsky.social and Zinn Ed Project (with Rethinking Schools) @zinnedproject.bsky.social.
DMV #EduSky , do you have plans for dinner tonight?
Now you do. Dinner, collective learning, great company (invite your friends too) makes for a low lift Wednesday evening.
See you tonight!
Rep. Delia Ramirez in purple jacket in front of microphone. Poster with people's faces or candles behind her. Blue sign says The People's State of the Union. PBS News logo.
"This administration with their imperialistic, fascist, authoritarian agenda . . . will never silence us."
"The state of the resistance is strong."
"We will uphold our shared humanity from Chicago to Palestine to Congo. . . " -- Rep. Delia Ramirez from Chicago in the People's State of the Union
Reverend Jesse Jackson's march for jobs -- around the White House. By photographer Thomas O'Halloran, 1975. Photograph shows Jesse Jackson surrounded by marchers carrying signs advocating support for the Hawkins-Humphrey Bill for full employment. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division. https://www.loc.gov/item/2003673988/
"You can’t plant a seed & pick the fruit the next morning."
So many lessons to learn from Rev. Jackson's (1941-2026) 💔words AND his years of on the ground organizing, in interracial coalitions, to challenge racism, sexism, anti-LGBTQ, poverty, unfair labor, militarism, mass incarceration, & more.
Looking for pre-K - 12 books for libraries, classrooms, and everywhere on Puerto Rico and the diaspora?
Here are some recommendations from @teachingchange.bsky.social's Social Justice Books. socialjusticebooks.org/booklists/pu...
We'll see you next month. Invite your friends!
www.zinnedproject.org/news/on-a-mo...
Here's another reading list inspired by the Teach the Black Freedom Sr
Be sure to add I'll Make Me A World: The 100-Year Journey of Black History Month to your reading list and include these other gems by Jarvis Givens:
📘Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching
Check out another conversation with historians Jarvis Givens and Imani Perry on the Black Teacher Archive.
www.zinnedproject.org/news/black-t...
💎Lots of talk about learning and unlearning and thinking critically when looking at our history.
💎We talked about the book bans; how history is controlled, edited, deleted, and modified over time and community to community and more.
💎We discussed making sure that Black women's intellectual and social labor is a central part of the story told, instead just as adjunct.
💎Many of us commented about the importance of uplifting the unknown people who contribute and organize.
We're close to the end of our time together, but we take a moment to engage with the content in small groups. What stood out? How are we thinking about teaching this content?
Here are some nuggets from these conversations.
"I'll Make Me A World: The 100-Year Journey of Black History Month" centers the names and experiences of everyday Black people, those who have often been excluded from dominant historical narratives.
www.zinnedproject.org/materials/il...
Givens argues that narratives like, "We got the shortest month of the year . . . " erases the labor and historic context of what was CHOSEN by collective advocacy to be intentional about when Black history is celebrated.
It's important to center the long arch of historical memory that was celebrated by community before these dates were formalized. Individuals like Mary Church Terrell.
Learn more and teach about Church Terrell and others.
www.zinnedproject.org/materials/te...
The Association for the Study of African American Live and History (@asalh-bhm.bsky.social ) was founded in Chicago, Illinois on September 9, 1915 by Carter G. Woodson and Jesse E. Moorland.
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/AS...
As we begin to center this 100-year journey of Black History Month, it's important for us to know who Carter G. Woodson is, as the intellectual and his efforts before Negro History Week was founded. asalh.org/carter-g-woo...
⏰It's time y'all! Tonight's @zinnedproject.bsky.social Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online class with historian Jarvis Givens is underway with folks among our 170,000 educators zooming in from Alameda, CA, Chicago, Illinois, Washington, D.C. and more!
#EduSky Class is back in session tonight! Stay tuned to this 🧵 for our takeaways and live commentary.
B&W portrait of person sitting in front of "Strike!" poster and book shelves. Text: Howard ZInn 1922-2010. "I leave you with the idea that we’re not alone, and that there are people all over the world and people in this country who do not accept the idea of a special dispensation to do whatever we want in the world. And they will insist on human equality of people everywhere." —Howard Zinn, “The Myth of American Exceptionalism,” 2005
On the anniversary of Howard Zinn's death in 2010, we share updates about forthcoming books, a new film, online classes, booth displays, performances, and events that carry forward Zinn’s legacy of activism.
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If you are in the D.C. metro area, join our @dcaesj.bsky.social at @busboysandpoets.bsky.social (14 & V) for an in-person conversation with @brianjoneseducator.bsky.social and @edgeofsports.bsky.social .
www.dcareaeducators4socialjustice.org/events/black...
Be sure to join us next week! www.zinnedproject.org/news/100-yea...
All good things must come to an end. A powerful outro is offered as we depart this evening that is salient to this conversation through the music of Andrew Dykes.
youtu.be/s4RRtd096iw?...
Speaking to this moment, @brianjoneseducator.bsky.social offers hope, "We have to take care of each other, and sometimes that means we have to have spaces outside that are unofficial spaces.
Where people can nurture their thoughts and ideas [much like these Black freedom struggle classes.]"
💎Teachers are planning celebrations for Frederick Douglass’ birthday.
💎Teachers are teaching using timelines of Black liberation struggles.
💎"We talked about how racism is an ongoing project--not a natural event."
and more!
After brief breakout diving a little deeper into how we are teaching this content from "Blac History Is For Everyone," or if there was a moment from the conversation that stood out, we are back! But here are some gems that folks are gleaning from our breakouts.
When speaking of the Haitian Revolution, @brianjoneseducator.bsky.social highlights that "These revolutionaries are people who remembered another way to live."
Lessons and resources highlighted to help teach this (⬆️) history:
📒Bill Bigelow's lesson based on those colonial laws -- -https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/color-line-colonial-laws
📒Julian Hipkins teaching the lesson on colonial laws www.washingtonpost.com/local/how-we...
