D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice, Center for Inspired Teaching, and many other D.C. area organizations are organizing for the D.C. Area Black Lives Matter Week of Action in Schools. Please join us for a planning meeting on Wednesday, December 5 from 6-8pm.

Join PZ-DC for a workshop designed for educators who want to learn about using Project Zero strategies in their bilingual, immersion, or language acquisition classes.

Central Appalachia and south Wales were built to extract coal and faced with coal’s decline, both regions have experienced economic depression, labor unrest, and out-migration. After Coal focuses on coalfield residents who chose not to leave, but instead remained in their communities and worked to build a diverse and sustainable economy. 

Fully bilingual (English/Spanish), this award-winning exhibition highlights the triumphs, tribulations, and immigration stories of Latinx peoples in Washington, DC, and Baltimore, MD, through interactive panels, photos, and art.

Journalist and author Dana Frank will discuss her new book, The Long Honduran Night, a story of resistance, repression, and US policy in Honduras in the aftermath of a violent military coup in 2009.

The DC State Board of Education and EmpowerEd are co-hosting a city-wide forum on the critical issue of teacher and principal retention. This will be a great discussion and a kickoff to a larger effort to retain teachers in order to better serve all DC students.

This workshop explores the photographs of Gordon Parks (1912 – 2006) through creative writing. Drawing upon the exhibition Gordon Parks: The New Tide, 1940–1950, teachers will consider Parks’s use of photography as a narrative device while engaging in writing activities inspired by his work.

Join D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice, Center for Inspired Teaching, and D.C. area teachers for a D.C. Area Black Lives Matter Week of Action in Schools planning meeting.

This session for early childhood teachers will provide time to explore the representation of Native Americans in children’s literature and address issues of representation and history in developmentally appropriate ways.

Do you want to increase your confidence and ability to teach about Native Americans during the month of November? Learn how to teach the history of Thanksgiving in culturally appropriate ways, explore the Americans exhibition, and engage in take-away art activities in this hands-on workshop.

Join the NMAI for a symposium in which expert speakers explore the need and how to transform education about Native Americans in order to inspire a more comprehensive vision of history and a greater understanding of our shared experiences.

Join award-winning Haitian-American children's book author Francie Latour and artist/illustrator Ken Daley for a celebration of Haiti's colors and Haiti's heroes with their new picture book, Auntie Luce's Talking Paintings. This interactive, family-friendly event will feature a story time, live art demonstration, book signing, Haitian Heroes craft activity, and a special book prize giveaway!

Celebrate Day of the Dead/Día de los Muertos at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC! Cultural experts will lead a series of vibrant performances, bilingual demonstrations, and activities that will immerse students in this traditional celebration. 

In this talk, H. Richard Milner IV examines practices and policies at national, state, district, and local levels that are implicitly or overtly designed to punish rather than support academic, social, cultural, and psychological development of Black, Brown, and low-income students.

Join historians Mara Cherkasky and Sarah Jane Shoenfeld of Prologue DC for a preview of Mapping Segregation’s new website, along with a panel discussion moderated by WAMU’s Sasha-Ann Simons on how Mapping Segregation helps define the intersection of race and real estate in DC’s past and present.

The 2018 East of the River Book Festival is a magnet for city dwellers from all wards to enjoy a literary event that highlights the efforts of indie writers, small publishers and independent book shops. This festival will inspire and excite those who enjoy culturally diverse books and have an interest in self-publishing.

Pulitzer Center invites K-12 educators to join them on Saturday, October 20 from 10:00 AM -2:30 PM for a free, interactive workshop with journalist Austin Merrill, cofounder of the viral social media phenomenon Everyday Africa. Participants will work with Merrill and Pulitzer Center staff to…

Hear from DC Public and Public Charter School Teachers on Pressing Issues in DC Education. 

Featuring Meg Medina , Cuban American author 

Break Out Sessions Will Include

• International Literacy Project

• Multicultural Literacy Activities

• Multicultural Books

Join Duende District at Walls of Books for a special event, featuring Meg Medina, author of the new middle grade novel, MERCI SUAREZ CHANGES GEARS. She'll be in conversation with students from the Latin American Youth Center to celebrate the new edition of VOCES SIN FRONTERAS, from Shout Mouse Press.

This event is free to attend with no reservation required. Seating is available on a first come, first served basis.

DC area teachers: Sign up now for a free workshop on Saturday with a film, chance to meet filmmakers, lunch, and classroom resources.

Jesse Hagopian teaches Ethnic Studies and is the co-adviser to the Black Student Union at Garfield High School in Seattle, Washington–the site of the historic boycott of the MAP test in 2013.  He is an editor for the social justice periodical Rethinking Schools, the co-editor of the new book, Teaching for Black Lives, and the editor of the book, More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing.

This year marks the 25th year that the Consortium of Latin American Studies Programs and CLASP will honor the work of the many authors, illustrators, publishers, educators, and readers of the award with 2018 award winners Ibi Zoboi and Duncan Tonatiuh.

Join CLASP in Washington, D.C. during Hispanic Heritage month to celebrate 25 years of the Américas Award with this year’s winners, honor books and commended titles at the award ceremony Friday, September 28th at the Library of Congress.

Across DC, Black girls are losing out on the chance to learn simply because of what they wear. According to a recent report by the National Women’s Law Center and 21 local students, girls are removed from the classroom and even sent home, often illegally, for violating strict dress codes. Join a panel of organizers, students, scholars, and administrators to learn how to combat this issue and join the DC movement to end school pushout.

In Cuba, education is a national priority. In the US, education is under attack. Watch a double feature of the films Lucha Si! Fight for Public Education in Puerto Rico (30 min) and Maestra (33 min). Meet the directors and talk with those on the front lines of the struggle.

On Sept. 24, 2018, The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress will host an afternoon symposium that explores the themes of cultural work, geography, and community as manifest in the history of three organizations who trace their beginnings to the swell of social change that emerged in 1968: the Center for Traditional Music and Dance, Appalshop, and the Drum and Spear Bookstore. Free and open to the public. No registration or tickets required. Seating is limited. 

Hear organizers and activists lift up their stories and victories in the fight for educational justice and discuss future directions for building intersectional social justice movements.