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

Celebrate the 49th year of the Hispanic Festival with a Photography Exhibition. The Photography Exhibition presents the work of Nancy Shia.

Prism DMV is hosting a Back to School Happy Hour for LGBTQ+ educators & allies. Kids and and families welcome.

The tragedy of US involvement in Puerto Rico, tracing the decades of economic and political exploitation that led to the debt crisis, hobbled the hurricane recovery efforts, and forced the island into a state of despair. In Fantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation, & the Betrayal of Puerto Rico, journalist Ed Morales uncovers the roots of the crisis.

Join the National Museum of the American Indian, Teaching for Change, and other D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice to engage with curriculum and strategies for teaching students about Indigenous Peoples' history and life today.

Artists & Activists Address the Role of Guns in Our Culture
June 1 – August 25, 2019
Hours: Wednesday-Friday, 4-7 pm & Saturday 12-6 PM, Sunday 1-5 pm

PLAY – PROTECTION – PERIL is an art exhibition in D.C. that explores how we respond (or how we don’t respond) to gun violence in schools.

The goal of this summit is to enable students and faculty to transform their passion for inclusion and dialogue into a tangible storytelling platform, both at their own school and regionally. Connect with students/faculty from 30+ other area schools in person and through an interschool issue.

Teaching for Change is honored to co-facilitate an event for parents of young children (ages 0-6) at the National Museum of African American History & Culture with Dr. Beverly Tatum.

Politics and Prose hosts this event for Ibram X. Kendi for his new book, How To Be An Antiracist.

Come learn about the current political situation in Kashmir, and specifically the impact of the scrapping of articles 370 and the 35A provision, which India has used to strip Kashmir of its special status. This action by the Indian state means that India is furthering its settler-colonial project in Kashmir.

As we prepare for a new school year, please join CJSF and our partners and friends for a conversation that will highlight resources and solutions to achieve the schools all students deserve—spaces of love, healing, justice, and joy. If you're an educator, funder, advocate or organizer, this conversation is for you.

All DC area social justice teachers, administration, and advocates are invited to the First Annual Ready Set Glow Peace Rally for Makiyah Lee Wilson.

Learn more about Mary McLeod Bethune by visiting some of the same places she would frequent during her time as a Washington resident, while also learning how the special places that make up this local history are preserved and memorialized.

Author Rebecca Tuuri, PhD will discuss her recent book, Strategic Sisterhood: The National Council of Negro Women in the Black Freedom Struggle, highlighting the National Council of Negro Women’s behind-the-scenes efforts fighting racism, poverty, and sexism in the late twentieth century.

ONE DC’s Juneteenth Community Learning Event will feature historians, community organizers, and artists speaking about the history and significance of Juneteenth, as well as the current struggle for liberation today.

Juneteenth is an annual celebration to commemorate the emancipation of enslaved Black people in Texas on June 19, 1865. This is a time to reflect on our collective history of fighting for emancipation and equity, to celebrate and be joyful about our triumphs, and to recommit with passion and discipline to the current struggle for liberation.

Join D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice to walk in the Capital Area Pride Parade on June 9.

DC youth are trying to get our attention. In our annual spring exhibit, they're sharing the photos, stories, and issues that matter most to them as they fight for education equity and social justice.

Written as a critical survey of leading American history textbooks, Loewen’s classic Lies my Teacher Told Me has sold nearly two million copies. The new Young Readers Edition streamlines the content to confront many salient historical myths, including the actual story of the first Thanksgiving, Helen Keller’s socialist ties, the truth behind United States’ military interventions from Latin America to Iraq, and more.

In the fall, D.C. area teachers embarked on a journey to write about their work through a social justice lens. You are invited to join our end of year celebration. You will learn how the teachers deepened their own practice, created a powerful learning community, and wrote articles that will contribute to the all-too-scarce collection of published descriptions of classroom practice by teachers. 

Challenges and Resilience from Young Leaders in the Immigrant Community at Haydee's, 3102 Mt. Pleasant St, every Thursday in May from 5-7 PM. 

Join the National Women’s Law Center for a conversation on Arjun Sethi’s book American Hate: Survivors Speak Out and the effects of harassment, discrimination, and violence on not only those whose stories he collected, but also on our society at large, and how the legal community – and all of our communities – can be on the front lines of combating and resisting hate.

Drawing on her life’s work teaching and researching in urban schools, Bettina Love's We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom persuasively argues that educators must teach students about racial violence, oppression, and how to make sustainable change in their communities through radical civic initiatives and movements.

Join Learn Together, Live Together as we commemorate Bolling and elevate the history of school diversity and equity in DC. This community event will explore the history and present context of school diversity, foster conversations on how to address issues of inequity, and develop next steps for creating a cohesive vision and movement for diverse, equitable, and inclusive schools for all students in DC.  Light refreshments and childcare provided.

The Outreach Team at the Howard University Center for African Studies invites you to the Spring 2019 Mwalimu Teaching Community meeting.

Participants will hear from Arjun Singh Sethi, author of  American Hate: Survivors Speak Out, and engage in part of Teaching for Change curriculum writer Alison Kysia's lesson based upon the book. The first 50 educators to register and attend will receive a free copy of the book and a lesson plan.