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Teaching for Change is partnering with Filmfest DC: The Washington, DC International Film Festival for an eighth year to spread the word about the international film festival and to bring filmmakers into D.C. classrooms April 25-May 5.
Join DCPS teachers and others who care about education in D.C. at the Rally to Fund Our Future. Tell Council members that they must fully fund neighborhood public schools.
Join BECA (Bilingual Education for Central America) for a conversation that moves past walls and beyond borders. In today's world of deepening inequity, so many Central American families are being torn apart by the need to risk a dangerous journey north to provide for their families or keep them safe — a journey that offers no guarantees for safe arrival. But, there are other paths forward and BECA is one of them. Join us as we journey through dialogue to Honduras to meet the students, families, and teachers who are collaborating every day in BECA's three community-led bilingual schools.
The nation's top authors of race and racial justice will converge in Washington, DC at the 1st Annual Antiracist Book Festival on Saturday, April 27, 2019.
Join Politics & Prose for an event in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Coretta Scott King Award. Eloise Greenfield and Jason Reynolds will be in conversation with Deborah D. Taylor, a youth librarian and recipient of the 2015 Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Practitioner Award for Lifetime Achievement.
This session for early childhood educators (serving students ages 0-8), hosted by Teaching for Change's D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice, will explore ways teach about different abilities, including visible and invisible disabilities. Participants will explore a multitude of book titles and teaching resources.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Critical Exposure trains DC youth how to harness the power of photography and their own voices to fight for education equity and social justice.
Join D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice to walk in the Capital Area Pride Parade on June 9.
A 35-hour paid professional development opportunity to learn to effectively integrate geospatial technologies (GIS) to enhance student learning in existing lessons.
A professional development immersion, 3-credit course for educators in the Washington, D.C. metro area and beyond. During the immersion, teachers will visit cultural sites, work with historically important archives, discuss readings and hear from Salvadoran and Central American scholars. The course was developed to create a more culturally relevant and equitable education. It includes pre-immersion, in-country travel and post-immersion work.
The Tellin’ Stories Race, Equity, and Family Engagement Summer Institutes will teach participants to apply an asset-based lens to family engagement that is grounded in popular education, community organizing, racial equity, and family engagement research.
Registration will close when filled or by May 31, 2019.
A professional development immersion, 3-credit course for educators in the Washington, D.C. metro area and beyond. During the immersion, teachers will visit cultural sites, work with historically important archives, discuss readings and hear from Salvadoran and Central American scholars. The course was developed to create a more culturally relevant and equitable education. It includes pre-immersion, in-country travel and post-immersion work.
The Early Childhood Summer Organizing Leadership Institute will bring together 20-25 early childhood educators and advocates from across the country to spend several days developing leadership skills and advocating on Capitol Hill. The institute will provide early childhood advocates with the opportunity to learn various organizing skills, identify threats to the early childhood profession, network with other early childhood leaders, and develop a platform for protecting childhood that is centered on racial and social justice.
The Tellin’ Stories Race, Equity, and Family Engagement Summer Institutes will teach participants to apply an asset-based lens to family engagement that is grounded in popular education, community organizing, racial equity, and family engagement research.
Registration will close when filled or by June 28, 2019
A professional development immersion, 3-credit course for educators in the Washington, D.C. metro area and beyond. During the immersion, teachers will visit cultural sites, work with historically important archives, discuss readings and hear from Salvadoran and Central American scholars. The course was developed to create a more culturally relevant and equitable education. It includes pre-immersion, in-country travel and post-immersion work.
September 7, 2019 is the tentative date for this event. Join the National Museum of the American Indian and D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice (a Teaching for Change project) for a teach-in on Indigenous Peoples. Engage with curriculum and strategies for teaching students about Indigenous Peoples' history and life today. The speakers and workshops will include resources from Native Knowledge 360° and the campaign to abolish Columbus Day.
What if everything you thought you knew about educating Black children was based on BS (bad stats)? In No BS (Bad Stats): Black People Need People Who Believe in Black People Enough Not to Believe Every Bad Thing They Hear about Black People, Toldson uses data analysis, anecdotes, and powerful commentary to dispel common myths and challenge conventional beliefs about educating Black children.
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.
The 2009 Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal was the subject of national headlines. In None of the Above: The Untold Story of the Atlanda Public Schools Cheating Scandal, Corporate Greed, and the Criminalization of Educators, Shani Robinson, one of the teachers charged and ultimately convicted as part of the scandal, and journalist Anna Simonton show how school employees were collateral damage in a crisis caused by an education reform movement that is increasingly shaped by business interests.
Join ONE DC & We Act Radio to commemorate 400 years of inequality and 400 years of resistance. An interactive political education workshop will be held, followed by a screening of the new documentary film, What Happened 2 Chocolate City.
A professional development immersion, 3-credit course for educators in the Washington, D.C. metro area and beyond. During the immersion, teachers will visit cultural sites, work with historically important archives, discuss readings and hear from Salvadoran and Central American scholars. The course was developed to create a more culturally relevant and equitable education. It includes pre-immersion, in-country travel and post-immersion work.
The NMAAHC Early Childhood Education Initiative is excited to host a Family Day on Saturday, April 13th from 11:00am-2:00pm inspired by the Museum’s first children’s book, A is for All the Things You Are: A Joyful ABC Book, written by Anna Forgerson Hindley and illustrated by Keturah A. Bobo.
Join D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice, a project of Teaching for Change, and the Howard University School of Education for workshops facilitated by the Zinn Education Project, Howard University faculty, and more.
The Food Justice Youth Summit is an all-day event in which DC youth lead workshops focusing on issues of food justice.
This special interactive presentation for teachers, camp counselors, educators and directors will focus on how we can introduce children to the the topic of women's basketball.
This program is designed to help participants build their advocacy toolkits so the work we do together in Washington, DC, can have long-term implications for their engagement in policy after the summit is over.
Bring the family and enjoy meeting the authors and illustrators, art activities, storytelling, face painting, and light refreshments.
Recommended for ages 8 and up. Kwame Alexander, poet, educator, host and producer of the literary variety/talk show Bookish, cofounding director of the LEAP for Ghana initiative, and founding editor of VERSIFY, an imprint of HMH Books for Young Readers; in conversation with artist Kadir Nelson. Moderated by Kevin Merida, senior vice president and editor-in-chief, ESPN.
The Children’s Africana Book Awards (CABA) are presented annually to the authors and illustrators of the best children’s and young adult books on Africa published or republished in the U.S. The awards were created by Africa Access and the Outreach Council of the African Studies Association (ASA) to encourage the publication and use of accurate, balanced children’s materials about Africa.
MSEA’s 2019 IPD Conference theme is Advancing Social Justice for the Common Good. Workshops have been designed to help educators tackle the tough classroom issues of bias, student trauma, cyber safety, and discrimination in the workplace. Presenters include MSEA & NEA members and staff, as well as community experts from local universities and organizations.
This presentation will trace how Western technoculture employs technology and policy to codify racism. Black men and women become “Black technical objects” subject to brutal policing based upon informational practices derived from Western labor history, Jim Crow vagrancy laws, “broken windows” policing, hip hop, and more.
Split This Rock Youth Programs presents the 2019 DC Youth Slam Team (DCYST) GRAND SLAM FINALS, featuring Mahogany L. Browne. Don't miss this opportunity to hear the next generation of socially engaged poets speak their minds.
At this teacher workshop, you will talk with Indigenous women activists, such as Madonna Thunder Hawk and her daughter, Marcy Gilbert, make a journal with Lumbee guest artist, Ashely Minner, and explore the museum’s galleries and contemporary art to deepen your knowledge of Indigenous women’s roles and contributions.
The meetup seeks to reconnect Data for Black Lives conference attendees and to share insights with those who were not able to attend. The meeting will also connect local organizers and activists with scientists and technologists to discuss some of the big issues being faced by community members and how data science can be used to tackle these issues.
There is limited space available, so now is the time to register for Cinema Classroom at the Avalon's screening of the wonderful documentary, Dolores. This film, selected in recognition of Women's History Month, will be shown on March 19 & 20 at 10AM.
Join facilitators Reba Thomas, Elsa Duré, and other women of color for a conversation where they share their self-care evolutions and journeys towards self-healing.
Help celebrate the launch of Melanie S. Hatter's second novel, Malawi's Sisters, which won the inaugural Kimbilio National Fiction Prize, selected by Edwidge Danticat.
Join Politics and Prose for an evening celebrating these stories with National Book Award winner Elizabeth Acevedo and former Delaware Poet Laureate JoAnn Balingit in conversation with the book’s editor, Patrice Vecchione.
On March 15th, 2019, D.C. will join the international movement and strike to show the climate crisis is the most important issue humanity faces. Strikes will be taking place across the United States and more than 40 countries worldwide.
Since 2015, Stories from Our Classrooms has raised the voices of teacher-writers in national debates about education. Join us to hear DC area educators share uplifting stories from their classrooms. Our stories will touch your hearts!
The Dreamers Alliance at Trinity is partnering with filmmaker St. Clair Detrick-Jules to show DACAmented, a 40-minute film that chronicles the lives of nine DACA recipients, most of whom are from the DC area.
Maryland public schools are underfunded by $2.9 billion annually — an average of $2 million in every school across the state. Students, educators, and schools deserve better. On March 11th, Join March for Our Schools to make sure that every student in every neighborhood has a great public school and an equal opportunity for success.
In March 1996, Mahmoud Abdul Rauf (formerly Chris Jackson), an all-star guard for the Denver Nuggets and an African American Muslim convert, was suspended by the NBA for not standing for the national anthem. Tracing his evolution from icon of the American dream to an "un-American foreigner," this timely film documents the history of anti-Muslim racism and xenophobia through the story of one man's spiritual journey turned public trial.
Please join us to celebrate the success of the second annual D.C. Area Black Lives Matter Week of Action in Schools.
In celebration of Black History Month, Dr. Musgrove will discuss his book: Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital. Copies of the book available for sale ($35).
Rooting DC is a FREE, all-day urban gardening forum that provides education about urban agriculture and food systems, cultivates health and protection of the environment, and builds community.
