DCAESJ Partner Event | Join EmpowerEd at the 2025 DC Teacher Voice Awards & Benefit. Educators are rising to the occasion and EmpowerEd is celebrating them and their mission and accomplishments.

Join DMV Dream Defenders for our screening of the HBO docuseries "Eyes on the Prize III, Episode 6: What Comes After Hope?"

Join a range of #TeachTruth activities at Pike Kitchen Food Hall. There will be a non-fiction book swap (bring a book, take a book), photo booth, art station, rally, and interactive Teach Truth pop-up display.

DCAESJ Event | A walk/march from the National Museum of African American History Culture (NMAAHC) to National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), to highlight the censorship of history in schools and museums.

TFC Partner Event | Shout Mouse Press celebrates the publication of The Light Looks Like Me: Words on Love by Queer Youth, a multi-genre anthology exploring LGBTQ+ love.

TFC Co-Sponsored Event | Authors, educators, parents, and artists including Kwame Alexander, Ibram X. Kendi, Jason Reynolds, will gather to stand-up for creative expression, access to all books, and the freedom to learn.

From student crises to district mandates, educators are holding more than ever with less support than ever. This 90-minute virtual Community Care Circle allows school staff to exhale, connect, and remember: you're not in this alone.

Join The Nicholson Project in celebrating the opening of Song of Sons, a new public art installation by Nate Langston Palmer.

Join Busboys and Poets to explore 400 years of protest and resistance in U.S. history – and what the unsung heroes of social movements past can teach us about navigating our chaotic world.

Online event with historians Jarvis Givens and Imani Perry in conversation with Teaching for Black Lives co-editor Jesse Hagopian and Rethinking Schools executive director Cierra Kaler-Jones. They will discuss the Black Teacher Archive.

This May 3rd, fight for the Freedom to Learn and multiracial democracy!

Join NEA and Casa de Maryland at Lafayette Park on May 1st to make our voices heard for better, safer, stronger communities.

ONE SHOW ONLY! Watch the untold story of the first organized interracial civil rights protest in U.S. history and director Ilana Trachtman will be in attendance for a Q&A!

With the risk of federally forced cuts looming and our local budget process delayed, come share your perspectives and priorities as DC leaders consider what to do next.

Participants will hear from historian Hilary N. Green on her new book, Unforgettable Sacrifice How Black Communities Remembered the Civil War.

Join FCFT, FCPS workers, parents, students, and our community and labor partners for a rally to fund our schools outside the Fairfax County Government Center.

The Coalition for Inclusive Schools & Communities and the Montgomery County Pride Family are mobilizing a powerful rally at the U.S. Supreme Court in support of inclusive education. As the Court hears a pivotal case on the right to inclusive education and representation, human rights advocates, educators, students, families, artists, and faith leaders will unite in a bold, joyful show of solidarity.

Join BSU-UMD Social Justice Alliance and the 2nd Lt. Richard W. Collins III Foundation for the 7th Annual BSU-UMD Social Justice Alliance (SJA) Symposium.

10th annual Howard/Georgetown University Children and Youth Literature Workshop for Teachers, featuring award-winning books from the CABA and MEOC Book Awards.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: April 10. The Civil War to Civil Rights: Reconstruction educator workshop provides a comprehensive look at the transformative period following the American Civil War, with a focus on the evolution of voting rights, education and civil rights.

Congress is threatening the funding for our schools and everything D.C. families hold dear. We won’t stay silent - let’s keep making noise! 

TFC EVENT | Attend the Little City Concerts Commission, titled Rest/Imagine: Themes for a Bloodline by drummer and composer Keith Butler, Jr. Written for Seysew (flute, piano, bass, drums), this piece is a rumination on literacy, black imagination, and the often unspoken history of families.

Join Politics and Prose at Union Market for a conversation with award-winning author Jeanne Theoharis about her myth-shattering new book, King of the North: Martin Luther King’s Freedom Struggle Outside of the South, and King's legacy.

Are you a people’s history buff? Join Teaching for Change for a fun night of questions and answers about the history often missing from textbooks—the role of women, people of color, labor, and other social movements.

Join EmpowerEd Saturday, March 22nd for an action-packed day of teacher solutions! There are so many pressing needs in D.C.'s education scene and D.C. teachers have solutions to better serve our students, families, educators and schools.

Join EmpowerEd for a relaxed and creative Paint + Chat designed specifically for Black educators.