Teaching for Change

Teaching for Change has won organizational awards from the DC Humanities Council, the National Multicultural Institute, and the National Association for Multicultural Education.

• Parents in 10 schools in Maryland and DC are turning the tables on parent-school relations using our Tellin’ Stories approach, which is growing nationally thanks to a full-length article in Rethinking Schools and a partnership with the National Education Association;
• The National Family, School, and Community Engagement Working Group at Harvard University selected our Tellin’ Stories Project approach as one of twelve examples of leading innovations in family engagement for the US Department of Education;
• Every teacher in the country has access to free downloadable teaching activities about a people’s history on the Zinn Education Project website that we run with Rethinking Schools;
• Our bookstore at Busboys and Poets is one of the few progressive, independent bookstores in the country. People in the DC area and nationally depend on our careful selection (in store and online) and the great series of author events that we coordinate with Busboys and Poets;
• Every 8th grade student in McComb, Mississippi is learning a people’s history of the United States in a course that will be made available to educators statewide;
• Students in McComb, Mississippi are preserving their local history. Four years ago they did not know that McComb was central to the Civil Rights Movement – now they are conducting oral history interviews for posterity;
• Tens of thousands of teachers across the country accessed our Teaching about Haiti online resources after the earthquake. We were the only source of age appropriate materials for K-12 classrooms that emphasized the history of oppression and resistance in Haiti – and grassroots organizing.
• A D.C. school asked us to help them engage the Ethiopian parents using our Tellin’ Stories approach. Now over half of the Ethiopian families are reading in classrooms and coming to meetings.