From November 19-22, the Zinn Education Project will host a booth and workshops at the annual National Council of the Teachers of English convention in Philadelphia.
At the Zinn Education Project exhibit hall booth (#915), we will introduce our campaigns to teach truthfully about the American Revolution, Teach Reconstruction, and Climate Justice; Teaching for Black Lives study groups; Teach the Black Freedom Struggle classes; Rethinking Schools books and magazine; Teaching for Change’s Social Justice Books; and more.
Our neigboring booth (#1014) is “People’s History in the Digital Age,” coordinated by Teaching for Change and HowardZinn.org. The booth will feature digital collections of the voices and histories missing from mainstream history.
Our team members are offering the following workshops:
Friday
2:45 – 3:15 Teaching Central America: Central American Narratives for Culturally Responsive Instruction and Historical Literacy Development Jonathan Peraza Campos, Teaching for Change
3:30 – 4:45 Piecing Us Together: Using Newberry Medal Winner Renée Watson’s Fiction to Rewrite Our History and Disrupt Injustice Linda C. and Renee Watson
Saturday
7:30 am 2026 NCTE Leadership Award Recipients Exemplify Excellence in ELA Education including Jesse Hagopian and Brian Jones
1:15 – 2:30pm From Survival to Solidarity: Building Collective Spaces to Support Antiracist ELA Teaching Jesse, Julia, Nataliya, Kushya, et al.
We will check out these other sessions that look of interest:
Friday, 12:30 – 1:45 Teaching Palestine Through Poetry
Saturday, 1:15 to 2:30pm This Panel Is Probably Banned: Teaching Climate Change while Being Told Not To
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