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The New Teacher Book (Book) | Zinn Education Project

The New Teacher Book: Finding Purpose, Balance, and Hope During Your First Years in the Classroom

Teaching Guide. Edited By Linda Christensen, Stan Karp, Bob Peterson, Moé Yonamine. 376 pages. 2019. Rethinking Schools. Offers practical guidance on how to flourish in schools and classrooms and connect in meaningful ways with students and families from all cultures and backgrounds.

Time Periods: 21st Century

Themes: Education

New York and Slavery: Time to Teach the Truth

Teaching Guide. By Alan J. Singer. 2008. Narrative description of slavery in the north and strategies for engaging young people as historians on the topic.

Time Periods: 18th Century, 19th Century

Themes: African American, Slavery and Resistance

Open Minds to Equality: A Sourcebook of Learning Activities to Affirm Diversity and Promote Equity

Teaching Guide. By Nancy Schniedewind and Ellen Davidson. 4th Edition. 408 pages. 2014. Rethinking Schools. Full of activities to help students explore inequalities and cooperation.

Themes: Racism & Racial Identity

Panama, the 1991 Gulf War, and the War at Home

Teaching Activity. By Robert Standish. Questions and teaching ideas for Chapter 22 of Voices of a People’s History of the United States on Panama, the 1991 Gulf War, and the War on the Poor in the United States.

Time Periods: 20th Century, Post-Civil Rights Era: 1975 - 2000

Themes: US Foreign Policy, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements

A People’s Curriculum for the Earth: Teaching Climate Change and the Environmental Crisis

Teaching Guide. Edited by Bill Bigelow and Tim Swinehart. 400 pages. 2014. Rethinking Schools. Articles, student readings, and teaching activities to understand environmental problems and imagine solutions.

Themes: Climate Justice, Environment, Science

A People’s History for the Classroom

Teaching Guide. By Bill Bigelow. 120 pages. 2008. Rethinking Schools. Lessons to introduce students to a more accurate, complex, and engaging understanding of U.S. history than is found in traditional textbooks and curricula. Published by Rethinking Schools.

Time Periods: All US History

Themes: Education

Planning to Change the World 2019 - 2020 (Book) | Zinn Education Project

Planning to Change the World: A Plan Book for Social Justice Teachers

Plan book. Edited By Gretchen Brion-Meisels, Thomas Nikundiwe, Carla Shalaby. Rethinking Schools. Plan book designed to help teachers translate their vision of a just education into concrete classroom activities.

Themes: Education

The Power In Our Hands: A Curriculum on the History of Work and Workers in the United States

Teaching Guide. By Bill Bigelow and Norm Diamond. 1988. Role plays and writing activities project high school students into real-life situations to explore the history and contemporary reality of employment (and unemployment) in the U.S.

Time Periods: 19th Century, Industrial Revolution: 1877 - 1899, 20th Century, Prosperity, Depression, & World War II: 1920 - 1944

Themes: Economics, Labor, Organizing, Racism & Racial Identity

The Power of the Story: The Voice of Witness Teacher’s Guide to Oral History

Teaching Guide. Edited by Cliff Mayotte. 2013 (2nd edition). A guide to explore contemporary issues through oral history, and to develop the communication skills necessary for creating oral history projects in communities.

Themes: Language Arts, World History/Global Studies

Preparing the Revolution

Teaching Activity. By Gayle Olson-Raymer. Questions and teaching ideas for Chapter 4 of Voices of a People's History of the United States on class differences and internal dissent before and during the Revolutionary War.

Themes: Democracy & Citizenship, Social Class

Protesting the First World War

Teaching Activity. By Colby Smart. Questions and teaching ideas for Chapter 14 of Voices of a People's History of the United States on anti-war efforts during the first World War, as well as the U.S. government's response.

Time Periods: 20th Century, World War I: 1910 - 1919, Prosperity, Depression, & World War II: 1920 - 1944

Themes: Wars & Related Anti-War Movements

Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching

Teaching Guide and Website. Edited by Deborah Menkart, Alana D. Murray, and Jenice L. View. 2004. Provides lessons and articles for K-12 educators on how to go beyond a heroes approach to the Civil Rights Movement, with a focus on education, economics, labor, youth, women, and culture.

Time Periods: 20th Century, People’s Movement: 1961 - 1974

Themes: Civil Rights Movements, Organizing

Race and Membership in American History

Teaching Guide. By Alan Stoskopf. Facing History and Ourselves. 2002. Resources for teaching about the eugenics movement in the United States.

Time Periods: 20th Century, Turn of the Century: 1900 - 1909

Themes: Racism & Racial Identity, Science

Reading, Writing, and Rising Up (Teaching Guide) | Zinn Education Project: Teaching People's History

Reading, Writing, and Rising Up: Teaching About Social Justice and the Power of the Written Word

Teaching Guide. By Linda Christensen. 314 pages. 2017, 2nd edition. Rethinking Schools. Lessons for teaching a range of writing genres while addressing social justice themes.

Themes: Education, Language Arts

The Reconstruction Era and the Fragility of Democracy

Teaching Guide. By Facing History and Ourselves. 2015. A collection of lessons, videos, and primary sources to teach about Reconstruction.

Time Periods: 19th Century, Reconstruction Period: 1865 - 1876

Themes: African American, Reconstruction, Democracy & Citizenship, Laws & Citizen Rights, Racism & Racial Identity

Resistance in Paradise: Rethinking 100 Years of U.S. Involvement in the Caribbean and the Pacific

Teaching Guide. Edited by Debbie Wei and Rachel Kamel. 1998. 199 pages. Readings and teaching ideas for high school students on the Spanish-American War.

Time Periods: 19th Century, Industrial Revolution: 1877 - 1899

Themes: Pacific Islander, US Foreign Policy, Wars & Related Anti-War Movements

Rethinking Bilingual Education (Book Cover) | Zinn Education Project

Rethinking Bilingual Education: Welcoming home languages in our classrooms

Teaching Guide. Edited by Elizabeth Barbian, Grace Gonzales, and Pilar Mejia. 344 pages. 2017. Rethinking Schools. This collection of articles reveals the many ways that teachers bring students’ home languages into their classroom.

Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years

Teaching Guide. Edited by Bill Bigelow and Bob Peterson. 192 pages. 2003. Rethinking Schools. Readings and lessons for grades 5 to 12 about the impact and legacy of the arrival of Columbus in the Americas.

Time Periods: Colonization: 1492 - 1764

Themes: Native American

Rethinking Early Childhood Education

Teaching Guide. Edited by Ann Pelo. 256 pages. 2008. Rethinking Schools. Lessons and articles about social justice early childhood education. Published by Rethinking Schools.

Rethinking Elementary Education

Teaching Guide. Edited by Linda Christensen, Mark Hansen, and Bob Peterson. 360 pages. 2012. Rethinking Schools. The best collection of writing from Rethinking Schools magazine about how to teach for social justice at the elementary level. Published by Rethinking Schools.

Themes: Education