Please join us to celebrate the Zinn Education Project’s 18th year while we are in Philadelphia for the National Council for the Teachers of English conference.
We are hosting our annual dinner reception on Saturday, November 21. We are overjoyed to have two wonderful, award-winning authors who will share brief remarks on this special occasion: Renée Watson and Brian Jones.
Our annual receptions are abuzz with joyful reunions, radical ideas, impromptu curriculum planning, and (for those attending NCTE) just hanging out away from the convention center.
You’ll be joined by people’s historians, archivists, authors, Rethinking Schools editors, Teaching for Change staff, teachers who use Zinn Education Project lessons, Freedom Summer veterans, teacher educators, filmmakers, artists, and more.
Join us anytime from 6:30pm to 9:30pm at Ocean Harbor (1023 Race St.), just a ten minute walk from the Convention Center. Buffet style dinner with cash bar. We suggest a donation of $25 (or more) to defray costs.
Space is limited, so this event is invitational and RSVP is required. You are welcome to share the invitation with a friend or colleague, but please do not post it anywhere nor share it in group emails.
Featured Speakers and MC
Books from all three authors will be available for purchase and signing.
Renée Watson is a #1 New York Times bestselling author with over one million books sold. TIME named Watson a 2026 Visionary, honoring her commitment to helping children and young people reach their full potential. Watson has spent her career writing about Black girls finding their power, communities rebuilding after loss, and the quiet dignity of being seen. That work has earned her some of the most prestigious honors in children’s and young adult literature. Her latest book is All the Blues in the Sky and her work appears in numerous Rethinking Schools publications, including Teaching for Black Lives. Read more.
Brian Jones is the inaugural director of the Center for Educators and Schools of the New York Public Library, and formerly the associate director of Education at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Jones was an elementary school teacher for nine years and earned a PhD in Urban Education at the CUNY Graduate Center. He has contributed to numerous publications, including Black Lives Matter at School: An Uprising for Educational Justice and is the author of Black History Is for Everyone and The Tuskegee Student Uprising: A History.
Jesse Hagopian is an editor for Rethinking Schools, co-editor of Teaching for Black Lives, editor of More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing, author of Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education, and the Teaching for Black Lives campaign director for the Zinn Education Project. He previously taught Ethnic Studies and was the co-adviser to the Black Student Union at Garfield High School in Seattle.
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