From December 5-7, we hosted the Zinn Education Project booth and workshops at the annual National Council for the Social Studies conference in Washington, D.C.
Our team offered workshops on our lessons including Teaching a People’s History of the March on Washington, Teaching the History of the Climate Crisis, Teaching for Climate Justice Through Stories of Crisis and Possibility, Who Killed Reconstruction? A Trial Role Play, The First Era of Multiracial Democracy: What Really Happened During Reconstruction, and Snapshots of Joy: Using Photo Analysis to Challenge Dominant Narratives.
At the Zinn Education Project exhibit hall booth, we introduced teachers to our campaign to teach truthfully about the American Revolution, Teach Reconstruction campaign, Climate Justice campaign, Teaching for Black Lives study groups, Teach the Black Freedom Struggle classes, Rethinking Schools books and magazine, and more.
A large banner featured our seven questions to rethink 1776. We invited teachers to sign up to teach truthfully about the American Revolution and gave away copies of the National Museum of the American Indians’ new poster on Native women in the American Revolution.
Thanks to donations from New Press and an individual donor, we offered copies of King of the North by Jeanne Theoharis and The Rediscovery of America by Ned Blackhawk in appreciation for teaching stories. We also offered titles from earlier giveaways including The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks and The Sum of Us.
Our partner booth, People’s History in the Digital Age, featured people’s history digital collections with representatives from the Colored Conventions Project, Howard Zinn.org, and the SNCC Legacy Project (who also presented a workshop on their toolkits.) There were also materials (and in some cases representatives) from the American Social History Project; Black Teacher Archive; Densho; John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History; Last Seen Project; Mapping Deportations; New York City Civil Rights History Project; and the Virginia Interscholastic Association.
We had a chance to visit with colleagues from fellow exhibitors at Americans Who Tell the Truth, Beacon Press, Haymarket Books, New Day Films, the Outreach Centers of the African Studies Association (including at Howard University), Right Question Institute, Seven Stories Press, and TeachRock.
Throughout the conference, our Prentiss Charney fellows presented workshops, assisted at the booth, and assisted with workshops by our colleagues.
Teaching Stories
Teachers share their classroom experiences using Zinn Education Project materials.
Related Workshops
The conference included related workshops offered by friends of the Zinn Education Project.
This included SNCC Learning Toolkits: SNCC’s Organizing and What It Teaches Us for Today
Trouble in Censorville: Stories from Teachers Who Are Fighting Back based on the Trouble in Censorville book and website, with Misty Crompton, Matthew Hawn, and Rebekah Modrak.
More sessions
Critical Teaching of Asian America in Elementary Classrooms
Democracy at Work: Teaching Workplace Rights Through PBL
Searching for Truth in the Garden: Gonzaga’s History with Slavery
Complicating George Washington with Children’s Literature
Uniting Educators: Building Social Justice Working Groups for Collective Impact
Centering Palestine: Inquiry, Media Literacy, and Justice in Education
Indigenous in the American Revolution: Lessons from the Oneida and Virginia’s Indigenous
1960s Racial Coalition Building with the Black Panther Party
Examining the Paradox of Independence and the Promise of Freedom
Monument (al) Challenges: A Toolkit for Teaching Contested Histories Through Monuments
Fugitive Pedagogies: Examining Historical Black American Pedagogy to Illuminate the Path Ahead
Reception
We hosted our annual dinner reception with Zinn Education Project educators in town for the conference and local allies. This year the speakers were Jelani Cobb and Clint Smith.
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