Signatures
This is the list of people who have signed the pledge or petition to date.
Andrea Barrera , AZ
I will always stand for the truth, no matter how inconvenient it is for some people.
Dave Stieber | Chicago, IL
Learning the true history of our country (not a male white washed version) is essential to the positive growth of our country for everyone.
Katherine Frett | Chicago, IL
a movement against teacher critical race theory is really just protecting and promoting white supremacy. I will teach a full and robust, truthful picture of the history of this country and classifications of identity we have used to control groups of people in order to maintain hierarchy.
Ashley Busby | Oakland, CA
James Cavallero | Chicago, IL
I want students to understand the roots of inequality today and give them the tools to shape a just future.
amy shinabarger | Chandler, AZ
Shanna Hunter | San Antonio, TX
My kids DESERVE to know the truth. They deserve to be taught real history and they deserve to know what happened to their ancestors.
Michael Shea | Chicago, IL
Hadeel Jeanne | Seattle, WA
Barbara Barnes | San Francisco, CA
A strong polity requires well-informed, critical thinking members.
Rebecca Coven | Chicago, IL
Lauren Scott | Albuquerque, NM
I will teach the truth.
Tiffany Carpenter | Pasadena, CA
I believe in an equitable just society that can only be aspired to through honesty and acknowledgement of our present and current systems of white. cis. male supremacy
Shikira Porter | Oakland, CA
Truth allows us to be and do better.
Stephanie Holtman | Washougal, WA
I have a responsibility to my students to be honest with them. As a music teacher, much of our history can be learned through our music, and our children deserve to know that history.
Nelson Veale | Beltsville, MD
I want the real history of the United States and across the world taught in public schools.
Taunya Jaco | San Jose, CA
Educators are truth tellers.
Samantha Ross | Minneapolis, MN
everyone needs to know the truth. We cannot ignore the foundations our country and others have been founded or driven towards building. We cannot continue to perpetuate the cycle of oppression and -ism's that systemically plague our society. Our students deserve to see change and learn about not only how things came to be but also how we can create this change. No erasing the truth!
Stephanie J Clark
History is alive and well we didn’t just start living; because he’s ashamed or afraid. I do not need you to be my Educator nor for my family. I cannot believe someone 40 years old wants to tell the whole world: Families, educators librarian ..., what they should be teaching and what children should be learning. He does not know enough about history, and definitely not my history. Get rid of that legislation, I am alive and well and knowledgeable about my history.
Ariam Abraham | Chicago, IL
My beautiful Black students deserve, at a minimum, to know how their lives are impacted by the realities of the past and present. Erasing our history is erasing ourselves, and our kids deserve too much more.
Jordan Gerdes | Redmond , OR
My students deserve a truthful education. History is messy and complex. It, like humans, exists in nuance, and that’s okay. We must learn all of it, the good and bad, in order to build a better future.
Renee Spencer | Boston, MA
Avril Somerville | Cheltenham Twp, PA
I believe that students must be taught the truth of our history in order to adequately navigate their present and future.
Linda Sprague Martinez | Boston, MA
Selected Pledges
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As an educator who is serious about teaching the truth I will not be bullied into silence. I will do my part in the fight for equity and equality by making sure my students are most equipped to fight this ugliness in the real world.
Yes, the truth of American history needs to be taught, but also its impact on the rest of the world, such as its role in WWII. I just finished teaching a college-level course on the Holocaust, and could not believe how little the students knew about the rest of the world’s participation in the war! They seemed to believe that WWII was ended by the US alone!
“When you begin to do things that raise the achievement of the poorest and disenfranchised students, you may not always get applause. You need to be ready for that.” Dr. Asa Hilliard
“Resistance is a powerful motivator precisely because it enables us to fulfill our longing to achieve our goals while letting us boldly recognize and name the obstacles to those achievements.”
Dr. Derrick Bell
Our young people deserve the truth and it is our kuleana (responsibility) to give space and opportunity for the truth and the difficult conversations.
If we don’t teach it all, we teach nothing…
Social justice is a major theme of my Humanities 7 course, and my school uses Dr. Gholdy Muhammad’s HILL framework (development of identity, skills, knowledge, Criticality) to frame our entire curriculum. Student agency through research work and essay writing, and action-oriented civic engagement work, define what we “cover” in my course.