Signatures
This is the list of people who have signed the pledge or petition to date.
Megan McLamore | Cypress, TX
Kate Fraser | San Antonio, TX
Travis Taylor | Lubbock, TX
Tristan Towne | Seattle, WA
Jen Brown | Saint Petersburg, FL
JOHN ADAMS | Dripping Springs, TX
Diane Ross | Westerville, OH
Michael Bristol | Omaha, NE
My students deserve an engaging, vivid, and intellectually honest discussion of history. To give them anything else is disempowering and patronizing.
Charlotte Pass | Cortland, NY
Aaron Phillips | Amarillo, TX
Our students deserve to be in schools that teach the truth about history, celebrate and respect diverse cultures, and stand up to white supremacy.
Kelly Prince | Eugene, OR
Marlena Wikander | Washington, DC
Sarah Turnbull | Manchester, MA
Patricia Bellman | El Paso, TX
Laura Polvinen | Manchester, MA
Freddi Triback | Manchester, MA
Clarissa Keen | Watertown, MA
Kristen Brodie | San Marcos, TX
Callie Hyder | Washington, DC
Mary Kahn | Danvers Town of, MA
Robert Kahn | Manchester, MA
Jessica Steffy | Cumru Twp, PA
Allegra Atkinson | Newton, MA
Sophia Mangasarian | West Chester , PA
Nathaniel Ketcham | Detroit, MI
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.