Signatures
This is the list of people who have signed the pledge or petition to date.
Michanne Hoctor-Thompson | San Diego, CA
We must name it to face it before we can do something about it.
Garrison Schmitt | Baltimore, MD
Catherine Valadez | San Marcos, CA
Kelly Drake | Tacoma, WA
Heidi Quihuis | Lebanon, OR
Sarah Davis | Minneapolis, MN
Katie Piehl | Saint Paul, MN
David Nowak | Columbus, OH
Allison Welch
Melanie Shaw | Rochester, MN
cindy macias | Compton, CA
our communities deserve the truth and we will fight for our rights
Leonard Leonard | Chapel Hill, NC
Noah De Lissovoy | Austin, TX
Rachel Dortin | Little Rock, AR
Karen Vecellio
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
Siobhan Gilmartin | Bozeman, MT
Alexa Ramirez | Saint Paul, MN
Maura Conway | Fort Mill, SC
CRT *is* History, Sociology, Political Science- it is an honest look at who we are and what we can do to understand and change our society in an informed, compassionate, and just way.
Liz McGlone | New York, NY
Dennis Cornell | Louisville, KY
Kelley Burt | Marathon, NY
Danielle Levin | Oakland, CA
Sean Black | Johnstown, CO
Ruth Kuzmanic | Saint Charles, IL
Let's not hide behind white-washed history, our students deserve to know the history...the true history. Maybe that way they will not repeat the mistreatment of people that may be different from themselves.
Barbara Terrebonne | Saint Martinville, LA
If we cannot learn from our past we are doomed to repeat it in the future
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.