Signatures
This is the list of people who have signed the pledge or petition to date.
Madeline Hemmerle | California, KY
Truth empowers students to make their communities stronger.
Mary-Low Schenck | Highland Park, NJ
Zarah Kulczycki | Studio City, CA
Amy King | Torrance, CA
Ocean Sky | Olga, WA
Ann Perepezko | Philadelphia, PA
Paige DeHaan | Peoria, AZ
Laurel Dias | West Valley City, UT
Jennifer Borrelli | Orlando, FL
I stand for telling the truth.
jim parryhill | Gretna, MB, CA
I have a duty to my students
Alexandra Brough | North Scituate, RI
Gianna Sollitto | North Scituate, RI
Melissa Demock | Baltimore, MD
Nancy White | Queensbury, NY
So far there is no legislation threatening the content of higher ed courses but many things have crept from high schools into the colleges (like so-called "assessment" practices), so I am on guard.
Carolyn Cryan | Rockaway Park, NY
Brittani Caponegro | Philadelphia, PA
Calia Marshall | New York, NY
As an educator, I vow to teach the truth about history and current societal ways of existing. Not to shame and blame, but to help my students use their art to create the world they want to live in. Without understanding how racism and other oppressions have and still do exist, our young people will not be able to help create a more just and equitable society.
Amberly Kelley-Dotson | Knoxville, TN
Natalie Polito | Mentor, OH
Chrystan Young | Henderson, NV
The truth will set you free.
Eva Schlomann | Los Angeles, CA
Ryan Knst | Tucson, AZ
Media and the Truth of America NEED to be revealed.
Megan Woodworth | Seattle, WA
Kennedy Kehr | Minneapolis, MN
Molly Pilloton | San Pablo, CA
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.