Signatures
This is the list of people who have signed the pledge or petition to date.
Michele Bradley | Springfield, OR
Silvina Farmin | Albquerque, NM
I teach History not propaganda
Beth Carroll
Virginia Barkas GR
I will not let this attempt at censorship stop me from educating people of the truth. Our future generations need to know the truth so we can achieve justice in all forms. Real change starts with education, and those that create these censorship laws know this. I will not let them get in the way of spreading awareness of the truth of our society.
Jennifer J Arlin | Santa Fe, NM
Truth matters. It is the only way we can right our wrongs and heal our communities.
Peggy Fulton | Benicia, CA
Every human needs ‘their’story to be told. All of us deserve to hear the truth of others.
Daniel Cohen | Chicago , IL
Callie Kirsch | Raleigh, NC
Our students deserve to know the truth so they can be empowered to improve our world.
Shanikwa Lemon | Paterson, NJ
Melissa Tomlinson | Mays Landing, NJ
Only by teaching the truth will we make sure our mistakes of the past will not be repeated.
Melonie Newman | Crownsville, MD
Jerald Kumagai | San Pedro, CA
Marcella Simadiris | Paterson, NJ
I am committed to the truth
Mary Spencer | Palm Harbor, FL
Megan Dungan | Bensalem, PA
Rosslyn Kooseer | Gwynn Oak, MD
Heather Messner | Sierra Madre, CA
True history needs to be taught, not suppressed. Bullying tactics to silence educators will not work.
Omega Jade Williams | Burlington, VT
I teach Black History through creative writing. I believe all historical facts should be free to discuss and learn about. History repeats itself when we don't take time to learn from our mistakes. Black History is part of American History. Every good, bad and ugly part of it.
Charles Post | New York, NY
Paul Stacy | Ipswich, MA
we must stop whitewashing education and begin to lift all Ss up. By speaking truth to history all are given a humanity that wasn't present in earlier teaching.
Laura Buffi | Danielson
Vikki Riverstone | Alameda, CA
I will teach the truth and advocate for social justice every way I can.
Michael Kreiter | Boise, ID
This one is for you, IFF.
Tony Osumi | Culver City, CA
Good teaching is truth telling. Great teaching is exposing myths and lies.
Douglas Spalding | San Lorenzo, 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.