Signatures
This is the list of people who have signed the pledge or petition to date.
Katia Hazen | Berkeley, CA
Truth matters.
Gloria Custodio | Bradenton, FL
The hard truths of history should be faced, not ignored or whitewashed. Classrooms are places for open and honest discussion, not censorship.
Kristin Moilanen | Morgantown, WV
Sean O'Neil | Santa Fe, NM
Teaching US History without talking about racism is like teaching reading without talking about vowels.
Jessica Leveto | Conneaut, OH
Our students deserve to learn how systems have been created to work for some and not others. It is not until we understand how these systems have been constructed that we can take them down and rebuild, equitably, together and for a better, brighter future.
Todd Craig | Colorado Springs, CO
The truth will set you free.
Therese Gibson | Takoma Park, MD
Truth matters. Critical thinking matters.
Robert Wilkison | Jacksonville, FL
Lisa Gann | Kansas City, MO
Lisa Labella | Arlington, VA
It is time to align the public school curriculum with the truth. As the world evolves and more about our world and our history is revealed, we must be intentional about presenting this information and providing these resources to our students.
Norma Bowles | Los Angeles, CA
We have to make sure our youth learn the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Jo Carlisle | Jacksonville, FL
Eleanor Scott | San Francisco, CA
I’m descendant of settler colonizers, I’m also a teacher. I am trying to interrupt intergenerational and present day racial and heteropatriarchal trauma that serves to keep white bodies comfortable and ignorant. Racism and racist policies are a failure of imagination. And by lying (both outright and by omission) to students, teachers are eroding Youth’s prodigious critical thinking skills and creativity. I will not be part of this ongoing oppression and hegemony.
Nina Dorrance | Albuquerque, NM
Lee Stierwalt | Delano, CA
Monica Aguirre | Seattle, WA
I am a person of color who was been disfranchised through public education and as an adult now am trying to change that for my BIPOC youth
Barbara DeBarger | San Ramon, CA
Children deserve to know the truth of our history to learn from it. Not a whitewashed version.
Amanda Day | Riverside, RI
Jennie Sharp | Camp Sherman, OR
History and truth matter.
Tim Gilmore | Jacksonville, FL
I will not stop teaching the facts.
Aline Aguirre | Seattle, WA
Our youth and communities deserve to learn about BIPOC history to empower them toward liberation.
Shannon Woodruff | Dripping Springs, TX
Teach the truth, let trust be our guide. Good trouble!
Grace Howley | Newark, NJ
Michael Rollolazo | Denver, CO
I am dedicated to fighting willful ignorance one student at a time.
Bethany Valint | Kenmore, WA
Students need to know their histories to fight oppression and know their identities.
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.