Signatures
This is the list of people who have signed the pledge or petition to date.
Stacey Haag | Orlinda, TN
erica Corlito | Brooklyn, NY
Marissa Deerkop | Aberdeen, WA
Dakota Hudelson | Indianapolis, IN
I won't let modern McCarthyists and racists disrupt my classroom.
Michelle Young | Sunnyvale, CA
Denise Jones | Takoma Park, MD
I'm committed to teaching about All peoples and the impacts of our actions on others as a way of strengthening community through increasing awareness. History includes all of our stories and perspectives and my work as a teaching artist can deepen learning, sharing, and build agency through knowledge.
Enrique Vasquez | Los Angeles, CA
I believe in social and economic justice. In order to improve our communities, we must empower our students to be critical thinkers and advocates fighting for a better world.
Mitchell Freedman | Rio Rancho, NM
I believe we have to stand together as educators against the continuing assault on education from reactionary forces that do not want unpleasant truths uttered in a classroom. I teach what Derrick Bell would recognize as Critical Race Theory and how various governmental systems and cultural responses from the largely white settler colonialists created consequences that benefited those deemed "white" and harmed those deemed "non-white." I am also more inclined to agree with Sean Wilentz and Gordon Wood regarding particular shortcomings in the main essay in the 1619 Project, however, and wish to be clear about that, too.
Julianne Guillard | Richmond, VA
Educated people are powerful people!
Jared Middleton | Springdale, AR
Douglas Musco | Manchester, MA
...of the absolute necessity of teaching our students the TRUTH...
Mark Sass | Denver, CO
It is my professional and ethical responsibility to sign this pledge.
Alex Robins | Berkeley, CA
William Brown | Florence, MA
Dorcas Hand | Houston, TX
Aileen Fullchange | Dallas, TX
John Presnall | Frost, TX
I refused to be bullied by those outside the system. I will teach my student the facts; how they react to them is their choice.
Michelle Diaz | Westerly, RI
We are fighting this battle. I refuse to perpetuate racism for racists.
Emma Kopelowicz | Pacific Palisades, CA
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Sarah Bertucci | Estes Park, CO
Students and teachers need the truth, and racism and oppression are facts in our history and current society. We can't make changes to have a more unified, just country if we can't name what is actually happening and has happened historically.
Donnie Wilkerson | Jamestown, KY
we have three simple rules in our classroom . . . be kind, think freely and inquire often! Any attempt to limit either of the three is antithetical to all this country stands for. If reprising the role of John Thomas Scopes becomes necessary I stand ready and willing!
Elizabeth Montero | Elizabethtown, KY
Michelle Casey | Ossining, NY
Representation matters and it’s time to teach the truth.
Adekunle Ige | Antioch, CA
The truth should be told. We don't learn from lies.
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.