A Campaign of the Zinn Education Project, coordinated by Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change
Join the Campaign
The Teaching for Black Lives campaign provides teachers support, resources, and encouragement to teach young people honestly about systemic racism and how to organize for justice.
Watch this 3-minute video on the campaign.
Watch the Video
Support for Educators
Through classes, study groups, workshops, and free curriculum and resources, educators can join a national network of teachers, school librarians, counselors, administrators, and school staff who are defying efforts to ban what students can learn in school by vowing to teach for Black lives.
Howard Barry
Advocate and Donate
We must support educators organizing to turn classrooms and schools into sites of resistance, justice, joy, and liberation, and to combat racism and anti-Blackness.
Racial justice educators are fighting back — and they need your help. Join us.
Our Movement is Growing
329
study groups across the country
3887
copies of the book given away
111767
downloads of Black history lessons
3795
teachers in study groups
5410
teachers took online classes
964200
students reached by teachers in study groups and online classes
Help us double the numbers!
Make a donation through the Zinn Education Project today, and indicate your contribution is for the “Teaching for Black Lives” campaign.
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Events & Announcements
The Healing of Organized Remembering: The Struggle to Teach Truth
Monday, January 13, 2025: Teaching for Black Lives co-editor Jesse Hagopian and Rethinking Schools executive director Cierra Kaler-Jones will discuss Hagopian’s latest book, Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education…
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