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.

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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.

BOOK

STUDY GROUPS

LESSONS

CLASSES

Howard Barry

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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

United States with pink dots indicating past and present study group locations
329
study groups across the country
2780
copies of the book given away
92,853
downloads of Black history lessons
3795
teachers in study groups
4,000
teachers took online classes
650000
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

January 10, 2024 in Events

Informational Session: Teaching for Black Lives Study Groups

Monday, March 18, 2024: Jesse Hagopian, Teaching for Black Lives co-editor, will facilitate an informational session for educators who are interested in forming a Teaching for Black Lives study group in the 2024–2025 school…
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January 10, 2024 in Events

Black Patience: Performance, Civil Rights, and the Unfinished Project of Emancipation

Monday, April 8, 2024: Africana studies professor Julius B. Fleming Jr. in conversation with educator Jessica Rucker, will discuss the role of Black theater in the Black Freedom Struggle and the concept…
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January 9, 2024 in Events

Teaching for Black Lives Study Groups 2024–2025

April 2024 (until spots are filled): The Zinn Education Project is accepting applications for Teaching for Black Lives educator study groups for the 2024–2025 school year. Apply today! Each year…
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