About the Campaign

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.

Through multiple opportunities — classes, study groups, workshops — educators are invited into 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.

Success to Date

The Teaching for Black Lives Campaign launched in the summer of 2020. Since that time, we have:

Sponsored 228 teacher study groups in 38 states
Hosted 40 Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online classes
Offered free lessons for teachers to use in their classrooms
Created and supported Teach Truth Days of Action across the country
Supported thousands of teachers facing attacks in their schools and communities

Produced and disseminated the first national report analyzing K–12 curriculum standards on Reconstruction
Led dozens of curriculum-writing workshops
Distributed more than 16,000 young adult people’s history books to classrooms
Ensured classroom teachers had a voice in local and national media coverage of anti-truth laws

Our Impact

The Teaching for Black Lives campaign has provided support to thousands of teachers and students as they face an unprecedented combination of challenges: the pandemic, structural racism, police violence, and the attacks on teaching Black history with legislation in a growing number of states.