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Educators need your support to turn classrooms and schools into sites of resistance, justice, joy, and liberation. At a time when dozens of state laws restrict what teachers can say about history and systemic oppression — and when books are being banned from school libraries in record numbers — educators are fighting back, and they need your help.
Your donation helps fund the Teaching for Black Lives study groups — a growing network of educators organizing collective action against laws that ban Black history. These groups receive copies of Teaching for Black Lives, a free subscription to Rethinking Schools, and workshops on antiracist teaching that give them the tools, strategies, and courage to defy censorship.
When you give, you’re supporting teachers and joining the movement to make truth-telling and liberation the heart of education. Become a monthly supporter today.
Sharon Chang
Support Teacher Study Groups Across the Nation
Teacher-led study groups are the heart of the Teaching for Black Lives campaign. Since the start of the campaign in 2020, the Zinn Education Project has hosted 400 study groups in 43 states. With your help, we can sponsor many more.
Amy Clarke Moore from Longmont, Colorado said that from her experience, it is hard to narrow it down to one thing:
1. The Teaching for Black Lives book is amazing — so well-organized, carefully curated, and absolutely engaging;
2. The online classes provided classroom-ready material that I was able to put to use in the classroom immediately;
3. The gatherings left me feeling connected to a vast network of educators across the country with similar goals and lots of ideas for how to move forward.
Hear from more study group participants in the short clips below:
Help us double the number of study groups across the country. Make a gift through the Zinn Education Project today and indicate your contribution is for the Teaching for Black Lives campaign.
Support Online Classes, Workshops, and New Lessons
There is a surging demand from educators for lessons that teach the truth about history — how systems of inequality were built, and how movements have sought — and sometimes succeeded — to dismantle them. But there is also a backlash to this effort. With your support, the Teaching for Black Lives campaign can help ensure that educators are sustained in their pursuit of racial justice.
With your help, the Zinn Education Project can
- Continue to host Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online classes
- Develop new lessons for educators to use in their classrooms
- Offer workshops for educators to engage with new curricula and instructional strategies
- And more!
Make a gift today — and indicate your contribution is for the Teaching for Black Lives campaign.
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Teaching for Black Lives study groups aren’t just book clubs — they’re brave spaces where educators come together to learn, unlearn, and grow in solidarity. Being part of a study group reminded me that transformation in education begins with community. It gave me the tools, language, and collective energy to push back against inequity and reimagine what education can look like for Black students.
–Tonette Campbell
High School, Baltimore, Maryland
Coordinating a study group was a wonderful way to connect with other teachers who we may not have otherwise been able to connect with. There was so much comfort in knowing there were other like-minded people teaching in our school. Often, on the day after a meeting, I would get multiple emails from attendees about how our conversations were almost therapeutic.
— Kristin Crouch
High School, Rensselaer, New York
Rethinking Schools completely shifted my pedagogy as an educator when I was first introduced to it during my first year teaching. It literally changed my life and made me a much better teacher and person. This program has also allowed me to find a community of teachers that I’ve been searching for since my first year teaching here!
–Annie Weiler
Elementary, Columbus, Ohio
Our Teaching for Black Lives study group has been an anchor for all of us who are a part of it over the last two years. We are each other’s touchstones when we need to process an issue, each other’s inspiration, and our group brings a huge sense of belonging to all of us (many who haven’t found it elsewhere at our school).
–Sarae Pacetta
Pre-K, Portland, Maine
The Teaching for Black Lives group is my favorite space to come together with my colleagues. I have built lasting relationships that have allowed us to organize for better teaching and learning conditions for our students, and has shown us how collective action and a shared analysis can go a long way in creating change in our district.
–Lindsay Paiva
Elementary, Providence, Rhode Island
The study group provided me with a constant source of optimism, connection, and community during a particularly difficult year for education in Florida. Having a space to process current events, analyze our readings, and share ideas and support to push me in my teaching practice was an incredibly valuable experience.
— AnnElise Acosta
Elementary, Miami, Florida
The experience has been incredibly rewarding and transformative, both personally and professionally. Our group became an affinity group that held space for each other, built community, and shared practice in ways that helped to positively impact morale, ambitions, innovations, and has inspired us all to persist despite our context.
— Dr. Candace Cofield
Pre-K–12 District, Hayward, California
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