Highlights from the Zinn Education Project in 2019.

Request copies of the 'Stories from the Climate Crisis: A Mixer' lesson booklet, part of the Teach Climate Justice campaign.

The Zinn Education Project hosted a booth and and offered five workshops at the 2019 annual National Council for the Social Studies conference in Austin, Texas.

The 1619 Project, a multiplatform effort by journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times, highlights the fundamental role slavery played in the United States’ development by commemorating the year in which the first enslaved Africans were brought to the new Virginia colony.

All donations from today through Giving Tuesday will be matched up to $10,000 thanks to the generous support of Dave Colapinto, a former student of Howard Zinn’s at Boston University who defends whistleblowers.

Select Zinn Education Project articles are available in elementary and middle school reading levels at Newsela.

Many non-profit education organizations get major corporate support. The Zinn Education Project (a project of Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change) does not. We depend on individual donors and family foundations — and a lot of volunteers.

As of November 2019, there are over 100,000 educators registered at the Zinn Education Project.

The National Endowment for the Humanities offers tuition-free opportunities for K-12 educators to study a variety of humanities topics. Deadline to apply for 2020 institutes is March 1, 2020.

We are heartened by pledges from teachers across the United States to teach about climate justice. Here is what some teachers said about why they took the pledge and/or how they plan to teach about the climate emergency.

After students study the history of Columbus, the first question is invariably, "Why are we celebrating this murderer with a holiday?"

Full-day workshop on teaching about the climate crisis on Nov. 21, 2019 at the University of Texas Austin College of Education.

Today, commemorating what promises to be the largest climate strike ever, Rep. Barbara Lee's office (D-Calif.) says she will officially introduce a House Resolution to support the teaching of climate change in schools throughout the United States.

We have posted a new lesson, "How to Make Amends: A Lesson on Reparations," by high school teachers Ursula Wolfe-Rocca, Alex Stegner, Chris Buehler, Angela DiPasquale, and Tom McKenna.

Join the Zinn Education Project staff and volunteers at the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) conference in Austin, Texas from November 22-24. We will have a booth (#333) and offer people's history workshops.

The last three years have told a story of continuous resistance. Although not yet strong enough to change the status quo, these growing movements point to a different, better future. We invite you to teach — in our classrooms and in the streets — the hope-inspiring maxim that “people make history.”

Our new lesson about redlining and housing segregation introduces students to the 20th-century housing policies that bankrolled white capital accumulation while halting Black social mobility — and contributed to the injustice of the modern wealth gap.

Teachers, teacher educators, and community activists are invited to attend the Northwest Conference on Teaching for Social Justice, Oct. 19, 2019, in Seattle, Washington.

With your help, we can create a movement to teach about the people's history of Reconstruction.