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This resource page is for Teaching for Black Lives Study Group members only.
Events
As a Teaching for Black Lives study group, you are invited to attend monthly classes and workshops hosted by the Zinn Education Project.
All study group members are encouraged to attend at least three Teaching for Black Lives Campaign events, including the national welcoming and closing celebrations. Generally, there is one special event, workshop, class, or training per month.
All of these events are online, at 4:00 pm PT/ 7:00 pm ET, and last for 60 to 90 minutes unless otherwise noted.
ASL Interpretation will be available upon request. Please register at least four days in advance to give our team time to schedule interpreters.
♦ Study Group Members Only
2025
Monday, April 28
Teaching about the Black Panther Party curriculum workshop for Teaching for Black Lives study groups
Join us for a participatory workshop where educators will engage in a mixer activity taking on the role of someone who was in, or connected to, the Black Panthers. There will be time to connect with social justice educators and members of other study groups to discuss ways to adapt the lesson and resources.
Jarvis Givens and Imani Perry
Monday, May 5
Black Teachers: A Pedagogy of Organized Resistance with Jarvis Givens and Imani Perry. This session is a Teach the Black Freedom Struggle Online Class.
Historians Jarvis Givens and Imani Perry, in conversation with Teaching for Black Lives co-editor Jesse Hagopian and Rethinking Schools executive director Cierra Kaler-Jones, will discuss the Black Teacher Archive, a digital portal centralizing materials created by professional organizations of African American educators, historically referred to as Colored Teachers Associations (CTAs).
Thursday, May 8
Monthly Gathering (30 minutes) Current and alumni Teaching for Black Lives coordinators and members welcome.
Monday, May 12
Jason Stanley
Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future with Jason Stanley, in conversation with Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian. This class is in preparation for the 5th annual Teach Truth Day of Action.
In Erasing History, Jason Stanley exposes the ways authoritarian regimes manipulate historical narratives to maintain power. By showing how history is weaponized to advance political agendas, Stanley underscores the importance of preserving historical truth as a safeguard against authoritarian rule.
Monday, May 19
Showcase Celebration for Teaching for Black Lives study groups
This is our closing celebration and showcase event of Teaching for Black Lives study groups for the 2024–2025 school year. We will give you time to complete the end-of-year survey to provide crucial feedback about your study group experience. All study group coordinators and participants have received a Google calendar invite. If you need us to resend it, please email Julia at jsalcedo@zinnedproject.org.
Wednesday, May 21
Free Speech Movement Teacher Workshop
Join the Zinn Education Project for an interview by Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian with activist scholars Bettina Aptheker, author of Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech, and Became a Feminist Rebel and Robert Cohen, author of The Essential Mario Savio: Speeches and Writings that Changed America. Aptheker will describe her own involvement with the Free Speech Movement (FSM) and Cohen will trace the roots of the FSM back to the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi. Both will address current threats to free speech.
Thursday, May 29
Teach Truth Media Training Workshop
Join us for an interactive and informative workshop on effective media strategies — with time to practice responding to Teach Truth FAQs in small groups. Workshop will be facilitated by Rethinking Schools editor and ZEP team member, Jesse Hagopian.
Monday, June 2
Mia Bay
Traveling Black: A Long Journey of Resistance with Mia Bay. This session is a Teach the Black Freedom Struggle Online Class.
Historian Mia Bay and Teaching for Black Lives co-editor Jesse Hagopian will discuss Bay’s book, Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance, which explores racial restrictions on transportation and resistance to the injustice.
Saturday, June 7
5th Annual Teach Truth Days of Action
For the past four summers, Teaching for Black Lives study groups and communities across the country rallied to speak out against anti-history education bills and to make public their pledge to teach the truth. These grassroots events expose the dangerous agenda of anti-history education laws and Executive Orders.
When you sign up, we provide you with materials to host teach-ins, rallies, and/or information tables at libraries, bookstores, and other public spaces. Defend the right to #TeachTruth (including about Palestine), fight book bans, and defend LGBTQ+ rights.
Monday, September 22
Eve L. Ewing
Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism with scholar Eve L. Ewing. This session is a Teach the Black Freedom Struggle Online Class.
In conversation with Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian and Rethinking Schools executive director Cierra Kaler-Jones, scholar Eve L. Ewing will discuss her book, Original Sins, an examination of how the U.S. school system helps maintain racial inequality and social hierarchies.
Guides
Guides
Study Guide
This guide, for teachers who are reading Teaching for Black Lives, includes thought-provoking questions for discussion, ideas for action, and resources for groups and individuals. Written by Cierra Kaler-Jones and Jesse Hagopian. Download the Teaching for Black Lives Study Guide.
Facilitation Guide
This month-to-month guide includes prompts and suggestions for study group meetings plus best practices for communication and engagement. Feel free to adapt and build off of to fit your own setting and your group’s particular needs.
Book
The heart of the study groups is collectively reading, discussing, and applying what you learn from the Teaching for Black Lives book. You’ll find a compilation of essays, teaching activities, role plays, poems, and artwork, designed to illuminate the movement for Black students’ lives, the school-to-prison-pipeline, Black history, gentrification, intersectional Black identities, and more. The book is edited by Wayne Au, Jesse Hagopian, and Dyan Watson.
Rethinking
Rethinking Schools
Each study group member receives a complimentary one-year Rethinking Schools subscription (digital and print). If you haven’t subscribed, please do so TODAY by following these instructions:
- Visit this dedicated page for your one-year subscription.
- Use code ZEPSTUDYSUB24
Beyond your study group members, do not share the code — there is only one subscription per study group member. For questions about the subscription, extending a current subscription, or if you don’t receive a printed issue, email orders@rethinkingschools.org.