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D.C. Area Black Lives Matter at School Online Curriculum Fair

More workshops for the annual D.C. Area Black Lives Matter at School Curriculum Fair have been announced! This online curriculum fair is open to educators nationally, to prepare for the National Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action and Year of Purpose.

Professional development credits will be available and ASL interpretation will be provided for selected sessions.

Curriculum Fair Workshops

• Black Lives Matter in Early Childhood Classrooms: Using Children's Literature to Spark Conversation From Toddlers to 3rd Grade by Laleña Garcia - Early Childhood

• How We Can Live: An Educator's Guide to the Book by Laleña Garcia - Early Childhood, Lower Elementary

• Critical Race Theory: A Lens to Understand Our Context by Brandie E. Waid and Leah Z. Owens - All age levels

• Liberatory, Anti-Racist Education for Black, Queer and Trans Youth; Yes, Even in Mathematics by Brandie E. Waid - Upper Elementary, Middle School, High School, Adult Education

• How to Identify White Supremacy and Anti-Black Racism in the U.S. History Curriculum by Chris Seeger and Tiffany Mitchell Patterson - Upper Elementary, Middle School, High School



• Whose Story? Teaching Local Lynching History in the English and History Classrooms by Caitlin Atkins and Lesley Younge - High School

• Liberating Education During the Schooling Crisis by Jonathan Peraza Campos - Middle School, High School

• Understanding the Anti-CRT Project Through Stories of the McCarthy Era by Ursula Wolfe-Rocca - Middle School, High School, Adult Education

• Stitching Memories: Personal Stories, Activism, & the Gee’s Bend Quilters by Dena Rapaport - All age levels

• Education as an Exercise in Restorative Justice by Black Broad Branch Project by Mariana Barros-Titus and Corey Shaw - Upper Elementary, Middle School, High School, Adult Education

February 6–10, 2023

Educators and community members across the U.S. are joining in collaboration to support the National Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action (February 6–10, 2023) and Year of Purpose. This campaign promotes a set of national demands based on the Black Lives Matter guiding principles that focus on improving the school experience for students of color. The goal of the week of action is to encourage ongoing critical reflection, honest conversations, and targeted action for people of all ages in school communities to work towards building schools where Black lives matter.

D.C. area educators are encouraged to join Teaching for Change’s D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice (DCAESJ) for the sixth annual D.C. Area Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action from February 6–10, 2023.

Learn More and Sign Up for D.C. Area Week of Action

In addition to participation in the Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action, educators, students, parents, antiracist organizers, and education advocates are encouraged to participate in the “Year of Purpose”: ongoing activations and reflection throughout the school year to uplift Black students and undo institutional racism. Learn more. 

The centerpiece of the Year of Purpose is asking educators to reflect on their own work in relationship to antiracist pedagogy and abolitionist practice, persistently challenging themselves to center Black lives in their classrooms. 

Black Women Radicals

Confront the Red Scare

Online Class with Historian Dayo Gore

Monday, January 23

People’s history teachers are being attacked with Red Scare tactics — their names published on lists by right-wing publications, threats of firing, and physical intimidation.

That is why the Zinn Education Project invited historian Dayo Gore to share stories from history about how to fight back. Join us on to learn about Black women radicals active in the revolutionary struggle during the Red Scare. This session is part of our Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’s history series.

The Vote, Caste,

and the Carceral State

January 28-29

This two-day conference features Michelle Alexander, Kelly Lytle Hernandez, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, James Forman Jr., Chesa Boudin, Nicholas Lemann, Danny Glover, and many others. Topics include incarceration, Reconstruction, disenfranchisement, criminal justice reform, reparations, the school-to-prison pipeline, and more. It will be held online and in person at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Teaching for Change

Social Justice Books

Zinn Education Project

D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice