Black Lives Matter at School is a national coalition of educators organizing for racial justice in schools. 

Although there are many ways educators can participate in the week of action, we hope educators will commit to teach a wide variety of lessons centering Black history and literature. 

The Zinn Education Project, Teaching for Change, and Rethinking Schools can help.

• Help students see themselves as change-agents by teaching about the rich history of Black student activism in Teaching SNCC: The Organization at the Heart of the Civil Rights Revolution.
• Combat the misrepresentation of the Black Panther Party in textbooks by teaching students What We Don't Learn About the Black Panther Party ---- but Should.
• Reveal how government policies segregated every major city in the United States, with dire consequences for African Americans.
• Disrupt racist myths about who is responsible for the end of slavery by introducing students to a wide variety of Black abolitionists. 
• Highlight a too often overlooked but powerful moment in the Black freedom struggle by teaching about Reconstruction ---- a time, like our own, when activists sought to make Black Lives Matter.

Find books for your classroom for read-alouds, novel and story units, independent reading, student research, and more. 

• #BlackLivesMatterAtSchool national coalition
• Seven Things We Learned from the D.C. Area Black Lives Matter Week of Action in Schools at Medium.com
• See what educators in DC are planning for the 2020 week of action
• Read more about #BlackLivesMatterAtSchool and Black Minds Matter from Teaching Tolerance