Latest posts tagged with #TeachTruth on Bluesky
Thank you to everyone who joined us at today’s rally at the State Board of Education! Our students deserve a curriculum that’s guided by the truth, not politics, and the board must listen to the input of experienced educators and curriculum experts, not ideologues.
#TeachTruth
#tdih March 28, 1898: Wong Kim Ark wins U.S. citizenship.
Born to Chinese immigrants barred from becoming U.S. citizens under the 1882 Exclusion Act, the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association and Ark fought for the 14th Amendment's guarantee. #TeachTruth
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New lesson from ASHP: Wong Kim Ark & Birthright Citizenship
Birthright citizenship is guaranteed by the Constitution. So why is it under attack? Students explore the 1898 case & the anti-Chinese racism behind it.
Teach the history. Question the present. #TeachTruth 🧵
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#tdih 1915 Legendary jazz singer and songwriter Billie Holiday was born in Philadelphia.
Holiday refused to comply, despite persecution, with Red Scare HUAC attempts to stop her from singing Strange Fruit, the anti-lynching anthem by Abel Meeropol.
#TeachTruth
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#tdih 1968 Uprising at Alabama’s Tuskegee Institute
Students’ demands included creation of a Black studies program, financial aid for student athletes, end to compulsory ROTC participation, & changes to structure of classes at the campus. #TeachTruth 🧵
Read ⬇️
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As a 25+ year teacher in secondary and college classrooms, I concur. Back in the day we just closed our door and got on with teaching what needed to be taught. Easier to ask forgiveness than permission. #TeachTruth
THEN: corporate press vilified Dr. King for his protest of the war.
NOW: corporate media vilify, underreport, or both-sidesism anti-war protests, climate crisis, cancerous toxins, attacks on education, voter suppression, Palestine history, EO's, & more.
HOLD MEDIA ACCOUNTABLE. Defend #TeachTruth
School Board visit during kids sentences about killing bison to take indigenous land…we’ll see what comes back at me.
#teachtruth 💙🍎
Man holding Teach Vote Resist Organize poster in crowd at rally outdoors
From classrooms to the streets, people everywhere rose up on Saturday at #NoKings to demand the right to #TeachTruth.
If you brought any signs about people's history or the freedom to learn, send photos to zep@zinnedproject.org so we can share them.
📷 HS history teacher Gabe Doss, Ann Arbor MI
Check out the graphic novel, “We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration.”
By @frankabe.bsky.social and @tamikonimura.bsky.social; illustrated by @rossish.bsky.social
#TeachTruth #TeachOutsideTextbook
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In a Ghana-led resolution, UN declared transatlantic slave trade “the gravest crime against humanity,” passing 123-3. The U.S., Argentina, & Israel voted no.
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Read our reparations lesson & teach why they matter. #TeachTruth
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Person with glasses and a cap holding a colorful Teach Vote Resist Organize poster at an outdoor rally. Sign in background days No Faux King Way
A high school U.S. history teacher defends the right to #TeachTruth and the #FreedomtoLearn with a "Teach, Vote, Resist, Organize" poster.
Riverside, California #NoKings rally
(Request a free copy of the poster for #MayDay here: www.zinnedproject.org/news/teach-t...)
We are the future ancestors. with photos of Malcolm X, Marsha P. Johnson, Yuri Kochiyama, Ella Baker, and Emma Tenayuca.
We are the future ancestors. What role will you play in history to shape a just future for the next 250 years? #TeachTruth #America250
Teach Truth, Freedom Dream the Future #TeachTruth #America250
Looking for #NoKings sign ideas for today?
Here are a few.
Defend the #FreedomtoLearn and #TeachTruth
Email us your photos (zep@zinnedproject.org) or tag them #TeachTruth 🧵
I want to expose my students to new perspectives that help them become critical thinkers. — Sunnyvale, California I want to teach my students about U.S. imperialism as our situation grows more dire. — Turner Falls, Massachusetts I used ZEP lessons years ago, and now using them again, they are just as relevant and help uncover important issues around power, privilege, identity, intersectionality, and internalized racism. — Brooklyn, New York
#FridayReport: This week 158 teachers signed up at ZEP for people’s history lessons from Sunnyvale, CA; Denver, CO; Athens, GA; Turner Falls, MA; Otsego, MN; Brooklyn, NY; Arlington, TX; Spanish Fork, UT; Alexandria and Keezletown, VA; & many more cities.
#TeachTruth
Some reasons why. ⬇️ 🧵
Great to see the examples of resistance on post below, including "In 1964, Black sharecroppers organized the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and cracked open a political system that had used violence and terror to shut them out" with link to article at ZEP to learn more. #TeachTruth
”Our choice is to follow the politics of the going order . . . or else to promote those human values of peace, equality, and justice, which our present society denies.”
— Howard Zinn, 1977
The choice is ours. Make #TeachTruth visible at #NoKings. Be seen.
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I’m interested in teaching your lesson on the Congo. — Cambridge, Massachusetts What a great resource! I learned from ZEP resources when I was in high school! — Dayton, Maine I’ve been using teaching materials from this amazing organization for a long time. — Oakland, California I’ve always been hungry for this type of social justice curriculum, and I am so happy that a colleague recommended this to me! — Midland, Michigan
#Fridayreport: This week 163 teachers signed up at ZEP for people’s history lessons from El Monte and Oakland, CA; Hamden, CT; Dayton, ME; Cambridge and Dorchester, MA; Midland, MI; Astoria and Ithaca, NY; Greensboro, NC; & many more cities.
#TeachTruth
Some reasons why. ⬇️ 🧵
As the US-Israeli war against the people of Iran continues, we need to teach outside the textbook.
On @democracynow.org, hear Vali Nasr explain how “Iran is playing a long game.”
Watch: www.democracynow.org/2026/3/19/va...
Teaching resources:
www.zinnedproject.org/news/exposin...
#TeachTruth
Prep to bring #TeachTruth campaign to #NoKings, #MayDay, #Pride, #Juneteenth, a local library, statehouse, farmers market, and more.
Join us for an engaging and informative one-hour, online Prep Session on March 23 at 7pm ET. RSVP below.
www.zinnedproject.org/news/teach-t...
On March 23 get ready (virtually) to #TeachTruth about the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence with our @zinnedproject.bsky.social .
www.zinnedproject.org/news/teach-t...
For the resources on the Vietnam War. — Las Vegas, Nevada I’m interested in climate resources. — Fair Lawn, New Jersey I would love more ideas for teaching Reconstruction! — Littleton, Colorado I was looking up ways to teach about the Red Scare, and the activity I saw here is the most compelling! I’m excited to try it out. — Bronx, New York
#FridayReport: This week 157 teachers signed up at ZEP for people’s history lessons from Littleton, CO; Las Vegas, NV; Fair Lawn, NJ; Bronx, NY; Fort Worth, TX; Ranchester, WY; & many more cities.
#TeachTruth
Some reasons why. ⬇️ 🧵
The Confederate Constitution, adopted #tdih 1861, protected slavery, stating “No law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed.”
Yet people still claim the Civil War wasn’t about slavery.
Teach outside the textbook. #TeachTruth
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NJ high school teacher & ZEP Prentiss Charney Fellow T. J. Whitaker co-leads a Model Gary Convention (like Model U.N.) each year for students who spend months researching & prepping their platforms. #TeachTruth
Read about it in @rethinkingschools.bsky.social ⬇️
rethinkingschools.org/articles/stu...
I want to be a better teacher. — Chula Vista, California I would love to use the lessons for How the Word Is Passed. — Detroit, Michigan I am currently teaching a unit on Palestine and Israel, and I would love to learn from the educators here who have developed curriculum on this topic. — Chicago, Illinois To bridge the gap between traditional curricula and the complex, honest narratives that shape our world. Elementary students are capable of — and deserve — an education that moves beyond mythology to explore real history. — Arvin, California
#Fridayreport
This week 206 teachers signed up at ZEP for people’s history lessons from Arvin, Chula Vista, San Jose, and San Rafael, CA; Chicago, IL; Huntertown, IN; Detroit, MI; Canaan, NH; & many more cities.
#TeachTruth
Some reasons why. ⬇️ 🧵
Text on blue background: Laws across the country are making criminals out of educators who teach this history. #TeachTruth
Many legislatures & the president have tried to criminalize teaching honestly. They ban "divisive concepts," including that U.S. is "fundamentally or systematically racist."
Under those EO's & laws, can teachers invite students to read & analyze Dred Scott ruling by U.S. Supreme Court? #TeachTruth
For more resources to #TeachTruth about the American Revolution on this 250th anniversary, check out @msmagazine.com's Feminist 250 initiative.
msmagazine.com/feminist-250/
