Jesse Hagopian's Lesson Plan for Liberation
First published in TruthOut.org Empowering Black students to become change makers is a key goal of the book, Teaching for Black Lives. Editors Dyan Watson, Jesse Hagopian and Wayne Au have assembled a cogent group of essays that offer the opportunity for developing an anti-racist pedagogy. Truthout interviewed one of the editors, Jesse Hagopian, who …
Continue reading Black Lives Matter in Our Schools: Developing an Anti-Racist Pedagogy
It has been exhilarating to read the reviews that are steaming in about Teaching for Black Lives, the new book I co-edited with Dr. Dyan Watson and Dr. Wayne Au. Recent reviews include The Washington Post who called the book, “A handbook to help all educators fight racism” and Lily Eskelsen Garcia, president of the …
The Seattle Public Schools recently wrote the below article about the powerful pedagogy of local educators who are piloting a new Ethnic Studies program. The Ethnic Studies initiative in the Seattle Public Schools is the result of an on going movement that was birthed from the Black Lives Matter At School action last school year. …
Continue reading Ethnic Studies In Seattle: A look inside the classrooms of antiracist educators
Order Teaching for Black Lives, edited by Dyan Watson, Jesse Hagopian, and Wayne Au Teaching for Black Lives is officially released today by Rethinking Schools and I couldn’t be more hopeful for it’s impact on schools around the country. I have spent the past many months in collaboration with two other leading anti-racist educators, Professor …
Spurred by shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida that killed 17 people, a new student movement has risen up to challenge gun violence and the political power of the NRA. On Wednesday, March 14, tens of thousands of students around the country walked out of school to honor the students and …
Continue reading March for Our Lives means Black lives too
