Topic: Social Justice

To empower students to survive and live empathetically, invite them to write about moments of discrimination. Included is a student example and assignment outline.

What is hard history? Learn what teaching honest history looks like by reexamining common myths through noticing, pausing, and considering the context.

Approach voting rights through a thematic lens to enable students to make connections between the past and present.

Your classroom can be a place for students to experience what it means to live in community with others, to overcome differences, and to ask the questions.

Educational subjects lose power when taught in isolation. Bring literature into your math classroom to pique student curiosity and connect it to advocacy…all while learning math.

We know that living in a perpetual cycle of triage is unsustainable. We know we need to find a way to support each other and revise our rhythm to match the world we live and teach in today.

If you're hoping to attend some virtual PD this year to lift your practice—and your spirits—we have many options for you! However, we know that decision fatigue is real and too many choices can be overwhelming.

An activity which builds classroom community and raises social consciousness around the unique history of the land on which our schools reside.

Upon registration for #IREL21, participants were sent a survey asking why they decided to return this year OR why they are signing up for the first time. Here is what we learned.

When we, Dr. Sonja Cherry-Paul and Tricia Ebarvia, began imagining what IREL could be, we knew we wanted a space where teachers could take the necessary time to reflect deeply on their practices and work for transformative change in their classrooms, schools, and communities.

Shamari is joined by Cornelius Minor as they discuss the impact the pandemic has had on teachers, the endurance of American racism, and imagining a better future.

This week, Shamari is joined by Tara Benitez as they talk about our complicated identities as humans in education.

Colleen Cruz joins experts in various areas of education to talk about the common mistakes we make and how to learn from them, instead of fear them.

Schools can take steps to increase student racial diversity--but sometimes putting policies into practice is more complicated than it should be.

The Heinemann Podcast is celebrating four years and 200 episodes!

Your classroom can be a place for students to experience what it means to live in community with others, to overcome differences, and to ask the questions.

We all have the intention of using our classroom to envision a better world, but it's not always as easy as it sounds.

With the start of each new school year comes the important task of helping families understand what it means to root classroom learning in social justice.