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Enid Lee, co-editor of Beyond Heroes and Holidays, received the Pritchy Smith Multicultural Educator Award at the 2008 National Association of Multicultural Education (NAME) Annual Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. Here is an excerpt from her remarks: "I accept this award on behalf of the children of Katrina whom we have lost and also for the children who have been left behind by Katrina and other national examples of neglect and injustice; children whom we must reach and teach to the best of our abilities. I recognize the challenge of receiving the award at this moment in world history with the election of Barack Hussein Obama as the first African American president of the United States of America; and I embrace the opportunity that this moment offers us all for collective action in the name of equity and social justice. Yes We Can! Yes We Must! Yes We Will!"

Enid is pictured, right, with her sister Robertine Chaderton, left. (Photo by Mike Trokan.)

Many people in the U.S. and worldwide have been experiencing an economic crisis for a long time. But recent events have spread the crisis and made it front page news. Here is a list of a few teaching resources to (as one of the books is titled) "teach economics as if people mattered."

Sonia Nieto, internationally respected scholar on multicultural education, is donating a portion of the royalties from her latest book, Dear Paulo: Letters to Teachers Who Dare Teach to Teaching for Change and Seeds of Solidarity. Nizam Ali and Tracey Gold Bennet are donating the royalties from the 50th anniversary Ben's Chili Bowl photo book, and Mario Bencastro donated copies of his young adult novel, A Promise to Keep.

Teaching Tolerance's Fall 2008 issue features the article I Didn't Know There Were Cities in Africa! submitted by Teaching for Change. Co-authored by Brenda Randolph of Africa Access Review and Betsy deMulder, the article critiques the stereotypes in popular children's books and films and provides a list of recommended titles and more resources.

Teaching for Change and Rethinking Schools are pleased to release the distribution demographic report for 4,000 free Zinn Education Packets. 

Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor, a former student of Howard Zinn, 4,000 educators from across the country have received Zinn Education Packets in the first phase of the project. Read more at www.zinnedproject.org.

The National Education Association (NEA) produced a 10-minute film about the work of Tellin' Stories. Check out the film online.

The film was produced for a 3-day NEA/Maryland State Parental Information and Resource Center (MD PIRC)-sponsored training institute that our staff provided to teacher and parent teams from across the country.