Publications

Teaching for Change is dedicated to providing teachers, parents and activists access to educational publications that inspire students to question, challenge and re-think the world beyond the headlines. We do this through our bookstores, an online and print catalog, and the publishing of our own books.

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Catalog

We carefully select every title featured in our catalog to ensure it coincides with our mission to build social justice starting in the classroom. We constantly learn about new titles through our network of progressive educators and organizers, and each title goes through a review process. Throughout the year, you can find Teaching for Change selling books at conferences around the country. To have Teaching for Change display at or be the official bookstore for your conference, please e-mail us at pubs@teachingforchange.org.

Bookstores

Our bookstores, located in Washington, DC metro area, feature hard to find educational resources, children books, literature, poetry, biographies, and political titles with a social justice theme. Everything carried in our catalog can be found at either bookstore location.

Books Published by Teaching for Change

Caribbean Connections Series

Teaching for Change developed this 6-book series, featuring the following titles: The Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Overview of Regional History, and Moving North, to bring the diverse history and culture of the Caribbean experience into the classroom.

Beyond Heroes and Holidays

A Practical Guide to K-12 Anti-Racist, Multicultural Education and Staff Development

This widely used interdisciplinary guide for teachers, administrators, students, and parents offers lessons and readings that show how to: analyze the roots of racism; investigate the impact of racism on all our lives, our families, and our communities; examine the relationship between racism and other forms of oppression such as sexism, classism, and heterosexism; and learn to work to dismantle racism in our schools, communities, and the wider society. Beyond Heroes and Holidays has sold over 45,000 copies to date and is used as a core text in college courses across the country.

Putting the Movement Back Into Civil Rights Teaching

As one of the most commonly taught stories of people’s struggles for social justice, the Civil Rights Movement has the capacity to help students develop a critical analysis of United States history and strategies for change. However, the empowering potential is often lost in a trivial pursuit of names and dates. Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching, published by Teaching for Change and PRRAC, provides lessons and articles for K-12 educators on how to go beyond a heroes approach to the Civil Rights Movement.

Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching won the 2004 Philip C. Chinn Multicultural Book Award by the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME).

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