Causes: Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Social Action & Advocacy, Education

Mission: Teaching for change provides teachers and parents with the tools to

Results: Teaching for Change has won organizational awards from the DC Humanities Council, the National Multicultural Institute, and the National Association for Multicultural Education.
•Parents in 10 schools in Maryland and DC are turning the tables on parent-school relations using our Tellin’ Stories approach, which is growing nationally thanks to a full-length article in Rethinking Schools and a partnership with the National Education Association;
•The National Family, School, and Community Engagement Working Group at Harvard University selected our Tellin’ Stories Project approach as one of twelve examples of leading innovations in family engagement for the US Department of Education;
•Every teacher in the country has access to free downloadable teaching activities about a people’s history on the Zinn Education Project website that we run with Rethinking Schools;
•Our bookstore at Busboys and Poets is one of the few progressive, independent bookstores in the country. People in the DC area and nationally depend on our careful selection (in store and online) and the great series of author events that we coordinate with Busboys and Poets;
•Every 8th grade student in McComb, Mississippi is learning a people’s history of the United States in a course that will be made available to educators statewide;
•Students in McComb, Mississippi are preserving their local history. Four years ago they did not know that McComb was central to the Civil Rights Movement – now they are conducting oral history interviews for posterity;
•Tens of thousands of teachers across the country accessed our Teaching about Haiti online resources after the earthquake. We were the only source of age appropriate materials for K-12 classrooms that emphasized the history of oppression and resistance in Haiti – and grassroots organizing.
•A D. C. school asked us to help them engage the Ethiopian parents using our Tellin’ Stories approach. Now over half of the Ethiopian families are reading in classrooms and coming to meetings.

Programs: Publications: progressive, multicultural, social justice books for pre-k to high school and for adults are hand selected and made available at a bookstore located in a restaurant, coffeehouse, and performance space. Teaching for change only operates the bookstore, and helps to schedule most of the weekly author events, and the space is made available to the organization at no cost by the owner.

tellin' stories (ts) engages families and staff uses the power of story: to connect people from diverse backgrounds, to pass on valuable information and experiences and to organize collective action. Ts works with parents to create and implement action plans that affeect the academic achievement and environment of neighborhood school through relationship building (creating a story quilt), weekly meetings, workshops, trainings, and grassroots organizing. It helps those who are traditionally exclu

the zinn education project: teaching a people's history website offers more than 120 free, downloadable teaching activities for middle and high school classrooms to bring a people's history to the classroom. The site also lists hundreds of recommended books, films, and websites. The teaching activities and resources are organized by theme, time period and grade level. This is the only collection of its kind for educators - print or online - in the country. Teachers in every state in the u. S. Are

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