D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice

Reconsidering Reparations: Author Talk with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò - Teaching for Change Join us on October 22 at 6:30pm at Busboys and Poets (14th & V) to hear from author Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, in conversation with Jenice L. View, on his book, Reconsidering Reparations: Why Climate Justice ...

DC!

Join @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social for a discussion of his book RECONSIDERING REPARATIONS with Jenice L. View, hosted by @teachingchange.bsky.social

Wednesday, October 22nd at
@busboysandpoets.bsky.social

RSVP to attend: www.teachingforchange.org/reconsiderin...

🗓️This is a great way to show solidarity to your fellow educators! We hope to see you Thursday!

2025 Native Knowledge 360° Teach-In - Teaching for Change Ninth Annual Native Knowledge 360° Teach-In Saturday, September 20, 202510:00AM – 3:00PMNational Museum of the American Indian1 Bowling GreenNew York, NY 10004 Tickets are $20 a person. Contact Teachi...

NY/NJ and all locales close #Edusky, did you know that this year's Native Knowledge 360 will be in NYC this year?! That's right, we'll be live from National Museum of the American Indian-NY THIS Saturday, September 20.

Join us! Learn more and register.
www.teachingforchange.org/nyc-native-k...

Graphic designed with image captured from the 2025 Social Justice Curriculum Fair of over 100 attendees in a multipurpose room at Inspired Teaching Demonstration School. Attendees are seated around cafeteria tables or standing. Graphic with green and blue D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice logo in a white sticker overlay with a blue oval and white text that reads "Social Justice Curriculum Fair Thank you for joining us!"

We are in deep gratitude and appreciation following our fourth annual Social Justice Curriculum Fair. Over 100 educators came together to spend time in community and in commitment to teaching truth, affirming students' identities, and teaching FOR change.

Solidarity Season: Labor Day 2025 Rally + March — Free DC Workers make DC run and we deserve better than mass firings, union busting, deportations, and occupation. Workers across the DC region need to be in solidarity with one another now more than ever b...

On Thursday, August 28, kick off Labor Day 2025 and solidarity season with a rally and march. #FreeDC

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Back to School Community Safety Toolkit — Free DC Families and parent organizations have an important role to play in ensuring schools remain safe, structured, and supportive places for children to learn. This toolkit compiles ideas from education ad...

And @freedcproject.bsky.social has put together a 2025 Back to School Community Safety Toolkit — check it out at freedcproject.org/schools

Our @zinnedproject.bsky.social 's Teach the Black Freedom Struggle classes are back!

Join us tonight as we kick off the school year with @clintsmithiii.bsky.social . ✨️

Gif of the fourth annual Social Justice Curriculum Fair: Guided by Love. To be held Saturday, August 23rd from 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. EST.

DMV #EduSky,

These times call for community.
These times call for curriculum collaboration.
These times call for professional learning.
These times call for activism.

Experience the solutions for these times at the fourth annual Social Justice Curriculum Fair: Guided by Love.
bit.ly/sojust25

DMV #EduSky, this is our love letter to you.

Our fourth annual Social Justice Curriculum Fair, “Guided by Love,” is both a tribute and a call to action. Honoring the radical, everyday love that YOU show by teaching truth.

See you on Saturday, August 23.

The Power of Place at the Social Justice Curriculum Fair — D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice On Saturday, August 17, D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice (DCAESJ) hosted the third annual Social Justice Curriculum Fair at Inspired Teaching Demonstration School.

See more from last year's curriculum fair to get inspired. www.dcareaeducators4socialjustice.org/news/social-...

Call for proposal for Social Justice Curriculum Fair. Submit Proposal by Monday, July 28th.

This annual event kicks off our school year, is morning is an opportunity for D.C. area educators to connect in person while exploring curriculum aligned with various social justice themes. Consider submitting a proposal for a workshop. forms.gle/4Qczg2gH26Yu...

2025 Social Justice Curriculum Fair — D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice DCAESJ Event | REGISTER TODAY for the annual Social Justice Curriculum Fair, an opportunity for D.C. area educators to connect in person while exploring curriculum aligned with various social justice...

🧵 DMV #EDUSky is it too early to ask y'all to get ready for the 2025 - 2026 school year by REGISTERING for our annual Social Justice Curriculum Fair?!!

We don't think so! 😏 Join us on Saturday, August 23, 2025 and invite your colleagues!

www.dcareaeducators4socialjustice.org/events/2025-...

Conserving our environment is an American value. From hikers to hunters we want to keep our public lands public! Thats why the unprecedented sell-off of millions of acres of public lands needs to be removed from the Senate Budget Bill.

Nature is non partisan! 🇺🇸

Pass it on!

June 19th - Host or attend a watch party this Juneteenth and keep the conversation going all summer long.

June 21st – Watch the Virtual Author Read-In featuring some of your favorite children's book authors, 12-2:00 pm EST.

Details for both events at ReadStrongAmerica.org.

Graphic: Read Strong America Juneteenth Watch Party & Read-In June 19th - Host or attend a watch party this Juneteenth and keep the conversation going all summer long. June 21st – Watch the Virtual Author Read-In featuring some of your favorite children's book authors, 12-2:00 pm EST. Both at ReadStrongAmerica.org

Lift our voices. Defend the right to read.

This #Juneteenth, join the Read Strong America movement — a powerful conversation to denounce censorship, promote literacy and literature, uplift librarians, and spark community action.

Teach Truth March from NMAAHC to NMAI A march hosted by Teaching for Change’s D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice (DCAESJ), CARE Washington, D.C., EmpowerEd, and National Education Association (NEA), from the National Museum of African...

2️⃣ Days!! DMV #EduSky, have you heard?! This Saturday, we'll march to defend the right to teach truthfully about U.S. history and the climate crisis. Together we will defend the rights of LGBTQ+ and immigrant students.
#TeachTruth #WorldPrideDC

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Join our friends @empowereddc.bsky.social to honor incredible D.C. educators at their annual D.C. Teacher Voice Awards & Benefit!

FREADOM Town Hall Rally at MLK Memorial Library On Saturday, May 31, authors, educators, parents, and artists including Kwame Alexander, Ibram X. Kendi, Amanda Jones, Meg Medina, Jason Reynolds, and more will gather at a Town Hall Rally to defend c...

DMV #EDUSky Join us (and @zinnedproject.bsky.social ) at FREADOM Town Hall Rally at MLK Memorial Library ! #TeachTruth
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Teach Truth March from NMAAHC to NMAI — D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice DCAESJ Event | A walk/march from the National Museum of African American History Culture (NMAAHC) to National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), to highlight the censorship of history in schools a...

DMV #EduSky, we invite you, D.C. area students, parents, and community members to join us in defending the freedom to learn on Saturday, June 7, the 5th annual Teach Truth Day of Action coordinated by @zinnedproject.bsky.social .

#TeachTruth

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See you online tonight!

Orange Graphic with white text that reads "For teacher appreciation week, we imagine a world where teachers are able to teach freely and empower young people to not only read and write, but change the world. " Picture of two teachers on the left Black woman with glasses, pink pixie cut hair, a neon yellow blazer and white t-shirt, smiling. On the right a brown skinned woman with long black hair, glasses, a jean jacket and a light shirt.

This #TeacherAppreciationWeek we celebrate the incredible truth teachers/tellers in school classrooms. We also raise attention to the contrast of what is desired and the reality.

We invite our community to dream into ✨the futures we imagine ✨.

DMV #EduSky, we hope to see you there!

TODAY!

April 16, 1862: Compensated Emancipation Act The federal government compensated the “owners” of enslaved people for their “loss of property.” The people whose labor and families were stolen for generations were not compensated nor given any assi...

#tdih 1862, DC Compensated Emancipation Act.

Was the compensation for the people who suffered torture & other human rights abuses & whose
labor,
knowledge,
skills,
& families
were stolen for generations?💔

NO.

Read ⬇️ #Reparations #DCEmancipationDay
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Image of D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice working group members at the April Working Group Convening. Green background with white text reads Educator Community, Curriculum collaboration, Professional Learning Activism.

DCAESJ Working Group members and Teaching for Change staff ahead of the Hands Off! D.C. rally on Saturday, April 5.

On, Saturday, April 5, we held our working group quarterly meeting with the theme of advocacy! We topped off the day by putting advocacy into practice by participating in the Hands Off! activation in Washington, D.C.

"Don't Comply!"

Unforgettable Sacrifice: How Black Communities Remembered the Civil War - Teaching for Change Wednesday, April 23Busboys and Poets 14th and V Participants will hear from historian Hilary N. Green on her new book, Unforgettable Sacrifice How Black Communities Remembered the Civil War. The book ...

You can whet your appetite by attending @teachingchange.bsky.social and @busboysandpoets.bsky.social April 23rd event featuring historian Hilary N. Green and her new book "Unforgettable Sacrifice: How Black Communities Remembered the Civil War."

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African American Civil War Memorial and Museum Civil War to Civil Rights: Reconstruction Summer Teacher Seminar July 14 - 17, 2025.

DMV #Edusky: Join the African American Civil War Memorial and Museum this summer in a four-day summer teacher seminar Civil War to Civil Rights: Reconstruction. The application deadline is approaching - April 10th!

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We couldn't agree more! 😊

Rest/Imagine: Themes for a Bloodline — D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice Attend the Little City Concerts Commission, titled  Rest/Imagine: Themes for a Bloodline by drummer and composer Keith Butler, Jr .  Written for Seysew (flute, piano, bass, drums),...

We know Saturday, April 5,is powerpacked, particularly in the D.M.V. Forgive us as we add one more opportunity for you to consider!

Spend your Saturday evening with us. www.dcareaeducators4socialjustice.org/events/rest-...

Graphic: multicolored sunburst with teal background and blue and white text that reads Happy Birthday JuJu House, Teach the Beat Founding Teaching Artist. Image of Experience Unlimited (E.U.) drummer, William "JuJu" House.

🎉 Happy Birthday to JuJu, a legendary drummer 🥁 and one of the founding teaching artists for our Teach the Beat initiative that brings go-go music into the classroom (🔗 in bio).

The beat keeps going with JuJu as part of our community! 🎶

#TeachtheBeat