Rethinking Schools Solidarity Statement
Educators for Social Justice stands in solidarity with Rethinking Schools, a nonprofit publisher and advocacy organization, dedicated to sustaining and strengthening public education through social justice teaching and education activism.
Rethinking Schools began in 1986, as a group of Milwaukee-area teachers with a vision. They wanted not only to improve education in their own classrooms and schools, but to help shape reform throughout the public-school system in the United States.https://www.rethinkingschools.org/about/index.shtml
Educators for Social Justice not only shares that vision but understands the power and potential of groups of educators working together to create a better, more, humane, and equitable educational system. Indeed, ESJ began in 2001 as a small group of educators across the lifespan committed to social justice in classrooms, schools, and communities. 16 years later, ESJ is a not-for-profit organization that holds an annual “Educating for Change Curriculum Conference,” book clubs, racial equity curriculum partnership, Inquiry to Action Groups, and is in coalition with other community groups to break the school-to-prison pipeline through policy changes that ban out-of-school suspensions for young children. ESJ is unique because it is run entirely by educators for educators.
Each year, Rethinking Schools sponsors ESJ’s Educating for Change Curriculum Conference, sending resources and support. ESJ, in turn, promotes the national efforts of Rethinking Schools. Indeed, educators within the ESJ network often use the magazines, books, and website resources to encourage grassroots efforts in schools and communities to enhance the learning and well-being of children and youth, to build broad democratic movements for social and environmental justice.
Rethinking Schools is a shining example of what can happen when a group of educators comes together to make the world a better place.
Rethinking Schools began in 1986, as a group of Milwaukee-area teachers with a vision. They wanted not only to improve education in their own classrooms and schools, but to help shape reform throughout the public-school system in the United States.https://www.rethinkingschools.org/about/index.shtml
Educators for Social Justice not only shares that vision but understands the power and potential of groups of educators working together to create a better, more, humane, and equitable educational system. Indeed, ESJ began in 2001 as a small group of educators across the lifespan committed to social justice in classrooms, schools, and communities. 16 years later, ESJ is a not-for-profit organization that holds an annual “Educating for Change Curriculum Conference,” book clubs, racial equity curriculum partnership, Inquiry to Action Groups, and is in coalition with other community groups to break the school-to-prison pipeline through policy changes that ban out-of-school suspensions for young children. ESJ is unique because it is run entirely by educators for educators.
Each year, Rethinking Schools sponsors ESJ’s Educating for Change Curriculum Conference, sending resources and support. ESJ, in turn, promotes the national efforts of Rethinking Schools. Indeed, educators within the ESJ network often use the magazines, books, and website resources to encourage grassroots efforts in schools and communities to enhance the learning and well-being of children and youth, to build broad democratic movements for social and environmental justice.
Rethinking Schools is a shining example of what can happen when a group of educators comes together to make the world a better place.