Rethinking Our Classrooms: Teaching for Equity and Justice

Rethinking Our Classrooms begins where most school reforms never go, inside the classroom. This collection includes creative teaching ideas, compelling classroom narratives and hands-on examples of ways teachers can promote values of community, justice, and equality--and build academic skills. Nowhere is the connection between critical teaching and effective classroom practice made clearer or more accessible.

Includes:

• Building Classroom Communities from Chaos
• Unlearning the Myths that Bind Us: Critiquing Fairy Tales & Films
• Race and Respect Among Young Children
• Why Students Should Study History: An Interview with Howard Zinn
• Flirting vs. Sexual Harassment
• Teaching for Social Justice: One Teacher's Journey
• Statistics with a Conscience
• How to Analyze Children's Books for Racism and Sexism
• Books to Empower Young People
• I Won't Learn from You! Confronting Student Resistance
• Beyond the Classroom: Why Changing Classrooms Is Not Enough