| Palestine has long been one of the great silences in the official curriculum. Teaching Palestine: Lessons, Stories, Voices from Rethinking Schools provides educators with powerful tools to uncover the history and current context of Palestine-Israel in the classroom — lesson plans, poetry, personal narratives, interviews, role plays, critical reading and writing activities, and more. Edited by Bill Bigelow, Jesse Hagopian, Suzanna Kassouf, Adam Sanchez, and Samia Shoman. |
| In addition to the Rethinking Schools’ Teaching Palestine, check out this collection of titles for pre-K–12 and adults on Palestine, recommended by Teaching for Change’s Social Justice Books. |
| Organizational Silence |
| Many education organizations are silent about the genocide in Gaza — and sometimes attempt to silence others. An article in the excellent journal Jewish Currents highlights the refusal of Facing History and Ourselves to face current events, despite the appeals by dozens of staff members to the leadership. See the calls to the National Association of Independent Schools and the American Historical Association to address their problematic responses to the crisis. When national education organizations are silent on the devastation in Gaza, it leaves teachers more vulnerable to attack when they try to teach honestly about the region. |
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