Showing posts with label resources and research. Show all posts
Showing posts with label resources and research. Show all posts

School Closings Fact Sheets

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A TSJ working group/task force has created a series of Popular Education Pieces on school closings. Please download and share these fact ...

CTU's Report on Schools Chicago's Students Deserve

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( Click here to download the full report. ) Back in the middle of this past February, the Chicago Teachers Union released a comprehensive...

Teaching Trayvon Martin and Other Resources

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The following is a blog post that was shared by our brothers and sisters and compañer@s in the New York Collective of Radical Teachers (NY...

Suspension Stories: A New Resource to Address the School to Prison Pipeline

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The Rogers Park Young Women's Action Team and Project NIA are proud to announce the launch of Suspension Stories . Suspension Sto...

UPLIFT's First Annual Social Justice Expo

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*Postponed!!  New Date!!!* UPLIFT Community High School's *First Annual Social Justice Expo* postponed.  Due to snowstorm, the new ...

Planning to Change the World: A Plan Book for Social Justice Teachers

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Our friends at the Education for Liberation Network just announced the publication of the 2010-2011 edition of Planning to Change the ...

Summary of Research Studies on Renaissance 2010

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Research findings: A growing body of research indicates Chicago’s Renaissance 2010 plan to close, phase out, consolidate, or turn a...

CURRICULUM: Something is Wrong: Exploring the Roots of Youth Violence

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Project NIA, the Chicago Freedom School and Teachers for Social Justice have partnered along with other volunteers to develop a curriculum...

CURRICULUM: Understanding Social Systems through the Olympics Bid

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This exhibit will present material on a student action-research project around the Olympics created for a History course. It's geared ...

CURRICULUM: Using Maps to Explore Place Awareness Through Abstract Design

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DESCRIPTION: Even though students may live in a city, where the people they encounter each day come from all over, they might still be unfam...

Exploring the Roots of Youth Violence

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A Youth-Led Action Research Curriculum Guide Call for Curriculum Submissions The Chicago Freedom School, Project NIA and Teachers for So...

Curriculum: Visual & Cultural Backgrounds through the Art of Robert Grober

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The contemporary artist Robert Gober gives subversive meaning to wallpaper in an installation at the AIC. Using juxtaposition and repetiti...

Research Reports Support Moratorium on School Closings

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Two studies were released on Tuesday Feb 17th at a GEM press conference. They can be found below at the Collaborative for Equity and Ju...

Curriculum: The Whale's Stomach & Environmental Justice

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Preview: The bag of items represents the stomach contents of a dying, 28-foot female sperm whale found on a beach in North Carolina in Dece...

Curriculum: Math & the Vanishing Rainforests

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 A discussion of the importance of Rainforests and how we can analyze their health. Writer: Pamela Krausz, Institute for Humane Education ...

Curriculum: More than a Label: Analyizing Attitudes & Practicing Tolerance

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This activity inspires students to think about their own areas of bigotry and to identify how we develop our attitudes about others, and it ...

Curriculum: Analyzing Advertising

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From the Institute for Humane Education and The Power and Promise of Humane Education. Curriculum Writers: Amy Morley, Kristina Hulversho...

Curriculum: Using Visual Arts to Explore Local Community

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A visual arts lesson plan that allows students to explore their connection to their local community. For very young students to begin to fos...
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Curriculum: Examining Conflict Histories from Multiple Perspectives

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The content focuses on the conflict surrounding labor unions from the perspectives of: the government, management, pro-union laborers, and a...

Curriculum: Unit Plan: What Young People Should Know Before Joining the Military

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“What Young People Should Know Before Joining the Military” is a unit designed for a 10th grade US History class. The historical component r...