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Save Our Schools March and National Call to Action
On July 30th Teacers for Social Justice participated in the Save our Schools March on Washington DC. The march is part of a national movement of teachers, parents, students, and progressive educators...
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Reframing Poverty in Our Schools: Using GIS to Map Inequality
by Jesse SenechalIn our highly polarized political environment – where every policy debate becomes an opportunity for harsh ideological clashes and brinkmanship – there seems to be one consistently...
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Mediation Helps Kids Handle Conflict
By Wendy Northup and Paul FleisherToo often, young people faced with a conflict turn to physical violence. How can we teach children to settle their differences civilly, with words instead? There’s a...
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A Predictable Disaster
by Gabriel A. Reich, Assistant Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Teaching and Learning.Since the Reagan administration, Americans have listened to a steady drumbeat decrying...
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Create consciousness: How do you facilitate lessons on race and racism in a...
Troy Davis at his high school graduation.By Katie Whelan, ESL teacher, Highland Springs High SchoolRace and ethnicity is a confusing topic demonstrated in the...
View ArticleRichmond Teachers for Social Justice Position Statement Against High Stakes...
Virginians have been told that the only way to improve our schools is to measure success using standardized tests, called SOLs. This seemed to be simple common sense. If the teacher teaches, the kids...
View ArticleSchools for a more perfect union: Reaffirming the goals of racially and...
By Genevieve Siegel-Hawley “Segregated schools were, and are, inferior schools,” declared President Barack Obama a year ago in his landmark speech on race relations in America. “We still haven’t fixed...
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Alternative news resources about what is happening with the Chicago Teachers’...
While the Chicago Teachers’ Strike has made national news, there has been a shortage of critical perspectives on the events that led to the strike or about its significance in the national context....
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TSJ Co-sponsors Testing Discussion at Midlothian High School Approximately 30 parents, teachers and students gathered on Tuesday, Jan. 29th at Midlothian High School to discuss the impacts of...
View ArticleOctober 19 Curriculum Fair: Call for Workshop Proposals
TSJ Curriculum FairOctober 19, 2013Holton Elementary SchoolRichmond, VirginiaRichmond Teachers for Social Justice is a group of educators and allies dedicated to creating a just, democratic,...
View ArticleFlipping the Script: A New Proposal for Teacher Merit Pay
by Gabriel A. Reich, Assistant Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Teaching and Learning.What makes a school strong? Is it the sum of the work that individuals do to achieve a...
View ArticleReport on The May 20th Forum on High Stakes Testing
The May 20th Richmond Teachers for Social Justice Testing Forum convened at Unity of Richmond with seventeen parents, teachers, and university faculty from the greater Richmond area. We gathered to...
View ArticleHigh Stakes Tests Are Poor Motivators
by Amy Peterson, Latin Teacher, Chesterfield Education Association Reposted from the Virginia Journal of Education, June 2013 There are two ways to motivate people, by threatening and...
View ArticleCrisis in Higher Education
By Jennifer Garvin-Sanchez, Ph.D.Last October Time Magazine devoted the cover and much of an entire issue to “Reinventing Higher Education.” According to a survey sponsored by TIME and the Carnegie...
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Take a look at our new poster for the upcoming Curriculum Fair on October 19.Hope to see you there!
View ArticleAn Education Declaration to Rebuild America
Richmond Teachers for Social Justice has endorsed this document. We invite you to read it, and sign on in support as well. You can sign here.Americans have long looked to our public schools to...
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5-9 pm Friday, September 20Join Richmond Teachers for Social Justice (RVATSJ) at Hardywood Park Craft Brewery for an evening of music, food, drink and community in order to raise awareness & money...
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Teachers for Social Justice Curriculum Fair
October 19 10 a.m.-2 p.m.Linwood Holton Elementary SchoolWorkshops include:* Service Learning and the School Garden Initiative* Games for Critical Thinking * Teaching Economics As If People Mattered *...
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What does teacher dissent look like? What does it mean to teach dissent?Join Richmond Teachers for Social Justice for a discussion on teacher dissent that will explore the framework developed by Sarah...
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