Support Teaching People’s History

Here’s how you can support and promote the work of the Zinn Education Project.

Donate

Donate to the Zinn Education Project so that we can continue to offer all our lessons for free and defend teachers’ right to use them. Donations of any amount are welcome. Let us know if we can publicly acknowledge your support. Donate today!

Register for the Zinn Education Project

Registration is free and will allow you to download free teaching activities. You will automatically be added to our email list to receive occasional updates.

Connect Your Colleagues and Networks

Make sure other teachers and teacher educators in your networks know about the Zinn Education Project website. Post a notice about the Zinn Education Project in newsletters, on social networking sites, and at your school.  Here is an announcement you can use or adapt:

The Zinn Education Project: Teaching a People’s History website offers hundreds of free, downloadable lessons for middle and high school classrooms to bring people’s history to the classroom. Coordinated by Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change, the site also lists hundreds of recommended books, films, and websites. The lessons and resources are organized by theme, time period, and grade level. This is the only collection of its kind for educators — print or online — in the country. Visit and register today.

Share on Social Media

Join our vibrant social media community and share with your network.

Tell Your Story

Share stories, photos, and/or film clips about how you teach people’s history in your classroom. We will use selected examples for the website and other outreach to demonstrate the impact of teaching people’s history and share teaching ideas. (Remember that, for photos and film clips, there needs to permission from students’ families to use classroom images.) Contribute your story.

Volunteer

Volunteers and interns are needed to help with promotion, documentation, identification of more titles for the resource list, and more. Availability in the Washington, D.C. area preferred but not essential. Send your letter of interest and resume via Teaching for Change here.

Spread the Word

Spread the word by hanging posters, passing out bookmarks and booklets, or having a display at your bookfair, conference or community event. Request a Teach, Vote, Resist, Organize full color poster.

To request bookmarks or booklets be mailed to you, fill out an online form or email.

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