"Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching is a teaching resource book that emphasizes the power of people through a diversity of stories, perspectives, essays, photographs, graphics, interviews, and interactive and interdisciplinary lessons."
Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching provides a multitude of resources to help educators teach difficult and complex issues around civil rights, critique the traditional narrative, and frame the Civil Rights movement so that students feel empowered to explore well-informed opinions. The curriculum’s topics include desegregation, voting rights, Black Power, labor, land, economics, international connections, student engagement and contemporary connections.
- Student Engagement and Contemporary Connections
- Black Power
- Teaching for Change
- Zinn Education Project
- Readings
- Teaching Reflections
- Teaching Activities
Presence Evaluation: Full Presence
Evaluation Notes: The curriculum challenges students to think critically about the civil rights movement and consider ways they can make a difference in their own community.
Presence Evaluation: Some Presence
Evaluation Notes: The curriculum includes a focus on action but primarily explores ways in which others took action during the Civil Rights Movement.
Presence Evaluation: Full Presence
Evaluation Notes: These lessons focus on how the students can positively impact their community.
Presence Evaluation: Minimal Presence
Evaluation Notes: The curriculum minimally discusses how the school will teach social justice at the classroom level and administrative level.
Presence Evaluation: Full Presence
Evaluation Notes: Many lessons feature direct social justice teaching. Students are supported with key terms and phrases and real-life examples.
Presence Evaluation: Not Present
Evaluation Notes: No lessons reviewed address the topics of self-love and self-knowledge.
Presence Evaluation: Not Present
Evaluation Notes: To date, there has been no empirical study of this curriculum to evaluate its effectiveness.
Presence Evaluation: Full Presence
Evaluation Notes: There is an emphasis on inclusion and equity by examining how acts of racism, classism, homophobia, and sexism affect an individual’s experiences.
Presence Evaluation: N/A
Evaluation Notes: We are unable to evaluate this domain since it is best measured through teacher observation.
Presence Evaluation: Full Presence
Evaluation Notes: The lessons reviewed explore the ways people have been marginalized due to their social identities.