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Coordinated by Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change.

Dear {{Preferred Name/First Name}},

To contribute to national efforts to get out the vote and defend the elections, we encourage middle and high school teachers to focus on voting rights and the Constitution in September and October. 

Teachers can help young people see voting as part of a broader effort to improve their lives and communities and to see themselves as agents of change rather than spectators to politics. 

We ask for your help to send free voting rights toolkits to educators nationwide.

We’ll provide Voting Rights Teaching Toolkits free of charge from September through Election Day. The toolkits include classroom lessons, gallery walks, posters, stickers, infographics, and more on voting, the Constitution, and the fight for democracy.

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Demand is growing, but our budget is limited. We now have the resources to send 50 voting rights teaching toolkits to classrooms. With your support, we can send 500 toolkits.

Each teacher reaches more than 100 students. Those students engage with peers, family, and community members. With 500 toolkits, we'll reach at least 500,000 young people. 

The toolkits cost $20 each to produce and mail.  

Please make a donation today.

Attempts are underway to sabotage this November’s elections. Democracy depends on broad participation as well as fair elections. 

Thank you for providing young people with tools to defend voting rights.

Sincerely,
Deborah Menkart
Zinn Education Project co-director

 

P.S. As a contributor, you will receive updates on the distribution of the toolkits and classroom stories about their impact.

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Events
100 years of high school student organizing class announcement with book covers and headshots
On Monday, September 28, join Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian in conversation with historians Aaron G. Fountain Jr. and Jon N. Hale about student organizing and state repression.
Fountain is the author of High School Students Unite!: Teen Activism, Education Reform, and FBI Surveillance in Postwar America and Hale wrote A New Kind of Youth: Historically Black High Schools and Southern Student Activism, 1920–1975. ASL interpretation and PD certificates are provided.
100 years of high school student organizing class announcement with book covers and headshots
On Monday, October 26, join Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian in conversation with author Howard Bryant about his book Kings and Pawns: Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson in America, which tells the untold story of sports and fame, Black life in the United States, and the promise of integration during the Cold War. ASL interpretation and PD certificates are provided.

We Need Your Help

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Teachers are under attack for teaching truthfully about U.S. history. Please donate so we can continue to offer free people’s history lessons and resources, and defend teachers’ right to use them.
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