Teaching Truth: Curriculum Fair Centering Black Lives, Art, and Resistance
Staff and presenters preparing for the 2025 Black Lives Matter at School Curriculum Fair.
On Saturday, January 25, 2025, D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice hosted a virtual curriculum fair, featuring an inspiring keynote by Jesse Hagopian and dynamic workshops rooted in the Black Lives Matter at School movement. The event centered on the national demands and guiding principles that focus on improving the school experience for Black students.
This year’s focus was the Intergenerational Principle, emphasizing the power of a communal network where people of all ages can lead and learn. Participants explored the 13 guiding principles, discussed key events for the National Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action (February 3–7, 2025), and connected with fellow educators committed to transformative teaching.
Read more about the 2025 fair, explore key takeaways, and access resources from past years (2022, 2023, and 2024).
Smothers elementary school in Washington, D.C., uplifts the intergenerational principle of BLM at School inviting Black women elders of their neighborhood into their classrooms.
SCHEDULE
11:30AM ET: Welcome & Keynote
12:05PM – 12:55 PM ET: Round 1 Workshops
A Rose by Any Other Name…Stinks: Addressing Trauma of Repeated Name Mispronunciation or Erasure
Black Face as a Tool of Expression, Dialogue, and Empowerment; Addressing Racially Charged Imagery in Art Class
Do Black Lives Matter in the Spanish Speaking World?
Finding Truth: Racial Reconciliation and the Power of Poetry
Go-Go as Public Pedagogy: Exploring Joy and Resistance through Arts and Culture
Liberating Music for the Black Child
1:00PM – 1:50 PM ET: Round 2 Workshops
Empowering Change: Educators as Architects of Justice and Democracy
Global Histories, Local Classrooms: Teaching Radical Black Movements in the U.K.
Liberating Music for the Black Child
Mending Our Classrooms through Community Art Practices
What Color is Your Clock? An Afrofuturist Perspective on Spacetime, Power & Identity
2:00PM – 2:30 PM ET: (OPTIONAL) Group Collaboration
