Kindergarten students study the Black Lives Matter Principle “intergenerational” during the Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action, developing a deep understanding of the principles by reading and discussing multiple books.

Dr. Shani King, children’s rights lawyer, professor, and children’s book author, joined first grade students at Garrison ES for a virtual read-aloud of his new book, Have I Ever Told You Black Lives Matter.

By Lizzie McCord
Dr. Alana Murray and Tiferet Ani shared resources for teaching about Black women’s activism during the 2021 Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action Curriculum Fair. They began the session by sharing some historical context for Black women’s organizing, giving special consideration to the work of the Combahee River Collective and Marsha P. Johnson of STAR.

By Lizzie McCord
During the 2021 Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action Curriculum Fair, Jaimee A. Swift led a workshop building on her work at Black Women Radicals, the organization she founded to uplift the stories of Black women and gender expansive people’s activism.

By Lila Chafe
Almost one hundred participants attended Dr. Shari Berga’s workshop, co-facilitated by Akailah Jenkins McIntyre, titled “Teaching, Loving, and Believing Black Girls.” Both facilitators are part of the Wells Collective, a collaborative of diversity practitioners that focus their work on empowering women.

By Ashley Bryant
After a busy morning of attending the BLM at Schools Virtual Curriculum Fair on Saturday, January 30, 2021 with powerful conversations about teaching resistance and oppression, global issues of restorative justice, and displacement and protest in Washington D.C., Dekebra’s presentation titled “Mindful Moments: Radical Wellness for Black Lives” was a welcomed and much-needed call to self-care.

From Maryland to Missouri, Oregon, New York, North Carolina to the District of Columbia; over 100 attendees joined Peta Lindsay, Charla Johnson, and Cyrus Hampton, leaders of the Ida B. Wells Education Project, in a panel discussion via Zoom on “Joy in Resistance: Teaching about Oppression with Hope and Inspiration” as part of the Teaching for Change and Howard University’s 2021 Black Lives Matter at School Curriculum Fair.

By Leah Danville
Dr. Tiffany Mitchell Patterson is an Assistant Professor of Secondary Social Studies in West Virginia University’s College of Education & Human Services Department of Curriculum & Instruction (CILS). On Tuesday, February 2, she hopped on her two-hour Zoom class with 12 pre-service secondary social studies teachers for the first monthly lesson on how to implement a Black Lives Matters (BLM) curriculum into their future classrooms. The class, comprised of people in their 20s and 30s who are almost all white, quickly identified similarities between the BLM movement and guiding principles in their own lives.

DC Public Schools has endorsed the Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action and sent the following notice and video to all its staff: DCPS is proud to support DC Black Lives Matter at Schools Week of Action, taking place from February 1-5, 2021. This week is a national movement of educators organizing for racial justice in education. The goal is to collectively affirm the lives and uplift the voices of Black students.