Teaching for Change is hosting the second annual Teach Central America Week from October 5 – 11, 2020. Hundreds of teachers from 29 states and the District of Columbia have signed up to participate and organizations have endorsed the week. We have added several new resources for teaching about Central America to our website, including new books and teaching guides appropriate for use with elementary students.

Join Salvadoran American journalist Roberto Lovato, author of the new book Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas, for a virtual book talk.

Teaching for Change is partnering with Filmfest DC: The Washington, D.C. International Film Festival (Oct 2 - Oct 11) for a ninth year to spread the word about the international film festival and to bring films and filmmakers for films into D.C. virtual classrooms. FilmFest DC is offering tickets for four classes to see specific films during the festival and offering two opportunities for film producers to virtually visit a class.

This year, D.C. educators, Lia Bengtson and Tarja Lewis presented during the 2020 National Deaf Education Conference. Bengston and Lewis are middle school educators at the Kendall Demonstration School, Secondary School for the Deaf. Their presentation, Exploring Hidden Narratives to Engage Diverse Students cover topics of representation and cross-curricular lessons that teach hard history.