D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice
@dcaesj.bsky.social
Network of educators who seek to strengthen and deepen social justice teaching in DC, Maryland, and Virginia. Project of @teachingchange.bsky.social
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We are @teachingchange.bsky.social 's dedicated place-based work in the D.C. metro area. The D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice (DCAESJ) host working groups, public forums, workshops, and more.
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Looking for something to do THIS Saturday? Check out this event with The Brown Bookshelf to be held @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social 's MLK Jr. location.
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The Brown Bookshelf Tour — D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice
Join us the MLK Library for a family-focused panel discussion and live reading from four renowned children’s literature authors from The Brown Bookshelf.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Looking for something to do THIS Saturday? Check out this event with The Brown Bookshelf to be held @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social 's MLK Jr. location.
www.dcareaeducators4socialjustice.org/events/the-b...
www.dcareaeducators4socialjustice.org/events/the-b...
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DC!
Join @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social for a discussion of his book RECONSIDERING REPARATIONS with Jenice L. View, hosted by @teachingchange.bsky.social
Wednesday, October 22nd at
@busboysandpoets.bsky.social
RSVP to attend: www.teachingforchange.org/reconsiderin...
Join @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social for a discussion of his book RECONSIDERING REPARATIONS with Jenice L. View, hosted by @teachingchange.bsky.social
Wednesday, October 22nd at
@busboysandpoets.bsky.social
RSVP to attend: www.teachingforchange.org/reconsiderin...
Reconsidering Reparations: Author Talk with Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò - Teaching for Change
Join us on October 22 at 6:30pm at Busboys and Poets (14th & V) to hear from author Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, in conversation with Jenice L. View, on his book, Reconsidering Reparations: Why Climate Justice ...
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October 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
DC!
Join @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social for a discussion of his book RECONSIDERING REPARATIONS with Jenice L. View, hosted by @teachingchange.bsky.social
Wednesday, October 22nd at
@busboysandpoets.bsky.social
RSVP to attend: www.teachingforchange.org/reconsiderin...
Join @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social for a discussion of his book RECONSIDERING REPARATIONS with Jenice L. View, hosted by @teachingchange.bsky.social
Wednesday, October 22nd at
@busboysandpoets.bsky.social
RSVP to attend: www.teachingforchange.org/reconsiderin...
🗓️This is a great way to show solidarity to your fellow educators! We hope to see you Thursday!
🎟️DC: get your tickets now! It’s almost #HispanicHeritageMonth and it’s time to celebrate our Latina/o educators! events.humanitix.com/mojitos-y-ma...
September 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
🗓️This is a great way to show solidarity to your fellow educators! We hope to see you Thursday!
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NY/NJ and all locales close #Edusky, did you know that this year's Native Knowledge 360 will be in NYC this year?! That's right, we'll be live from National Museum of the American Indian-NY THIS Saturday, September 20.
Join us! Learn more and register.
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Join us! Learn more and register.
www.teachingforchange.org/nyc-native-k...
2025 Native Knowledge 360° Teach-In - Teaching for Change
Ninth Annual Native Knowledge 360° Teach-In Saturday, September 20, 202510:00AM – 3:00PMNational Museum of the American Indian1 Bowling GreenNew York, NY 10004 Tickets are $20 a person. Contact Teachi...
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September 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
NY/NJ and all locales close #Edusky, did you know that this year's Native Knowledge 360 will be in NYC this year?! That's right, we'll be live from National Museum of the American Indian-NY THIS Saturday, September 20.
Join us! Learn more and register.
www.teachingforchange.org/nyc-native-k...
Join us! Learn more and register.
www.teachingforchange.org/nyc-native-k...
We are in deep gratitude and appreciation following our fourth annual Social Justice Curriculum Fair. Over 100 educators came together to spend time in community and in commitment to teaching truth, affirming students' identities, and teaching FOR change.
September 2, 2025 at 9:27 PM
We are in deep gratitude and appreciation following our fourth annual Social Justice Curriculum Fair. Over 100 educators came together to spend time in community and in commitment to teaching truth, affirming students' identities, and teaching FOR change.
On Thursday, August 28, kick off Labor Day 2025 and solidarity season with a rally and march. #FreeDC
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Solidarity Season: Labor Day 2025 Rally + March — Free DC
Workers make DC run and we deserve better than mass firings, union busting, deportations, and occupation. Workers across the DC region need to be in solidarity with one another now more than ever b...
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August 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
On Thursday, August 28, kick off Labor Day 2025 and solidarity season with a rally and march. #FreeDC
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And @freedcproject.bsky.social has put together a 2025 Back to School Community Safety Toolkit — check it out at freedcproject.org/schools
Back to School Community Safety Toolkit — Free DC
Families and parent organizations have an important role to play in ensuring schools remain safe, structured, and supportive places for children to learn. This toolkit compiles ideas from education ad...
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August 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
And @freedcproject.bsky.social has put together a 2025 Back to School Community Safety Toolkit — check it out at freedcproject.org/schools
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Our @zinnedproject.bsky.social 's Teach the Black Freedom Struggle classes are back!
Join us tonight as we kick off the school year with @clintsmithiii.bsky.social . ✨️
Join us tonight as we kick off the school year with @clintsmithiii.bsky.social . ✨️
Looking forward to this conversation tonight with the good folks at @zinnedproject.bsky.social discussing my young readers edition of How The Word Is Passed, out next month.
Virtual, free, and open to anyone. 25 attendees will also get a free book. Join us!
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Virtual, free, and open to anyone. 25 attendees will also get a free book. Join us!
www.zinnedproject.org/news/how-the...
August 25, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Our @zinnedproject.bsky.social 's Teach the Black Freedom Struggle classes are back!
Join us tonight as we kick off the school year with @clintsmithiii.bsky.social . ✨️
Join us tonight as we kick off the school year with @clintsmithiii.bsky.social . ✨️
DMV #EduSky,
These times call for community.
These times call for curriculum collaboration.
These times call for professional learning.
These times call for activism.
Experience the solutions for these times at the fourth annual Social Justice Curriculum Fair: Guided by Love.
bit.ly/sojust25
These times call for community.
These times call for curriculum collaboration.
These times call for professional learning.
These times call for activism.
Experience the solutions for these times at the fourth annual Social Justice Curriculum Fair: Guided by Love.
bit.ly/sojust25
August 22, 2025 at 11:40 PM
DMV #EduSky,
These times call for community.
These times call for curriculum collaboration.
These times call for professional learning.
These times call for activism.
Experience the solutions for these times at the fourth annual Social Justice Curriculum Fair: Guided by Love.
bit.ly/sojust25
These times call for community.
These times call for curriculum collaboration.
These times call for professional learning.
These times call for activism.
Experience the solutions for these times at the fourth annual Social Justice Curriculum Fair: Guided by Love.
bit.ly/sojust25
DMV #EduSky, this is our love letter to you.
Our fourth annual Social Justice Curriculum Fair, “Guided by Love,” is both a tribute and a call to action. Honoring the radical, everyday love that YOU show by teaching truth.
See you on Saturday, August 23.
Our fourth annual Social Justice Curriculum Fair, “Guided by Love,” is both a tribute and a call to action. Honoring the radical, everyday love that YOU show by teaching truth.
See you on Saturday, August 23.
August 14, 2025 at 11:40 AM
DMV #EduSky, this is our love letter to you.
Our fourth annual Social Justice Curriculum Fair, “Guided by Love,” is both a tribute and a call to action. Honoring the radical, everyday love that YOU show by teaching truth.
See you on Saturday, August 23.
Our fourth annual Social Justice Curriculum Fair, “Guided by Love,” is both a tribute and a call to action. Honoring the radical, everyday love that YOU show by teaching truth.
See you on Saturday, August 23.
🧵 DMV #EDUSky is it too early to ask y'all to get ready for the 2025 - 2026 school year by REGISTERING for our annual Social Justice Curriculum Fair?!!
We don't think so! 😏 Join us on Saturday, August 23, 2025 and invite your colleagues!
www.dcareaeducators4socialjustice.org/events/2025-...
We don't think so! 😏 Join us on Saturday, August 23, 2025 and invite your colleagues!
www.dcareaeducators4socialjustice.org/events/2025-...
2025 Social Justice Curriculum Fair — D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice
DCAESJ Event | REGISTER TODAY for the annual Social Justice Curriculum Fair, an opportunity for D.C. area educators to connect in person while exploring curriculum aligned with various social justice...
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June 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
🧵 DMV #EDUSky is it too early to ask y'all to get ready for the 2025 - 2026 school year by REGISTERING for our annual Social Justice Curriculum Fair?!!
We don't think so! 😏 Join us on Saturday, August 23, 2025 and invite your colleagues!
www.dcareaeducators4socialjustice.org/events/2025-...
We don't think so! 😏 Join us on Saturday, August 23, 2025 and invite your colleagues!
www.dcareaeducators4socialjustice.org/events/2025-...
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Conserving our environment is an American value. From hikers to hunters we want to keep our public lands public! Thats why the unprecedented sell-off of millions of acres of public lands needs to be removed from the Senate Budget Bill.
Nature is non partisan! 🇺🇸
Pass it on!
Nature is non partisan! 🇺🇸
Pass it on!
June 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Conserving our environment is an American value. From hikers to hunters we want to keep our public lands public! Thats why the unprecedented sell-off of millions of acres of public lands needs to be removed from the Senate Budget Bill.
Nature is non partisan! 🇺🇸
Pass it on!
Nature is non partisan! 🇺🇸
Pass it on!
Lift our voices. Defend the right to read.
This #Juneteenth, join the Read Strong America movement — a powerful conversation to denounce censorship, promote literacy and literature, uplift librarians, and spark community action.
This #Juneteenth, join the Read Strong America movement — a powerful conversation to denounce censorship, promote literacy and literature, uplift librarians, and spark community action.
June 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Lift our voices. Defend the right to read.
This #Juneteenth, join the Read Strong America movement — a powerful conversation to denounce censorship, promote literacy and literature, uplift librarians, and spark community action.
This #Juneteenth, join the Read Strong America movement — a powerful conversation to denounce censorship, promote literacy and literature, uplift librarians, and spark community action.
2️⃣ Days!! DMV #EduSky, have you heard?! This Saturday, we'll march to defend the right to teach truthfully about U.S. history and the climate crisis. Together we will defend the rights of LGBTQ+ and immigrant students.
#TeachTruth #WorldPrideDC
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#TeachTruth #WorldPrideDC
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Teach Truth March from NMAAHC to NMAI
A march hosted by Teaching for Change’s D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice (DCAESJ), CARE Washington, D.C., EmpowerEd, and National Education Association (NEA), from the National Museum of African...
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June 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
2️⃣ Days!! DMV #EduSky, have you heard?! This Saturday, we'll march to defend the right to teach truthfully about U.S. history and the climate crisis. Together we will defend the rights of LGBTQ+ and immigrant students.
#TeachTruth #WorldPrideDC
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#TeachTruth #WorldPrideDC
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Join our friends @empowereddc.bsky.social to honor incredible D.C. educators at their annual D.C. Teacher Voice Awards & Benefit!
We’re so excited to honor amazing DC educators at our annual benefit -the DC Teacher Voice Awards- next Thursday 6/12. We’re thrilled that @repjahanahayes.bsky.social a former educator currently fighting threats to education in Congress is joining. Get your ticket: secure.ngpvan.com/tKbRS_KDn0up...
June 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Join our friends @empowereddc.bsky.social to honor incredible D.C. educators at their annual D.C. Teacher Voice Awards & Benefit!
DMV #EDUSky Join us (and @zinnedproject.bsky.social ) at FREADOM Town Hall Rally at MLK Memorial Library ! #TeachTruth
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FREADOM Town Hall Rally at MLK Memorial Library
On Saturday, May 31, authors, educators, parents, and artists including Kwame Alexander, Ibram X. Kendi, Amanda Jones, Meg Medina, Jason Reynolds, and more will gather at a Town Hall Rally to defend c...
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May 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
DMV #EDUSky Join us (and @zinnedproject.bsky.social ) at FREADOM Town Hall Rally at MLK Memorial Library ! #TeachTruth
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DMV #EduSky, we invite you, D.C. area students, parents, and community members to join us in defending the freedom to learn on Saturday, June 7, the 5th annual Teach Truth Day of Action coordinated by @zinnedproject.bsky.social .
#TeachTruth
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#TeachTruth
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Teach Truth March from NMAAHC to NMAI — D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice
DCAESJ Event | A walk/march from the National Museum of African American History Culture (NMAAHC) to National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), to highlight the censorship of history in schools a...
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May 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
DMV #EduSky, we invite you, D.C. area students, parents, and community members to join us in defending the freedom to learn on Saturday, June 7, the 5th annual Teach Truth Day of Action coordinated by @zinnedproject.bsky.social .
#TeachTruth
www.dcareaeducators4socialjustice.org/events/teach...
#TeachTruth
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See you online tonight!
#EDUSky and education community: TONIGHT! Join our @zinnedproject.bsky.social (co-directed with @rethinkingschools.bsky.social ) for a conversation with Jason Stanley.
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Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future
Scholar Jason Stanley, in conversation with Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian, will discuss his new book, Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future, which exposes the...
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May 12, 2025 at 2:38 PM
See you online tonight!
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This #TeacherAppreciationWeek we celebrate the incredible truth teachers/tellers in school classrooms. We also raise attention to the contrast of what is desired and the reality.
We invite our community to dream into ✨the futures we imagine ✨.
We invite our community to dream into ✨the futures we imagine ✨.
May 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This #TeacherAppreciationWeek we celebrate the incredible truth teachers/tellers in school classrooms. We also raise attention to the contrast of what is desired and the reality.
We invite our community to dream into ✨the futures we imagine ✨.
We invite our community to dream into ✨the futures we imagine ✨.
DMV #EduSky, we hope to see you there!
🧵 Tomorrow, we host Hilary N. Green( @hngreen.bsky.social) in conversation with D.C. area educator, Jessica A. Rucker.
Join us at @busboysandpoets.bsky.social (14th and V.) for this FREE event.
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Join us at @busboysandpoets.bsky.social (14th and V.) for this FREE event.
www.teachingforchange.org/unforgettabl...
Unforgettable Sacrifice: How Black Communities Remembered the Civil War - Teaching for Change
Wednesday, April 23 Busboys and Poets 14th and V With an eye to the third and fourth generation of Black youth, Black women performed their memory work as acts of homemade citizenship. They created an...
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April 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
DMV #EduSky, we hope to see you there!
TODAY!
#DCEmancipationDay celebrates the courage and struggle of individuals who have fought for freedom, and how this work is still needed now.
As part of this year's celebration, join us for a "DC Emancipation Day Speak Out" on Wednesday April 16. Register: bit.ly/emancipation...
As part of this year's celebration, join us for a "DC Emancipation Day Speak Out" on Wednesday April 16. Register: bit.ly/emancipation...
April 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
TODAY!
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#tdih 1862, DC Compensated Emancipation Act.
Was the compensation for the people who suffered torture & other human rights abuses & whose
labor,
knowledge,
skills,
& families
were stolen for generations?💔
NO.
Read ⬇️ #Reparations #DCEmancipationDay
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Was the compensation for the people who suffered torture & other human rights abuses & whose
labor,
knowledge,
skills,
& families
were stolen for generations?💔
NO.
Read ⬇️ #Reparations #DCEmancipationDay
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/co...
April 16, 1862: Compensated Emancipation Act
The federal government compensated the “owners” of enslaved people for their “loss of property.” The people whose labor and families were stolen for generations were not compensated nor given any assi...
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April 16, 2025 at 10:39 AM
#tdih 1862, DC Compensated Emancipation Act.
Was the compensation for the people who suffered torture & other human rights abuses & whose
labor,
knowledge,
skills,
& families
were stolen for generations?💔
NO.
Read ⬇️ #Reparations #DCEmancipationDay
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/co...
Was the compensation for the people who suffered torture & other human rights abuses & whose
labor,
knowledge,
skills,
& families
were stolen for generations?💔
NO.
Read ⬇️ #Reparations #DCEmancipationDay
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/co...
On, Saturday, April 5, we held our working group quarterly meeting with the theme of advocacy! We topped off the day by putting advocacy into practice by participating in the Hands Off! activation in Washington, D.C.
"Don't Comply!"
"Don't Comply!"
April 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
On, Saturday, April 5, we held our working group quarterly meeting with the theme of advocacy! We topped off the day by putting advocacy into practice by participating in the Hands Off! activation in Washington, D.C.
"Don't Comply!"
"Don't Comply!"
DMV #Edusky: Join the African American Civil War Memorial and Museum this summer in a four-day summer teacher seminar Civil War to Civil Rights: Reconstruction. The application deadline is approaching - April 10th!
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April 3, 2025 at 9:47 PM
DMV #Edusky: Join the African American Civil War Memorial and Museum this summer in a four-day summer teacher seminar Civil War to Civil Rights: Reconstruction. The application deadline is approaching - April 10th!
afroamcivilwar.org/event/civil-...
afroamcivilwar.org/event/civil-...
We know Saturday, April 5,is powerpacked, particularly in the D.M.V. Forgive us as we add one more opportunity for you to consider!
Spend your Saturday evening with us. www.dcareaeducators4socialjustice.org/events/rest-...
Spend your Saturday evening with us. www.dcareaeducators4socialjustice.org/events/rest-...
Rest/Imagine: Themes for a Bloodline — D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice
Attend the Little City Concerts Commission, titled Rest/Imagine: Themes for a Bloodline by drummer and composer Keith Butler, Jr . Written for Seysew (flute, piano, bass, drums),...
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April 2, 2025 at 10:49 PM
We know Saturday, April 5,is powerpacked, particularly in the D.M.V. Forgive us as we add one more opportunity for you to consider!
Spend your Saturday evening with us. www.dcareaeducators4socialjustice.org/events/rest-...
Spend your Saturday evening with us. www.dcareaeducators4socialjustice.org/events/rest-...