Organizations

An organization dedicated to the belief that a profound understanding of citizenship is the only safeguard of democracy and the best defense of social, racial, economic, and environmental justice.

The goal of this organization is to promote an honest and diverse understanding of history.

This research center at the University at Buffalo conducts research that promotes the teaching and learning of Black history and racial literacy in K-12 education.

Common Good Collective provides change leaders with the space to work with one another to design, implement, and sustain systemic and spiritual transformation.

Community Connections for Youth (CCFY) is rooted in the South Bronx and committed to keeping young people out of the justice system. We step in early to disrupt the pipeline to incarceration by supporting youth and their families through holistic mentoring, advocacy, and system navigation.

This site from Karen Yin helps writers and editors think critically about using language—including words, portrayals, framing, and representation—to empower instead of limit. In one place, you can access style guides covering terminology for various communities and find articles debating usage. This site is vital for helping students understand how to use words as tools instead of unwitting weapons.

The Democracy Toolkit equips reporters, editors, newsroom leaders, educators and engagement specialists with vetted, relevant resources to help meet this moment of democratic backsliding in America.

FH&O equips schools, districts, and teachers with the tools they need to shape the future by nurturing empathy, curiosity, and civic responsibility in young people.

Human Rights for Kids is a national non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion and protection of the rights of children.

Learning for Justice (LFJ) is a community education program of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) that cultivates and nurtures dialogue, learning, reflection and civic action from those closest to and harmed most by injustices.

Rethinking Schools is a nonprofit publisher and advocacy organization dedicated to sustaining and strengthening public education through social justice teaching and education activism.

This site has classroom-ready primary sources documents and teaching activities for students at every level to learn about the working people and ordinary Americans who shaped history.

The Social Studies Network is run by teachers, researchers, students, and community organizers. They provide free resources to help teachers plan individual lessons, units, and year-long curricula.

Street law is a global, nonprofit, nonpartisan program of legal and civics education geared at secondary school students. Street law is an approach to teaching practically relevant law to grassroots populations using interactive teaching methodologies.

Teaching for Change provides teachers and parents with the tools to create schools where students learn to read, write, and change the world. Their Social Justice Booklist that critically reviews multicultural and social justice books for children, young adults, and adults is especially useful.

This website from the California Department of Education is dedicated to providing resources and materials that fulfill the requirements put forth by the FAIR Education Act.

The UCLA School of Law Critical Race Studies Program (CRS) launched CRT Forward, an initiative to address the current attacks on Critical Race Theory (CRT) while also highlighting the past, present and future contributions of the theory. Its project mapping attacks on CRT concluded in 2024.

This organizes to end youth incarceration and build a world without prisons and police.

This hub features expansive curriculum and resources to enrich YPAR projects.

The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the teaching of people’s history in classrooms across the country. The site includes media recommendations and a searchable database of hundreds of lessons for social studies teachers.

FH&O equips schools, districts, and teachers with the tools they need to shape the future by nurturing empathy, curiosity, and civic responsibility in young people.