An essential collection of essays, interviews, poems, resolutions, and more from educators, students, and activists who have been building the Black Lives Matter at School movement across the country, including a foreword by Black Lives Matter co-founder Opal Tometi. "Black Lives Matter at School succinctly generalizes lessons from successful challenges to institutional racism that have been won through the Black Lives Matter at School movement. This book will inspire many more educators and activists to join the Black Lives Matter at School movement at a moment when this antiracist work in our schools could not be more urgent and critical to education justice. Contributors include Opal Tometi, who wrote a moving foreword, Bettina Love who shares a powerful chapter on abolitionist teaching, Brian Jones who centers Black Lives Matter at School in the historical context of the ongoing struggle for racial justice in education and prominent teacher union leaders from Chicago to Los Angeles and beyond who discuss the importance of anti-racist struggle in education unions. The book includes essays, interviews, poems, resolutions, and more from educators, students and parents around the country who have been building Black Lives Matter at School on the ground."--Publisher's description.

Making Black Lives Matter at School /Jesse Hagopian -- Black Lives Matter at School: historical perspectives / Brian Jones -- How one elementary school sparked a movement to make Black Students' Lives Matter / Wayne Au and Jesse Hagopian -- From Philly with love: Black Lives Matter at School goes national / Tamara Anderson -- Organizing the national curriculum / Christopher Rogers -- MapSO Freedom School and the statewide and national Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action Organizing / Awo Okaikor Aryee-Price -- Letter in solidarity with Black Lives Matter at School -- Black Lives Matter to the Chicago Teachers Union: an interview with Jennifer Johnson / Jennifer Johnson -- Pushing our union to do antiracist work: Los Angeles Teachers Union tackles racial justice / Cecily Myart-Cruz and Erika Jones -- Sample union endorsements -- The struggle for union support in New York City: an interview with Myrie / Myrie -- Successes and challenges garnering state and local union support in Howard County, Maryland: an interview with Erika Strauss Chavarria / Erika Strauss Chavarria -- Seattle educators' lesson plan for city officials : defund the police and spend the money on social programs and education! / Jesse Hagopian -- Defending the Boston Teachers Union from the Boston police -- Our schools need abolitionist, not reformers / Bettina L.Love -- NYC teachers bring the Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action to the early years / Lalena Garcia and Rosy Clark -- How to talk to young children about the Black Lives Matter guiding principles / Lalena Garcia / -- Bringing the team along : when solidarity leads to progress / Makai Kellogg -- Centering the youngest Black children : an interview with Takiema Bunche-Smith / Takiema Bunche-Smith -- Organizing the Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action in New Jersey : an interview with Raquel James-Goodman / Raquel James-Goodman -- This is my education : bringing the Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action to an African American immersion school in Milwaukee / Angela Harris -- Frequently asked questions about the Week of Action -- Higher education organizing for the Week of Action : an interview with Anthony Dandridge and Kiersten Greene / Anthony Dandridge and Kiersten Greene -- White educators for Black lives / Rosie Frascella, B. Kaiser, Brian Ford, and Jeff Stone -- Solidarity with migrant families at the border -- The Week of Action goes from Philadelphia schools to higher education : an interview with Dana Morrison / Dana Morrison -- The Black Lives Matter at School pedagogy : affirming Black lives, resisting neoliberal reform, and reimagining education for liberation / Denisha Jones -- Black Lives Matter at School Year of Purpose statement -- Not just in February! reflection questions to make Black Lives Matter every day in your classroom / Awo Okaikor Aryee-Price, Maria C. Fernandez, and Christopher Rogers -- Hire more Black teachers now : a research statement from Black Lives Matter at School and Journey for Justice -- They don't know the half / Kalani Rossman -- "Tearing it down and rebuilding" : an interview with student activist Marshé Doss / Marshé Doss -- Minneapolis public schools expel the police! an interview with student leader Nathaniel Genene / Nathaniel Genene -- "Living in a future of success" : an interview with student activist Israel Presley on organizing for the Lives Matter at School Week of Action / Israel Presley -- Students deserve : the organizing work of a grassroots coalition -- Montpelier High School Racial Justice Alliance / Statement to the school board -- "It will stay up until institutional racism is over" : raising the Black Lives matter flag at Montpelier High School ; an interview with student activist Noel Riby-Williams / Noel Riby-Williams -- Black Lives Matter Student Creative Challenge 2020 submissions -- Inequity and COVID-19 / Jesse Hagopian.