Teach Truth Day of Action Event

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We invite educators, students, parents, and everyone else to rally across the country to defend the freedom to learn and the need to #TeachTruth.

Share your plans with us so that we can offer support and make sure your event is "on the map."

While most activities are on the annual day of action, you can choose to host an information table or mini-lesson anytime of the year -- including the upcoming Freedom to Read Day (Oct. 11) and No Kings (Oct. 18).

NOTE: While the supplies remain, we can materials to you if you provide all the details at least 7 days in advance.

First Name *

Last Name *

Email address *

City *

State *

Describe Your Group *

Some groups might fit in multiple categories. Select the option(s) that best describe your group.

No group, I am going as an individual

Educators from one school or district

Rethinking Schools subscriber

Teaching for Black Lives study group (via Zinn Education Project)

AFT Affiliate

NEA Affiliate

Other Union or Professional Association

Historic site or museum staff

Bookstore

Voting rights, climate justice, &/or LGBTQ+ rights organization

Student Organization

Red, Wine, & Blue member

Other (If other, please describe your group in the next field)

Other:

Required

Group Name

If your group has a name and/or you selected "Other" please describe below.

Teacher Union

Are you a member or affiliate of one of the following teacher unions or a local affiliate?

National Education Association (local or affiliate)

American Federation of Teachers (local or affiliate)

Not sure

Other:

Location *

Name and describe the site you have selected. It can be any public site -- such as a library, bookstore, farmers market, museum, city hall, union hall, or school board. Or it could be a historic site that symbolizes or reflects stories that are threatened by legislation or executive orders. For example, any site in Black, Latinx, Native American, Asian American history. Also, any site that addresses labor, climate justice, or LGBTQ history — or contemporary organizing — for any race/ethnicity.

Street Address of Location

If you have a location for your event, please include the street address here.

Type of Event *

What type of event are you planning? It could be a combination of the options below, or something else.

People's History Mini-Lesson

Rally

History Walking Tour

Information Table

Book Swap

Teach-in

Other:

Required

What kind of assistance might you need?

Once you confirm a day and location, we will provide a toolkit with media guidelines, sample signs, hashtags, and same social media posts. For information tables, we can also provide a #TeachTruth pop-up installation box, as long as you plan to use it at more events. For people's history mini-lessons, we will provide downloadable materials for a gallery walk and/or mixer lesson. Anything else you will need?

Postcards, buttons, and signs

Link for downloadable materials for a gallery walk and/or mixer lesson

#Teach Truth pop-up display (only if you can reuse at multiple events)

Other:

Donation

If you request a Teach Truth pop up display, let us know if you can contribute to the cost of shipping. It generally costs about $15. We would send you a link to make your tax deductible donation.

Yes, send me the link

With regrets, no

Other:

Size of Group *

About how many people do you expect to participate? (If it is an information table, just list how many people will staff the table.)

Collaborators *

Are you doing this in coordination with other groups? If so, list them here.

Experience *

Have you organized actions like this before?

This is my first time helping to organize an event like this

I've organized one other public event

I've got a lot of experience organizing events like this

Other:

Hosted a Teach Truth event before?

Have you hosted an event in a prior year? If you have #Teach Truth pop-up display box already from last year, please reuse it. We can replenish the give-away items such as postcards, bookmarks, and buttons. Check as many as apply.

Yes, I have hosted an event before

I still have my #Teach Truth pop-up display

Please send buttons, postcards, and signs

Other:

Is there a link to an announcement for your event and/or a description of the event?

Please provide a URL and/or description below.

Can we add the location of your event to a list on our website? *

We add all events to the site. However, for private events, we do not include the address.

Yes

Other:

What day and time is your event? *

Provide the day, the start and end time, and the time zone. Or note if still to be determined.

Cell phone number. *

This is helpful to reach event hosts with last minute updates and in case we get media inquiries. (We will check with you first before sharing with any media.)

Media Interviews

In addition to local media that we will help you reach out to for your event, we may get requests from national media to interview educators who are leading these days of action. If so, would you consider speaking with a national reporter? We would not connect you with media without checking with you first. This question is just to determine if it is even a possibility.

Yes, I am happy to speak with media about this issue

Maybe

With regrets, no

Other:

Clear selection

Report Back *

We ask everyone receiving materials to commit to report back after the event or table to let us know how it went, ideally with photos! We'll send you the form both before and after your event or table so you have it handy!

Yes, I commit to fill out the report back form

Required

Street Address

This is so that we can send you materials to distribute at your event. Note that we do not share addresses.

City

For mailing address.

State

For mailing address.

Zip

For mailing address.

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