Teaching on Days After: Educating for Equity in the Wake of Injustice

How can teachers support students on the days after major events, tragedies, and injustices?

In a time of escalating polarization, classrooms are deeply impacted by the news cycle. In this urgent and fully updated second edition, Alyssa Hadley Dunn provides a practical, humanizing framework for how K–12 educators can teach in the hours, days, and months after social and political crises.

Moving beyond “business as usual,” Dunn shows why teachers must center equity, reject claims of pedagogica...