Voting Rights Teaching Toolkits Reaching Classrooms Across the Country

Teachers around the country are requesting our Voting Rights Teaching Toolkit to help young people see voting as part of a broader effort to improve their lives and communities — and to see themselves as agents of change rather than spectators to politics. The National Education Association printed the lessons, voting rights organizations provided additional resources, and individual donors are contributing to the cost of postage. Our goal is to send at least 500 toolkits and reach all 50 states and territories. Your donation can make that possible. Each request for a toolkit includes a note about how or why the educator plans to teach about voting rights from September through the election. Here are a few responses: I want students to learn that voting is a right that many people gave their blood, sweat, and tears to earn and how we should honor their legacy through civic engagement. I want them to understand that they are an important part of upholding our multiracial democracy and be aware of the attacks on voting rights in recent years. — high school social studies teacher, Clayton, North Carolina I teach a class that is examining the health of our democracy. Free and fair elections play a huge part in allowing the government to work for the people. — middle and high school social studies teacher, Williamsville, New York My goal is to create a project based unit on youth civic engagement. I’m hoping students come up with inspirational projects they care about and will impact their communities for the better. — middle school social studies teacher, Olympia, Washington My goal is to contribute to a high level of urgency for students to register and vote in the November election. — high school social studies teacher, Meridian, Mississippi Each box includes:- “Who Gets to Vote? Teaching About the Struggle for Voting Rights in the United States” 3-lesson unit - “We the People” Constitution lesson - Constitution Gallery Walk - SNCC Legacy Project Voting Rights and Interpretive Booklet - Teach Banned History button - Teach Reconstruction report info postcard - “Teach. Vote. Resist. Organize” poster - “We the People By the People” poster from the NEA - Social Justice Books list on voting rights for grades pre-K–12 - Resources from ACLU, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Taskforce for Democracy, and more We need your help to send more voting rights teaching toolkits. Donate today to provide young people with the tools to defend voting rights. Twitter Google plus LinkedIn