Massachusetts Teachers Association provides resources for educators that promote gender ideology and anti-Israel sentiment

The Massachusetts Teachers Association has lesson plans posted online for the public to access under the label “Anti-Oppression.” Several of the lesson plans are notable for pushing educators to teach controversial political ideology to students. One source on this page links to Learning for Justice from the Southern Poverty Law Center. Learning for Justice encourages educators to center the racial identity of students in their lessons.

The source “Rethinking Schools” links to a page with additional lesson plans titled “Teaching Palestine,” “Transgender Justice in Schools,” and “Teaching that Food Justice is Racial Justice.” The description for “Teaching Palestine” states that “it fills a huge gap in the school curriculum with regard to a hundred-year-old injustice in whose perpetuation the United States is deeply complicit.”

The description for “Transgender Justice in Schools” states that it “provides inspirational stories from trans students and educators and resources for teachers, students, and parents seeking to build communities where everyone flourishes.” The description for “Teaching that Food Justice is Racial Justice” states that students will “come away from our study of issues like the climate crisis, racial injustice, and food knowing that it’s possible to confront problems in meaningful ways that can make material differences in people’s lives within our communities.”

One resource from the MTA titled “Teaching Materials Archive INN Education Project” links directly to additional sources from the Zinn Education Project. The first source on this page is titled “Teaching Palestine-Israel from the Perspective of Civil Rights and Black Power Activists.” This source favorably compares the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States to opponents of Israel:

After all, the tear gas used on Palestinians in the Occupied Territories is made in the United States. This moment, and countless expressions of solidarity since, have reignited ties between the Black and Palestinian struggle for freedom.