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

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 pedagogical neutrality, and create spaces for dialogue, community, and healing.This timely, expanded edition addresses today’s sociopolitical climate-including guidance for navigating political pressure, misinformation, and the nationwide attacks on DEI and public education-when everyday feels like a day after. New to the Second Edition:Updated Narratives: New teacher and student reflections on international, national, state, and local events between 2021 and 2025, thus encapsulating teachers’ narratives about