With this text, educators and literacy professionals now have a roadmap to follow when preparing justice-oriented lessons for children in grades 4-12 classrooms. The authors of this text do an amazing job of making abstract concepts related to social justice into practical, inquiry-based instruction.

Tiffany A. Flowers, PhD, assistant professor of education, Georgia State University Perimeter College

When you are ready, the beautiful work awaits you...Fill yourself with inspiration, tune out the noise, and remember that you and your students are powerful and unstoppable.

Isabel Morales, EdD, award-winning secondary social studies educator; named teacher of the year by the Los Angeles Unified School District and the Los Angeles County Office of Education

For social studies educators, it's past time to reconsider whose lives are given space in the histories, geographies, civics, and economics we teach in our classrooms. In each chapter of Engage and Empower: Expanding the Curriculum for Justice and Activism, teacher-researchers draw from their lived experiences to provide a curriculum that unapologetically centers students who've been pushed to the margins. This book is a starter kit for emancipatory educators.

Daniel G. Krutka, Associate Professor of social studies education, University of North Texas; chair, Social Studies Research SIG of the American Educational Research Association