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Students Took a Stand – The 1968 Walkout at Edgewood

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In 1968, students at Edgewood High School in San Antonio walked out of class to demand something simple but powerful: fair schools. Their protest exposed deep inequities in school funding and became a spark for the broader fight for educational justice in Texas. IDRA created “The Edgewood Walkout of 1968” lesson set for third grade, eighth grade and high school to honor the courage of the 1968 walkouts and place them within the larger Chicano Movement when Mexican American students and communities across the country demanded respect for their culture, history and right to a quality education. These lessons are tools for teachers to bring this history into the classroom, not as a distant past, but as a living example of youth activism, community power and the ongoing struggle for justice in our schools. This third grade lesson includes the classroom lesson: Students Took a Stand – The 1968 Walkout at Edgewood; a project-based learning lesson: Classroom Mural Project – We Help Our School; student packet with a worksheet: Student Voice Analysis, a reading: The Brave Students of Edgewood – Edgewood Walkout 1968, quotes: In Their Own Words; and Edgewood Walkout 1968 Slide Deck. A project-based learning lesson, “Classroom Mural Project: We Help Our School,” is also available.
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